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CNS repurposing - Potential new uses for old drugs: Examples of screens for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spasticity

Parsons, Chris G.·2019·Neuropharmacology

Abstract

Drug repurposing is recently gaining increasing attention, not just from pharmaceutical companies but also from government agencies in an attempt to generate new medications to address increasing unmet medical needs in a cost effective and expedite manner. There are several approaches to identify novel indications for known drugs. Many are based on rational selection e.g. the known or a new mechanism of action of a drug. This review will focus rather on phenotypic or high content screening of compounds in models that are believed to be predictive of effectiveness of compounds irrespective of their mechanism of action. Three short cases studies of screens for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spasticity will be given as examples. This article is part of the Special Issue entitled 'Drug Repurposing: old molecules, new ways to fast track drug discovery and development for CNS disorders'.

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Authors
Parsons, C. G.
Affiliations
Merz (Germany) (DE)
Corresponding author
Parsons, Chris G.
Venue
Neuropharmacology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-03
Volume
147
Pages
4-10
ISSN
0028-3908 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2888880555
Cited by
22
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 2
FWCI
0.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neuropharmacology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Keywords
drug repurposing, phenotypic screening, high-content screening, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, spasticity, central nervous system disorders
MeSH terms
Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Humans, Muscle Spasticity, Parkinson Disease, Drug Discovery, Drug Repositioning

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