Repurposing Potential of the Antiparasitic Agent Ivermectin for the Treatment and/or Prophylaxis of COVID-19

H Awad, B Hassan, S Dweek, Y Aboelata… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the rapid, vast, and emerging global spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic, many drugs were quickly repurposed in a desperate attempt to …

Manipulation of spray-drying conditions to develop an inhalable ivermectin dry powder

T Saha, S Sinha, R Harfoot, ME Quiñones-Mateu… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, predominantly affects the respiratory tract.
As a consequence, it seems intuitive to develop antiviral agents capable of targeting the …

Pharmacokinetics and safety of inhaled ivermectin in mice as a potential COVID-19 treatment

AH Albariqi, Y Wang, RYK Chang, DH Quan… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pharmacokinetic limitations associated with oral ivermectin may limit its success as a
potential COVID-19 treatment based on in vitro experiments which demonstrate antiviral …

Low selectivity indices of ivermectin and macrocyclic lactones on SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro

C Chable-Bessia, C Boullé, A Neyret, J Swain… - Covid, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ivermectin was first approved for human use as an endectocide in the 1980s. It remains one
of the most important global health medicines in history and has recently been shown to …

The investigation of the complex population-drug-drug interaction between ritonavir-boosted lopinavir and chloroquine or ivermectin using physiologically-based …

MM Alsmadi - Drug Metabolism and Personalized Therapy, 2023 - degruyter.com
Objectives Therapy failure caused by complex population-drug-drug (PDDI) interactions
including CYP3A4 can be predicted using mechanistic physiologically-based …

Antiparasitic drugs against SARS-CoV-2: a comprehensive literature survey

E Calvo-Alvarez, M Dolci, F Perego, L Signorini… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
More than two years have passed since the viral outbreak that led to the novel infectious
respiratory disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Since then, the …

Ivermectin does not protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Syrian hamster model

CS Foo, R Abdelnabi, L Vangeel, S De Jonghe… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ivermectin, an FDA-approved antiparasitic drug, has been reported to have in vitro activity
against SARS-CoV-2. Increased off-label use of ivermectin for COVID-19 has been reported …

[HTML][HTML] Nonspecific membrane bilayer perturbations by ivermectin underlie SARS-CoV-2 in vitro activity

RT Eastman, R Rusinova, KF Herold, XP Huang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since it was proposed as a potential host-directed antiviral agent for SARS-CoV-2, the
antiparasitic drug ivermectin has been investigated thoroughly in clinical trials, which have …

Repurposing Selamectin as an Antimicrobial Drug against Hospital-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus Infections

V Folliero, F Dell'Annunziata, B Santella, E Roscetto… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The emergence of multidrug-resistant strains requires the urgent discovery of new
antibacterial drugs. In this context, an antibacterial screening of a subset of anthelmintic …

Biophysical Analysis of Potential Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 Cell Recognition and Their Effect on Viral Dynamics in Different Cell Types: A Computational Prediction …

L González-Paz, C Lossada, ML Hurtado-León… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recent reports have suggested that the susceptibility of cells to SARS-CoV-2 infection can
be influenced by various proteins that potentially act as receptors for the virus. To investigate …