摘要:
                                Adenosine is known to exert a wide range of pharmacological effects including hypotension.  This effect of adenosine suggested that modified analogues of adenosine might provide useful antihypertensive agents.  Thus, we prepared a series of novel N6-benzocycloalkyladenosines and studied their receptor binding and antihypertensive activity.  The structure-activity relationship study shows that the adenosine analogues having the hydrophobic phenyl moiety one carbon away from the C6-nitrogen have modest affinity and selectivity for the A1 receptor, whereas those with the phenyl moiety two carbons away from the C6-nitrogen have excellent affinity and selectivity for the A1 receptor.  Many of these analogues showed excellent antihypertensive activity with a wide range of effects on heart rate.  There is no direct correlation between the receptor binding affinities and antihypertensive activity; however, it is more closely associated with A1 than A2 affinity.  The bradycardic effect of these agonists seems to be due to the A1 affinity.  From this set, compound 3 was further evaluated in secondary antihypertensive screens.  It lowered the blood pressure dose dependently with effects lasting for over 20 h following administration of a 30 mg/kg dose.  Compound 3 was also effective in lowering blood pressure in a renal hypertensive rat model.  Thus, appropriately modified N6-substituted adenosines represent a novel class of antihypertensive agents.