Drug repurposing involves finding new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, including marketed, discontinued, shelved, and investigational drugs. The advantages of this strategy are many: reduced drug development timeline, ...

Drug repurposing(or repositioning) implies finding new therapeutic indications for existingdrugs (including approved, failed, discontinued and experimental drugs), andrepresents a substantial percentage of recent drug ...

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, prioritizing the immunity enhancers is equally important to anti-virals. Defensins are the forgotten molecules that enhance the innate immunity against various microbes. Although macrolides ...

Introduction: The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in disastrous human and economic costs, mainly due to the absence of specific treatments to ameliorate the effects of this emerging viral disease. Complementary to ...

Chagas´ disease continues to be a challenging and neglected public health problem in many American countries. The etiologic agent, Trypanosoma cruzi, develops intracellularly in the mammalian host, which hinders treatment ...

Background:A novel corona virus-2 disease has spread to 213 countries and territories across the globe. The corona pandemic has claimed more than 548,934 deaths worldwide till the evening of 8 th of July 2020 and the ...