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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Prediction of multidimensional drug dose responses based on measurements of drug pairs.

Anat Zimmer, Itay Katzir, Erez Dekel, Avraham E Mayo, Uri Alon

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Anat ZimmerDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Itay KatzirDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Erez DekelDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Avraham E MayoDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-4479-3423
Uri AlonDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel uri.alon@weizmann.ac.il.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Finding potent multidrug combinations against cancer and infections is a pressing therapeutic challenge; however, screening all combinations is difficult because the number of experiments grows exponentially with the number of drugs and doses. To address this, we present a mathematical model that predicts the effects of three or more antibiotics or anticancer drugs at all doses based only on measurements of drug pairs at a few doses, without need for mechanistic information. The model provides accurate predictions on available data for antibiotic combinations, and on experiments presented here on the response matrix of three cancer drugs at eight doses per drug. This approach offers a way to search for effective multidrug combinations using a small number of experiments.

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Models, TheoreticalAntineoplastic AgentsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsHumansNeoplasmsAntineoplastic Agentscancer treatmentdrug cocktailsdrug combinationsmechanism-free formulapredictive formula

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PMID27562164
PMCPMC5027409

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