Prediction and Demonstration of Retinoic Acid Receptor Agonist Ch55 as an Antifibrotic Agent in the Dermis.

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of fibrotic diseases and the lack of pharmacologic modalities to effectively treat them impart particular importance to the discovery of novel antifibrotic therapies. The repurposing of drugs with existing mechanisms of action and/or clinical data is a promising approach for the treatment of fibrotic diseases. One paradigm that pervades all fibrotic diseases is the pathological myofibroblast, a collagen-secreting, contractile mesenchymal cell that is responsible for the deposition of fibrotic tissue. In this study, we use a gene expression paradigm characteristic of activated myofibroblasts in combination with the Connectivity Map to select compounds that are predicted to reverse the pathological gene expression signature associated with the myofibroblast and thus contain th

SUBMITTER: Dolivo DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10432574 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature