Article ; Online: Old Drugs for a New Virus: Repurposed Approaches for Combating COVID-19.
ACS infectious diseases
2020 Volume 6, Issue 9, Page(s) 2304–2318
Abstract: There is a large global unmet need for effective countermeasures to combat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The development of novel antiviral drugs is expensive and ...
Abstract | There is a large global unmet need for effective countermeasures to combat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The development of novel antiviral drugs is expensive and too slow to meet the immediate need. The repurposing of drugs that are approved or are under advanced clinical investigation provides a cost- and time-effective therapeutic solution. This review summarizes the major repurposed approaches that have been proposed or are already being studied in clinical trials for COVID-19. Among these approaches are drugs that aim to reduce SARS-CoV-2 replication by targeting either viral enzymatic functions or cellular factors required for the viral life cycle. Drugs that modulate the host immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection by boosting it to enhance viral clearance or by suppressing it to prevent excessive inflammation and tissue injury represent another category. Lastly, we discuss means to discover repurposed drugs and the ongoing challenges associated with the off-label use of existing drugs in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Anti-Inflammatory Agents/therapeutic use ; Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use ; Betacoronavirus/drug effects ; Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/drug therapy ; Coronavirus Infections/immunology ; Coronavirus Infections/virology ; Drug Repositioning ; Humans ; Inflammation/immunology ; Inflammation/prevention & control ; Inflammation/virology ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/drug therapy ; Pneumonia, Viral/immunology ; Pneumonia, Viral/virology ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Virus Replication/drug effects |
Chemical Substances | Anti-Inflammatory Agents ; Antiviral Agents |
Keywords | covid19 |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2020-08-10 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review |
ISSN | 2373-8227 |
ISSN (online) | 2373-8227 |
DOI | 10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00343 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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