M4 agonists/5HT7 antagonists with potential as antischizophrenic drugs: Serominic compounds
摘要:
Chronic low-dose treatment of rats with the psychomimetic drug, phencyclidine, induces regionally specific metabolic and neurochemical changes in the CNS that mirror those observed in the brains of schizophrenic patients. Recent evidence suggests that drugs targeting serotoninergic and muscarinic receptors, and in particular 5-HT7 antagonists and M-4 agonists, exert beneficial effects in this model of schizophrenia. Compounds that display this combined pattern of activity we refer to as serominic compounds. Based upon leads from natural product screening, we have designed and synthesised such serominic compounds, which are principally arylamidine derivatives of tetrahydroisoquinolines, and shown that they have the required serominic profile in ligand binding assays and show potential antipsychotic activity in functional assays. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
M4 agonists/5HT7 antagonists with potential as antischizophrenic drugs: Serominic compounds
摘要:
Chronic low-dose treatment of rats with the psychomimetic drug, phencyclidine, induces regionally specific metabolic and neurochemical changes in the CNS that mirror those observed in the brains of schizophrenic patients. Recent evidence suggests that drugs targeting serotoninergic and muscarinic receptors, and in particular 5-HT7 antagonists and M-4 agonists, exert beneficial effects in this model of schizophrenia. Compounds that display this combined pattern of activity we refer to as serominic compounds. Based upon leads from natural product screening, we have designed and synthesised such serominic compounds, which are principally arylamidine derivatives of tetrahydroisoquinolines, and shown that they have the required serominic profile in ligand binding assays and show potential antipsychotic activity in functional assays. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In the present work, a propylphosphonicanhydride (T3P®) assisted Robinson–Gabriel cyclization of N-acyl-β-oxotryptamines for the synthesis of 2-substituted-5-(3-indolyl)oxazoles has been developed. The reactions proceeded smoothly in acetonitrile under microwave irradiation, and the product isolation required only an extraction and subsequent crystallization; no chromatography was necessary. The desired