Challenges for Drug Repurposing in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Copyright © 2020 Sultana, Crisafulli, Gabbay, Lynn, Shakir and Trifirò..

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected an estimated 16 million persons and caused 0.6 million deaths worldwide by September 2020. The pandemic has led to a rush to repurpose existing drugs, although the underlying evidence base is of variable quality. The improving knowledge of the virology and clinical presentation of COVID-19 is leading to a broadening pool of potential pharmacological targets. The aim of this review is to describe regulatory and pharmacological aspects of drug repurposing and to identify drugs proposed for repurposing in COVID-19 based on registered clinical trials, discussing the evidence to support their use in the treatment of this disease. The challenges of the correct interpretation of existing pre-clinical/clinical evidence as well as the generation of new evidence concerning drug repurposing in COVID-19 will also be discussed. Clinical Trial Registration: https://clinicaltrials.gov, identifier NCT04321174, NCT04342663, NCT04280705, NCT04244591, NCT04359329, NCT04348695, NCT04304313, NCT043505931.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in pharmacology - 11(2020) vom: 30., Seite 588654

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sultana, Janet [VerfasserIn]
Crisafulli, Salvatore [VerfasserIn]
Gabbay, Flic [VerfasserIn]
Lynn, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
Shakir, Saad [VerfasserIn]
Trifirò, Gianluca [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus
Drug repositioning
Drug repurposing
Journal Article
Pandemic
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04244591, NCT04280705, NCT04304313, NCT04348695, NCT04359329, NCT04342663, NCT04321174

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fphar.2020.588654

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318066661