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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2025

Anti-inflammatory drugs as potential antimicrobial agents: a review.

Onyedika Emmanuel Okpala, Johana Rondevaldova, Ladislav Kokoska

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Problems associated with the ATC system of drug classification.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026
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  6. Trends and Impact ofGastroenterology research · 2026
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  8. The anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib is metabolized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa CYP107S1 in vitro and in vivo.Drug metabolism and disposition: the biological fate of chemicals · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Onyedika Emmanuel OkpalaDepartment of Crop Sciences and Agroforestry, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia.
Johana RondevaldovaDepartment of Crop Sciences and Agroforestry, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia.
Ladislav KokoskaDepartment of Crop Sciences and Agroforestry, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The association and causal role of infectious agents in chronic inflammatory diseases have major implications for public health, treatment, and prevention. Pharmacological treatment of combined infectious and inflammatory diseases requires the administration of multiple drugs, including antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs. However, this can cause adverse effects, and therefore, dual-action drugs need to be developed. Anti-inflammatory drugs that have already shown antimicrobial properties appear to be promising candidates. NSAIDs, namely aceclofenac, diclofenac, and ibuprofen, were tested in clinical trials with patients diagnosed with uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) and cellulitis. The administration of ibuprofen, a drug tested in the highest number of studies, resulted in symptom resolution in patients with UTIs. Additionally, ibuprofen caused a high survival rate in mice infected with

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bacterial infectioncellulitiscystitisdual-action drugsinflammationosteomyelitisseptic arthritissingle-drug therapy

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PMID40264668
PMCPMC12011823

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