Despite recent approvals of anti-obesity drugs there is still a high therapeutic need for alternative options with higher efficacy in humans. As part of our MCH-R1 antagonist program for the treatment of obesity, a series of biphenylacetamide HTS hits was evaluated. Several issues of the initial lead structures had to be resolved, such as potency, selectivity over related GPCRs and P-gp efflux limiting
尽管抗肥胖药最近得到批准,但仍然存在对人类中具有更高功效的替代选择的高治疗需求。作为我们用于肥胖治疗的MCH-R1拮抗剂计划的一部分,对一系列
联苯乙酰胺H
TS命中进行了评估。最初的
铅结构的几个问题必须解决,例如效力,对相关
GPCR的选择性以及P-gp外排限制了本系列中的大脑暴露。我们可以证明,通过结构修饰可以显着改善所有参数,从而使BI 414成为一种有效且可口服的MCH-R1拮抗剂工具化合物,在肥胖动物模型中具有可接受的体内功效。