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An Innovative Drug Repurposing Approach to Restrain Endometrial Cancer Metastatization.

Federica Torricelli, Elisabetta Sauta, Veronica Manicardi, Vincenzo Dario Mandato, Andrea Palicelli, Alessia Ciarrocchi, Gloria Manzotti

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Article in Cells, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Searching the druggable genome using large language models.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  2. Searching the Druggable Genome using Large Language Models.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Federica TorricelliLaboratory of Translational Research, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Elisabetta SautaLaboratory of Translational Research, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7830-988X
Veronica ManicardiLaboratory of Translational Research, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2490-7283
Vincenzo Dario MandatoUnit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6537-1046
Andrea PalicelliPathology Unit, Department of Oncology and Advanced Technologies, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2299-5160
Alessia CiarrocchiLaboratory of Translational Research, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5541-2075
Gloria ManzottiLaboratory of Translational Research, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0639-3605
Azienda Sanitaria Unità Locale di Reggio Emilia · ITUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia · ITUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEndometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecologic tumor and the world's fourth most common cancer in women. Most patients respond to first-line treatments and have a low risk of recurrence, but refractory patients, and those with metastatic cancer at diagnosis, remain with no treatment options. Drug repurposing aims to discover new clinical indications for existing drugs with known safety profiles. It provides ready-to-use new therapeutic options for highly aggressive tumors for which standard protocols are ineffective, such as high-risk EC.

methodsHere, we aimed at defining new therapeutic opportunities for high-risk EC using an innovative and integrated computational drug repurposing approach.

resultsWe compared gene-expression profiles, from publicly available databases, of metastatic and non-metastatic EC patients being metastatization the most severe feature of EC aggressiveness. A comprehensive analysis of transcriptomic data through a two-arm approach was applied to obtain a robust prediction of drug candidates.

conclusionsSome of the identified therapeutic agents are already successfully used in clinical practice to treat other types of tumors. This highlights the potential to repurpose them for EC and, therefore, the reliability of the proposed approach.

Indexed as

Drug RepositioningEndometrial NeoplasmsFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansReproducibility of ResultsTranscriptomedrug repurposingendometrial cancergene expressionmetastasisPI3K pathway

Identifiers

PMID36899930
PMCPMC10001006
OpenAlexW4323046243

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