Systems pharmacology strategies for drug discovery and combination with applications to cardiovascular diseases
Systems pharmacology strategies for drug discovery and combination with applications to cardiovascular diseases
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药物发现和组合的系统药理学策略及其在心血管疾病中的应用
DOI:
10.1016/j.jep.2013.07.001
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发表时间:
2014-01-10
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Yang, Ling
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作者:
Li, Peng;Chen, Jianxin;Yang, Ling
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Multi-target therapeutics is a promising paradigm for drug discovery which is expected to produce greater levels of efficacy with fewer adverse effects and toxicity than monotherapies. Medical herbs featuring multi-components and multi-targets may serve as valuable resources for network-based multi-target drug discovery.Materials and methods: In this study, we report an integrated systems pharmacology platform for drug discovery and combination, with a typical example applied to herbal medicines in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.Results: First, a disease-specific drug-target network was constructed and examined at systems level to capture the key disease-relevant biology for discovery of multi-targeted agents. Second, considering an integration of disease complexity and multilevel connectivity, a comprehensive database of literature-reported associations, chemicals and pharmacology for herbal medicines was designed. Third, a large-scale systematic analysis combining pharmacokinetics, chemogenomics, pharmacology and systems biology data through computational methods was performed and validated experimentally, which results in a superior output of information for systematic drug design strategies for complex diseases.Conclusions: This strategy integrating different types of technologies is expected to help create new opportunities for drug discovery and combination. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.