supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30900832);Open Project Program Foundation of Key Laboratory of Liver and Kidney Diseases (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine);Ministry of Education Pro-gram for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-08-0399);"Shu Guang" Project by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (07SG22);grants from Ministry of Science and Technology China (2012ZX10005001)
Finding new applications for existing pharmaceuticals,known as drug repositioning,is a validated strategy for resolving the problem of high expenditure but low productivity in drug discovery.Currently,the prevalent co...