How Can Network-Pharmacology Contribute to Antiepileptic Drug Development?

Network-pharmacology is a field of pharmacology emerging from the observation that most clinical drugs have multiple targets, contrasting with the previously dominant <i>magic bullet</i> paradigm which proposed the search of exquisitely selective drugs. What is more, drug targets are oft...

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Autores: Di Ianni, Mauricio Emiliano, Talevi, Alan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/102558
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/102558
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Exactas
Química
Biología
Drug-protein networks
Network analysis
Epilepsy
Drug repositioning
Drug repurposing
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Sumario:Network-pharmacology is a field of pharmacology emerging from the observation that most clinical drugs have multiple targets, contrasting with the previously dominant <i>magic bullet</i> paradigm which proposed the search of exquisitely selective drugs. What is more, drug targets are often involved in multiple diseases and frequently present co-expression patterns. Therefore, useful therapeutic information can be drawn from network representations of drug targets. Here, we discuss potential applications of drug-target networks in the field of antiepileptic drug development.