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Drug repositioning for orphan diseases

Drug repositioning for orphan diseases

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Drug repositioning for orphan diseases

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Full title

Drug repositioning for orphan diseases

Publisher

England: Oxford University Press

Journal title

Briefings in bioinformatics, 2011-07, Vol.12 (4), p.346-356

Language

English

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Publisher

England: Oxford University Press

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Contents

The need and opportunity to discover therapeutics for rare or orphan diseases are enormous. Due to limited prevalence and/or commercial potential, of the approximately 6000 orphan diseases (defined by the FDA Orphan Drug Act as <200 000 US prevalence), only a small fraction (5%) is of interest to the biopharmaceutical industry. The fact that drug d...

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Drug repositioning for orphan diseases

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_915486572

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_915486572

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ISSN

1467-5463

E-ISSN

1477-4054

DOI

10.1093/bib/bbr021

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