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Assay Drug Dev Technol. 2016 Jul;14(5):282-290. doi: 10.1089/adt.2015.679. Epub 2016 Apr 05.

Closantel Suppresses Angiogenesis and Cancer Growth in Zebrafish Models.

Assay and drug development technologies

Xiao-Yu Zhu, Bo Xia, Hong-Cui Liu, Yi-Qiao Xu, Chang-Jiang Huang, Ji-Min Gao, Qiao-Xiang Dong, Chun-Qi Li

Affiliations

  1. 1 Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Technology and Application of Model Organisms, Wenzhou Medical University , Wenzhou, P.R. China .
  2. 2 Hunter Biotechnology, Inc., Hangzhou, P.R. China .
  3. 3 Institute of Watershed Science and Environmental Ecology, Wenzhou Medical University , Wenzhou, P.R. China .

PMID: 27045536 DOI: 10.1089/adt.2015.679

Abstract

Angiogenesis has emerged as an important therapeutic target in several major diseases, including cancer and age-related macular degeneration. The zebrafish offer the potential for high-throughput drug discovery in a whole vertebrate system. In this study, we have taken advantage of the transgenic Tg (fli1a:EGFP) zebrafish line to screen the U.S. Drug Collection Library and identified 11 old drugs with antiangiogenic activity, including Closantel, an FDA-approved broad-spectrum salicylanilide antiparasitic drug for a variety of types of animals. Closantel was confirmed to have antiangiogenic activity in zebrafish with a half-inhibitory concentration (IC

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