Drug repositioning: identifying and developing new uses for existing drugs
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Leading candidate repositionable drugs are already approved or have been through several stages of clinical development, so their pharmacological properties and safety in humans are already established.
“One of the distinct advantages of repurposing is the fact that the leading candidate repositionable drugs are already approved or at the very least have been through several stages of clinical development, and therefore the pharmacological properties of these drugs, and their safety in humans are already established [63,64].”
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- Authors
- Ashburn, T. T., & Thor, K. B.
- Corresponding author
- Ashburn, Ted T.
- ORCID
- Thor, Karl B.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Published
- 2004-08
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 673-683
- ISSN
- 1474-1776 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-1784
- OpenAlex
- W2062941476
- Cited by
- 3,237
- References
- 16
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- FWCI
- 0.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Keywords
- drug repurposing, new therapeutic indications, biotechnology companies
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Pharmacokinetics, Technology, Pharmaceutical, Therapeutic Equivalency, Drug Design, Drug Delivery Systems
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