Drug Repositioning
"Drug Repositioning" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The deliberate and methodical practice of finding new applications for existing drugs.
| Descriptor ID |
D058492
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.295.875
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Repositioning" by people in Profiles.
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Parrales A, McDonald P, Ottomeyer M, Roy A, Shoenen FJ, Broward M, Bruns T, Thamm DH, Weir SJ, Neville KA, Iwakuma T, Fulbright JM. Comparative oncology approach to drug repurposing in osteosarcoma. PLoS One. 2018; 13(3):e0194224.
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Shakhnovich V. It's Time to Reverse our Thinking: The Reverse Translation Research Paradigm. Clin Transl Sci. 2018 03; 11(2):98-99.
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Cheung WA, Ouellette BF, Wasserman WW. Compensating for literature annotation bias when predicting novel drug-disease relationships through Medical Subject Heading Over-representation Profile (MeSHOP) similarity. BMC Med Genomics. 2013; 6 Suppl 2:S3.