Drug repurposing strategies and key challenges for COVID-19 management

COVID-19 is a clinical outcome of viral infection emerged due to strain of beta coronavirus which attacks the type-2 pneumocytes in alveoli via angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors. There is no satisfactory drug developed against 'SARS-CoV2', highlighting an immediate necessity chemotherapeutic repurposing plan COVID-19. Drug repurposing is a method of selection of approved therapeutics for new use and is considered to be the most effective drug finding strategy since it includes less time and cost to obtain treatment compared to the de novo drug acquisition process. Several drugs such as hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, teicoplanin, darunavir, ritonavir, nitazoxanide, chloroquine, tocilizumab and favipiravir (FPV) showed their activity against 'SARS-CoV2' in vitro. This review has emphasized on repurposing of drugs, and biologics used in clinical set up for targeting COVID-19 and to evaluate their pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and safety with their future aspect. The key benefit of drug repurposing is the wealth of information related to its safety, and easy accessibility. Altogether repurposing approach allows access to regulatory approval as well as reducing sophisticated safety studies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Journal of drug targeting - 30(2022), 4 vom: 07. Apr., Seite 413-429

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mule, Shubham [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Ajit [VerfasserIn]
Greish, Khaled [VerfasserIn]
Sahebkar, Amirhossein [VerfasserIn]
Kesharwani, Prashant [VerfasserIn]
Shukla, Rahul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral Agents
Clinical trials
Drug repurposing
Drug targets
Journal Article
Pathophysiology
Review
SARS-CoV2

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Date Completed 25.03.2022

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/1061186X.2021.2013852

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM333911849