Pharmaceutical composition containing verbenone derivative for treating or preventing neurodegenerative disease
申请人:KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
公开号:US10710951B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-14
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition or a functional health food comprising a verbenone derivative and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as active ingredients for treating or preventing a neurodegenerative disease. More specifically, the verbenone derivative according to the present invention reduces neuronal cell death and oxidative stress, and is highly effective in preventing ischemic brain damage and inflammatory cell migration in rats, thereby providing the pharmaceutical composition or the functional health food which is useful in treating neurodegenerative diseases.
A series of novel (1S)-(−)-verbenone derivatives was synthesized bearing a 4-styryl scaffold. The synthesized compounds were tested for their anti-oxidant, anti-excitotoxic, and anti-ischemic activities. These derivatives significantly reduced oxygen–glucose deprivation-induced neuronal injury and N-methyl-d-aspartic acid-evoked excitotoxicity in cortical neurons. Furthermore, compound 3f was identified