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. 2020 Jun 16;10:9719. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66350-w

Table 8.

Forty most likely candidate drugs for glaucoma.

Name Medical uses FDR
Alitretinoin Chronic hand eczema (1) 2.41E-03
Vinblastine Interference with tubulin (2) 6.76E-05
Paclitaxel Non-small-cell lung cancer (3) 2.41E-03
Meptazinol Analgesia (4) 4.31E-05
Caffeine Neurodegenerative diseases (5) 6.00E-07
Auranofin Rheumatoid arthritis (6) 0
Cilomilast Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (7) 5.71E-04
Dipyridamole Antithrombosis (8) 5.71E-04
Loperamide Acute infectious diarrhea (9) 1.23E-03
Ketotifen Allergic diseases (10), chronic urticaria (11) 2.41E-03
Tipifarnib Prevents hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (12), tumor (13) 0
Pentoxifylline Venous leg ulcer (14) 0
Aspirin Antitumor (15), pain (16) 0
Sulfasalazine Rheumatoid arthritis (17) 4.00E-07
Docetaxel Breast cancer (18) 2.27E-04
Tretinoin Acne vulgaris, keratosis pilaris, acute promyelocytic and leukemia (19) 2.41E-03
Celecoxib Osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis (20) 3.74E-02
Retinol Reduces symptoms of skin aging (21) 3E-08
Carvedilol Systemic hypertension and myocardial dysfunction (22) 1E-08
Pyrazinamide Tuberculosis (23) 0
Acitretin Pediatric psoriasis (24) 0
Linifanib Cancer (25) 0
Cytarabine Acute myeloid leukemia (26) 8E-08
Sulpiride Schizophrenia (27) 1.41E-04
Ocriplasmin Symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion (28) 0
Bevacizumab Recurrent glioblastoma (29) 1.08E-04
Dexamethasone Acute spinal cord injury (30) 0
Cyclosporine Transplant rejection (31) 1.454-04
Everolimus Tumors (32) 4.31E-02
Fluorouracil Tumors (33) 2.23E-04
Tamoxifen Breast cancer (34) 1.08E-04
Etretinate Psoriasis and many other skin diseases (35) 0
Trametinib Melanoma (36) 2.94E-04
Selumetinib Advanced/metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (37) 3.75E-04
Sirolimus Prevention of transplant rejection (38) 1.45E-04
Dasatinib Chronic myeloid leukemia (39) 5.98E-04
Gemcitabine Cancer (40) 2.94E-04
Cetuximab Cancer (41) 2.51E-04
Arsenic trioxide Acute promyelocytic leukemia (42) 5.43E-04
Labetalol Hypertension (43) 0