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Drug Repurposing Hypothesis Generation Using the "RE:fine Drugs" System
Published on: December 11, 2016
COVID-19: Analysis of Drug Repositioning Practice
P I Savosina1, D S Druzhilovskii1, V V Poroikov1
1V. N. Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, 10/7 Pogodinskaya St., Moscow, 119121 Russia.
Abstract:
An outbreak of a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China in December 2019 became the epicenter for the spread of a global pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a cascade of respiratory diseases similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Currently, there is no effective, specific, and safe treatment for COVID-19 to suppress the virus in the human body. The present study searched for pharmacological substances with antiviral activity for possible drug repositioning based on experimental and theoretical information in a series of publications on in vitro assays of agents against SARS-CoV-2. An analysis identified 46 well-known pharmaceutical substances that could be used for drug repositioning to create a therapy for COVID-19.
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