Quantitative High-Throughput Drug Screening Identifies Novel Classes of Drugs with Anticancer Activity in Thyroid Cancer Cells: Opportunities for Repurposing
Author(s) -
Lisa Zhang,
Mei He,
Ya-Qin Zhang,
Naris Nilubol,
Min Shen,
Electron Kebebew
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2011-2671
Subject(s) - drug repositioning , repurposing , drug , cancer , drug discovery , thyroid cancer , pharmacology , computational biology , high throughput screening , cancer drugs , thyroid , throughput , medicine , biology , bioinformatics , computer science , ecology , telecommunications , wireless
Despite increased understanding of the pathogenesis and targets for thyroid cancer and other cancers, developing a new anticancer chemical agent remains an expensive and long process. An alternative approach is the exploitation of clinically used and/or bioactive compounds.
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