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Cardiovascular diseases are the primary factor for increased mortality rates around the world. Atherosclerosis brought on by high serum cholesterol can result in coronary heart disease (CHD). The risk of CHD is markedly reduced by lowering serum cholesterol levels. Scientists across the world are inventing new treatment regimens for lowering blood lipid levels. In this work, we repurposed the already established drugs, i.e., cyclizine derivatives as antihyperlipidemic agents. The repurposing was done based on the similarity of the selected cyclizine derivatives with the already established antihyperlipidemic drug, fenofibrate. Computational studies were performed and the 16 cyclizine derivatives docked against PPAR. alpha scored higher than fenofibrate. Lifarizine and medibazine outperform fenofibrate inmmgbsa. Fenofibrate, etodroxizine, meclizine, and cinnarizine had similar mmgbsa scores. The ADME properties of these compounds were performed and from that etodroxizine and levocetirizine were found to have better properties. The computational studies were performed using the Schrodinger software, maestro 12.8. The “Protein Preparation Wizard” module in the Maestro panel was used to create the protein structure and OPLS4 force field was used for energy minimization. The maestro builder panel’s “Ligprep”, “Receptor Grid Generation” and “Ligand Docking” modules were then used to prepare ligands, receptor grids and to perform docking respectively. MMGBSA was performed on the “prime MMGBSA” segment. Using the “Qikprop” setting in the maestro panel, a number of ADMET properties were predicted, and the program was run in default mode using vsgb as the solvation model.
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Afanamol, M.S., Dinesh, A.D., Ali, K.S. et al. Drug repurposing by in silico prediction of cyclizine derivatives as antihyperlipemic agents. In Silico Pharmacol. 11, 27 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40203-023-00164-2
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