摘要:
A small library of N-benzyl indolequinuclidinone (IQD) analogs has been identified as a novel class of cannabinoid ligands. The affinity and selectivity of these IQDs for the two established cannabinoid receptor subtypes, CB1 and CB2, was evaluated. Compounds 8 (R = R-2 = H, R-1 = F) and 13 (R = COOCH3, R-1 = R-2 = H) exhibited high affinity for CB2 receptors with K-i values of 1.33 and 2.50 nM, respectively, and had lower affinities for the CBI receptor (K-i values of 9.23 and 85.7 nM, respectively). Compound 13 had the highest selectivity of all the compounds examined, and represents a potent cannabinoid ligand with 34-times greater selectivity for CB2R over CB1R. These findings are significant for future drug development, given recent reports demonstrating beneficial use of cannabinoid ligands in a wide variety of human disease states including drug abuse, depression, schizophrenia, inflammation, chronic pain, obesity, osteoporosis and cancer. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.