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DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages 1398-1406Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2015.06.012
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- Else Kroner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS)
- Research Training Group Translational Research Innovation - Pharma (TRIP)
- Landesoffensive zur Entwicklung wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz (LOEWE, J.L.), Schwerpunkt: Anwendungsorientierte Arzneimittelforschung
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The complexity of the sense of smell makes adverse olfactory effects of drugs highly likely, which can impact a patient's quality of life. Here, we present a bioinformatics approach that identifies drugs with potential olfactory effects by connecting drug target expression patterns in human olfactory tissue with drug-related information and the underlying molecular drug targets taken from publically available databases. We identified 71 drugs with listed olfactory effects and 147 different targets. Taking the target-based approach further, we found additional drugs with potential olfactory effects, including 152 different substances interacting with genes expressed in the human olfactory bulb. Our proposed bioinformatics approach provides plausible hypotheses about mechanistic drug effects for drug discovery and repurposing and, thus, would be appropriate for use during drug development.
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