Current state and future perspective of drug repurposing in malignant glioma

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Malignant gliomas are still extremely difficult to treat because complete surgical resection is biologically not feasible due to the invasive nature of these diseases and the proximity of tumors to functionally sensitive areas. Moreover, adjuvant therapies are facing a strong therapeutic resistance since the central nervous system is a highly protected environment and the tumor cells display a vast intra-tumoral genetic and epigenetic variation. As a consequence, new therapeutics are urgently needed but the process of developing novel compounds that finally reach clinical application is highly time-consuming and expensive. Drug repurposing is an approach to facilitate and accelerate the discovery of new cancer treatments. In malignant glioma, like in other cancers, pre-existing physiological pathways that regulate cell growth, cell death or cell migration are dysregulated causing malignant transformation. A wide variety of drugs are clinically used to treat non-cancerous diseases interfering with these malignancy-associated pathways. Repurposed drugs have key advantages: They already have approval for clinical use by national regulatory authorities. Moreover, they are for the most part inexpensive and their side effect and safety profiles are well characterized. In this work, we provide an overview on current repurposing strategies for the treatment of malignant glioma.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:68

Enthalten in:

Seminars in cancer biology - 68(2021) vom: 20. Jan., Seite 92-104

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Siegelin, Markus David [VerfasserIn]
Schneider, Elisabeth [VerfasserIn]
Westhoff, Mike-Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Wirtz, Christian Rainer [VerfasserIn]
Karpel-Massler, Georg [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents
Drug cocktail
Drug repurposing
Glioblastoma
Journal Article
Malignant glioma
Multi-targeting
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.02.2022

Date Revised 28.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.10.018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM303373245