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ArticleVirus research2020

Transcription-based drug repurposing for COVID-19.

Richard Killick, Clive Ballard, Patrick Doherty, Gareth Williams

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Article in Virus research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Drug repurposing strategies of relevance for Parkinson's disease.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Richard KillickMaurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, King's College London, UK.
Clive BallardUniversity of Exeter Medical School, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, UK.
Patrick DohertyWolfson Centre for Age-related Diseases, King's College London, UK.
Gareth WilliamsWolfson Centre for Age-related Diseases, King's College London, UK. Electronic address: gareth.2.williams@kcl.ac.uk.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have utilised the transcriptional response of lung epithelial cells following infection by the original Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS) to identify repurposable drugs for COVID-19. Drugs best able to recapitulate the infection profile are highly enriched for antiviral activity. Nine of these have been tested against SARS-2 and found to potently antagonise SARS-2 infection/replication, with a number now being considered for clinical trials. It is hoped that this approach may serve to broaden the spectrum of approved drugs that should be further assessed as potential anti-COVID-19 agents and may help elucidate how this seemingly disparate collection of drugs are able to inhibit SARS-2 infection/replication.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentDrug RepositioningAntiviral AgentsCOVID-19Epithelial CellsGene Expression ProfilingHumansLungSARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusTranscriptomeAntiviral AgentsCOVID-19Gene expressionRepurposing

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PMID32987033
PMCPMC7518800

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