Jamshid Tabeshpour

Department of Pharmacy, Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran

Publications

• Review Article   
  Adjunctive use of statins in pandemic politics
  Author(s): Jamshid Tabeshpour and Mehri Bemani Naeini*
  
  Since antiviral agents and vaccines are unavailable in all countries, we should determine whether other available agents could yield clinical benefits for treatment and prophylaxis of pandemic disease. Drug repurposing, an effective drug discovery strategy from existing drugs, shortens the time and diminish the cost compared to de novo drug discovery. An achievable but effective treatment is needed, particularly by FDA-approved medications. SARS-CoV-2-induced disease is associated with a boosted cardiovascular disease and induces proinflammatory cytokines. Statins show immunomodulatory effects, and could be useful in the control of life-threatening infections and proinflammatory cytokine dysregulation which confirmed by reduced rates of hospitalization and death in patients. Statins are globally distributed and cheap. They might be one of the most valuable agents that could alter the .. View More»
  

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