ReviewJournal, genetic engineering & biotechnology2022
A review on drug repurposing in COVID-19: from antiviral drugs to herbal alternatives.
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- Leveraging ADMET Profiling, Network Pharmacology, and Molecular Docking to Evaluate the Repurposing of Product Nkabinde for COVID-19 Treatment.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Post-marketing surveillance study on the effectiveness and safety of molnupiravir in high-risk COVID-19 outpatients: a prospective case series study.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2025Article
- Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of 5,8-Dimethyl Shikonin Oximes as SARS-CoV-2 MMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Discovery of a novel inhibitor of macropinocytosis with antiviral activity.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024Article
- Beyond Psychotropic: Potential Repurposing of Fluoxetine toward Cancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Potential Inhibitors of Lumpy Skin Disease's Viral Protein (DNA Polymerase): A Combination of Bioinformatics Approaches.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- An Overview of Repurposed Drugs for Potential COVID-19 Treatment.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Discovery of Quinacrine as a Potent Topo II and Hsp90 Dual-Target Inhibitor, Repurposing for Cancer Therapy.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundCOVID-19 is an illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Due to its rapid spread, in March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared pandemic. Since the outbreak of pandemic many governments, scientists, and institutions started to work on new vaccines and finding of new and repurposing drugs. Drug repurposing is an excellent option for discovery of already used drugs, effective against COVID-19, lowering the cost of production, and shortening the period of delivery, especially when preclinical safety studies have already been performed. There are many approved drugs that showed significant results against COVID-19, like ivermectin and hydrochloroquine, including alternative treatment options against COVID-19, utilizing herbal medicine. SHORT
conclusionThis article summarized 11 repurposing drugs, their positive and negative health implications, along with traditional herbal alternatives, that harvest strong potential in efficient treatments options against COVID-19, with small or no significant side effects. Out of 11 repurposing drugs, four drugs are in status of emergency approval, most of them being in phase IV clinical trials. The first repurposing drug approved for clinical usage is remdesivir, whereas chloroquine and hydrochloroquine approval for emergency use was revoked by FDA for COVID-19 treatment in June 2020.
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