| Literature DB >> 15896682 |
Jos H M Lange1, Chris G Kruse.
Abstract
The proven clinical efficacy of the CB(1) cannabinoid receptor antagonist rimonabant in both obesity and smoking cessation and its therapeutic potential in other disorders has given a tremendous impetus to the discovery of novel CB(1) antagonists. The number of disclosed patents wherein novel chemical entities having CB(1) antagonistic or inverse agonistic properties have been claimed has exploded. Besides novel compound classes that were identified in screening, rational medicinal chemistry approaches such as conformational constraint and scaffold hopping have been successfully applied. CB(1) receptor modelling has provided insight into crucial receptor-ligand interaction points thereby leading to a general CB(1) inverse agonist pharmacophore model.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15896682 DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03427-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Drug Discov Today ISSN: 1359-6446 Impact factor: 7.851