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ArticleScientific reports2018

CISNE: An accurate description of dose-effect and synergism in combination therapies.

Amador García-Fuente, Fernando Vázquez, José M Viéitez, Francisco J García Alonso, José I Martín, Jaime Ferrer

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Amador García-FuenteDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, E-33007, Spain. garciaamador@uniovi.es.
Fernando VázquezDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, E-33007, Spain.
José M ViéitezDepartamento de Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, E-33011, Spain.
Francisco J García AlonsoDepartamento de Química Orgánica e Inorgánica, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, E-33006, Spain.
José I MartínDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, E-33007, Spain.
Jaime FerrerDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, E-33007, Spain.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The precise determination of dose-effect curves and the combination effect of drugs is of crucial importance in the development of new therapies for the most dreadful diseases. We have found that the current implementations of the theory of Chou et al. are not accurate enough in some circumstances and might lead to erroneous predictions of synergistic or antagonistic behaviour. We have identified the source of inaccuracies and fixed it thereby improving the accuracy of those methods. Here we explain the main features of our approach and demonstrate its higher accuracy as compared to the standard methods. Therefore, this new implementation might have a huge impact in the reliability of future research on new Combination Therapies.

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Dose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug Therapy, CombinationModels, BiologicalSoftwareComputational BiologyData Interpretation, StatisticalDrug InteractionsDrug SynergismFalse Negative ReactionsFalse Positive ReactionsPharmaceutical ResearchReproducibility of ResultsUncertainty

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PMID29563526
PMCPMC5862869

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