[HTML][HTML] Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Z Zhang, L Zhou, N Xie, EC Nice, T Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ever present hurdles for the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy have necessitated
the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the development of old …

An overview of drug discovery and development

N Berdigaliyev, M Aljofan - Future medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A new medicine will take an average of 10–15 years and more than US $2 billion before it
can reach the pharmacy shelf. Traditionally, drug discovery relied on natural products as the …

Drug repurposing in cancer

L Sleire, HE Førde, IA Netland, L Leiss, BS Skeie… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer is a major health issue worldwide, and the global burden of cancer is expected to
increase in the coming years. Whereas the limited success with current therapies has driven …

Drug combination therapy increases successful drug repositioning

W Sun, PE Sanderson, W Zheng - Drug discovery today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Publications for drug repositioning have drastically increased in past five
years.•Different types of drug repositioning and available resources have been …

Genetic and pharmacological disruption of the TEAD–YAP complex suppresses the oncogenic activity of YAP

Y Liu-Chittenden, B Huang, JS Shim… - Genes & …, 2012 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The Drosophila TEAD ortholog Scalloped is required for Yki-mediated overgrowth but is
largely dispensable for normal tissue growth, suggesting that its mammalian counterpart …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing drugs in oncology (ReDO)—Cimetidine as an anti-cancer agent

P Pantziarka, G Bouche, L Meheus… - …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cimetidine, the first H 2 receptor antagonist in widespread clinical use, has anti-cancer
properties that have been elucidated in a broad range of pre-clinical and clinical studies for …

[HTML][HTML] Itraconazole and arsenic trioxide inhibit Hedgehog pathway activation and tumor growth associated with acquired resistance to smoothened antagonists

J Kim, BT Aftab, JY Tang, D Kim, AH Lee, M Rezaee… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
Recognition of the multiple roles of Hedgehog signaling in cancer has prompted intensive
efforts to develop targeted pathway inhibitors. Leading inhibitors in clinical development act …

Digoxin and other cardiac glycosides inhibit HIF-1α synthesis and block tumor growth

H Zhang, DZ Qian, YS Tan, KA Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
A library of drugs that are in clinical trials or use was screened for inhibitors of hypoxia-
inducible factor 1 (HIF-1). Twenty drugs inhibited HIF-1-dependent gene transcription by> …

[HTML][HTML] An update on Drug Repurposing: Re-written saga of the drug's fate

HS Gns, GR Saraswathy, M Murahari… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drug repurposing is an unconventional drug discovery approach to explore new therapeutic
benefits of existing, shelved and the drugs in clinical trials. This approach is currently …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in drug repositioning for the discovery of new anticancer drugs

JS Shim, JO Liu - International journal of biological sciences, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drug repositioning (also referred to as drug repurposing), the process of finding new uses of
existing drugs, has been gaining popularity in recent years. The availability of several …