Meclizine, an over-the-counter drug used for decades to treat nausea and motion sickness, has the potential for new uses to treat certain infectious diseases and some forms of cancer, according to Dr. Vishal M. Gohil, an assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M University.
“Clearly this drug has many potential new applications,” Gohil said. “And now that we know its new target within the cell, we can start to explore ways of using it to treat other diseases. We can ‘repurpose’ this drug.”
The research on meclizine appears in the current online version of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Read the full press release here.