Discovery of Orally Bioavailable Cathepsin S Inhibitors for the Reversal of Neuropathic Pain
作者:Osamu Irie、Takatoshi Kosaka、Takeru Ehara、Fumiaki Yokokawa、Takanori Kanazawa、Hajime Hirao、Astuko Iwasaki、Junichi Sakaki、Naoki Teno、Yuko Hitomi、Genji Iwasaki、Hiroaki Fukaya、Kazuhiko Nonomura、Keiko Tanabe、Shinichi Koizumi、Noriko Uchiyama、Stuart J. Bevan、Marzia Malcangio、Clive Gentry、Alyson J. Fox、Mohammed Yaqoob、Andrew J. Culshaw、Allan Hallett
DOI:10.1021/jm800839j
日期:2008.9.25
Cathepsin S inhibitors are well-known to be an attractive target as immunological therapeutic agents. Recently, Our gene expression analysis identified that cathepsin S inhibitors could also be effective for neuropathic pain. Herein, we describe the efficacy of selective cathepsin S inhibitors as antihyperalgesics in a model of neuropathic pain in rats after oral administration.