IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 49 / Issue 8 / DOI: 10.31083/j.ceog4908168
Open Access Original Research
Computational Drug Discovery in Patients with Endometriosis-Induced Infertility via Text Mining and Biomedical Databases
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1 Department of Healthcare, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, 350001 Fuzhou, Fujian, China
2 Department of Gynecologic, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, 350001 Fuzhou, Fujian, China
3 Department of Pathology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, 350001 Fuzhou, Fujian, China
4 Department of Obstetrics, Fujian Maternity and Child Health Hospital College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, 350001 Fuzhou, Fujian, China
*Correspondence: chenlib220@fjmu.edu.cn (Li Chen); fjsfylihua@163.com (Hua Li)
These authors contributed equally.
Academic Editor: Michael H. Dahan
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2022, 49(8), 168; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog4908168
Submitted: 10 March 2022 | Revised: 15 April 2022 | Accepted: 28 April 2022 | Published: 19 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Endometriosis)
Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Endometriosis (EMT) is the most common benign gynecological disease among women of reproductive age, causing infertility and seriously affects women’s physical and mental health. However, the current treatment was not always effective. This study was designed to use publicly available data to identify drugs targeting the relevant gene with EMT-induced-infertility using computational tools. Methods: EMT and infertility genes were determined by text mining, and the GeneCodis program was used to analyzed gene ontology of the intersection of the two gene sets. A string database was used to analyze the protein-protein interaction network. The Drug-Gene Interaction database is queried for the rich gene set belonging to the identified pathways to find drug candidates that can be used in EMT-induced infertility. Results: Our analysis identified 550 genes common to both the EMT and infertility by text mining. Gene enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction analysis found 39 genes potentially targetable by a total of 49 drugs that could be formulated for application, which have not been used in EMT-induced infertility. Conclusions: The findings from the present analysis can facilitate the Identification of existing drugs that have the potential of topical administration to improve EMT-induced infertility and present tremendous opportunities to study novel targets pharmacology using in silico text mining and pathway analysis tools. However, all the results were based on online bioinformatics databases, and as such require validation experiments. And some of the drugs highlighted as possibly relevant may be toxic and as such safely data is required before any experiments are undertaken in humans.

Keywords
differentially expressed genes
endometriosis
infertility
drugs
text mining
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