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| Title |
Drug repositioning as a route to anti-malarial drug discovery: preliminary investigation of the in vitro anti-malarial efficacy of emetine dihydrochloride hydrate
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-12-359 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Holly Matthews, Maryam Usman-Idris, Farid Khan, Martin Read, Niroshini Nirmalan |
| Abstract |
Drug repurposing or repositioning refers to the usage of existing drugs in diseases other than those it was originally used for. For diseases like malaria, where there is an urgent need for active drug candidates, the strategy offers a route to significantly shorten the traditional drug development pipelines. Preliminary high-throughput screens on patent expired drug libraries have recently been carried out for Plasmodium falciparum. This study reports the systematic and objective further interrogation of selected compounds reported in these studies, to enable their repositioning as novel stand-alone anti-malarials or as combinatorial partners. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 17% |
| Myanmar | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 3 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 33% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Ghana | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 25% |
| Researcher | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 16% |
| Unknown | 12 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 12 | 16% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 15% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 9 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 15 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2014.
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#7,376,686
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Outputs from Malaria Journal
#2,382
of 5,549 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69,533
of 209,651 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#42
of 88 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,725,280 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,549 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its peers.
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