Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Mahadeo Sukhai
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2352 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

Blood 20100326 23
On-patent and off-patent drugs with previously unrecognized anticancer activity could be rapidly repurposed for this new indication given their prior toxicity testing. To identify such compounds, we conducted chemical screens and identified the antihelmintic flubendazole. Flubendazole induced cell death in leukemia and myeloma cell lines and primary patient samples at nanomolar concentrations. Moreover, it delayed tumor growth in leukemia and myeloma xenografts without evidence of toxicity. Mech ...[more]