PUBLICATION
Repurpose terbutaline sulfate for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using electronic medical records
- Authors
- Paik, H., Chung, A.Y., Park, H.C., Park, R.W., Suk, K., Kim, J., Kim, H., Lee, K., Butte, A.J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-150306-14
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- Scientific Reports 5: 8580 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Chung, Ah-Young, Lee, Ki-Young, Park, Hae-Chul
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/drug therapy*
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/genetics
- Data Mining
- Databases, Factual
- Datasets as Topic
- Drug Repositioning*
- Electronic Health Records*
- Genomics/methods
- Humans
- Medical Informatics/methods*
- Reproducibility of Results
- Terbutaline/pharmacology
- Terbutaline/therapeutic use*
- PubMed
- 25739475 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Citation
Paik, H., Chung, A.Y., Park, H.C., Park, R.W., Suk, K., Kim, J., Kim, H., Lee, K., Butte, A.J. (2015) Repurpose terbutaline sulfate for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using electronic medical records. Scientific Reports. 5:8580.
Abstract
Prediction of new disease indications for approved drugs by computational methods has been based largely on the genomics signatures of drugs and diseases. We propose a method for drug repositioning that uses the clinical signatures extracted from over 13 years of electronic medical records from a tertiary hospital, including >9.4M laboratory tests from >530,000 patients, in addition to diverse genomics signatures. Cross-validation using over 17,000 known drug-disease associations shows this approach outperforms various predictive models based on genomics signatures and a well-known "guilt-by-association" method. Interestingly, the prediction suggests that terbutaline sulfate, which is widely used for asthma, is a promising candidate for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for which there are few therapeutic options. In vivo tests using zebrafish models found that terbutaline sulfate prevents defects in axons and neuromuscular junction degeneration in a dose-dependent manner. A therapeutic potential of terbutaline sulfate was also observed when axonal and neuromuscular junction degeneration have already occurred in zebrafish model. Cotreatment with a β2-adrenergic receptor antagonist, butoxamine, suggests that the effect of terbutaline is mediated by activation of β2-adrenergic receptors.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping