 Drug Repositioning
"Drug Repositioning" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The deliberate and methodical practice of finding new applications for existing drugs.
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D058492
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.295.875
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Repositioning" by people in Profiles.
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Lee ATJ, Huang PH, Pollack SM, Jones RL. Drug repositioning in sarcomas and other rare tumors. EBioMedicine. 2016 Apr; 6:4-5.
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Bulman CA, Bidlow CM, Lustigman S, Cho-Ngwa F, Williams D, Rascón AA, Tricoche N, Samje M, Bell A, Suzuki B, Lim KC, Supakorndej N, Supakorndej P, Wolfe AR, Knudsen GM, Chen S, Wilson C, Ang KH, Arkin M, Gut J, Franklin C, Marcellino C, McKerrow JH, Debnath A, Sakanari JA. Repurposing auranofin as a lead candidate for treatment of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Feb; 9(2):e0003534.
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