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CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets

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ISSN (Print): 1871-5273
ISSN (Online): 1996-3181

Review Article

Revolutionising Neurological Therapeutics: Investigating Drug Repurposing Strategies

Author(s): Meenakshi Attri, Asha Raghav* and Jyoti Sinha

Volume 24, Issue 2, 2025

Published on: 25 September, 2024

Page: [115 - 131] Pages: 17

DOI: 10.2174/0118715273329531240911075309

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Abstract

Repurposing drugs (DR) has become a viable approach to hasten the search for cures for neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). This review examines different off-target and on-target drug discovery techniques and how they might be used to find possible treatments for non-diagnostic depressions. Off-target strategies look at the known or unknown side effects of currently approved drugs for repositioning, whereas on-target strategies connect disease pathways to targets that can be treated with drugs. The review highlights the potential of experimental and computational methodologies, such as machine learning, proteomic techniques, network and genomics-based approaches, and in silico screening, in uncovering new drug-disease correlations. It also looks at difficulties and failed attempts at drug repurposing for NDs, highlighting the necessity of exact and standardised procedures to increase success rates. This review's objectives are to address the purpose of drug repurposing in human disorders, particularly neurological diseases, and to provide an overview of repurposing candidates that are presently undergoing clinical trials for neurological conditions, along with any possible causes and early findings. We then include a list of drug repurposing strategies, restrictions, and difficulties for upcoming research.

Keywords: Drug Repurposing, neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), experiment-based, computational method, in-silico based method, network-based method, genomics-based method, artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning.


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