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Severo Salvadori1, Stella Fiorini, Claudio Trapella, Frank Porreca, Peg Davis, Yusuke Sasaki, Akihiro Ambo, Ewa D Marczak, Lawrence H Lazarus, Gianfranco Balboni.
Abstract
H-Dmt-Tic-NH-CH(2)-Bid (UFP-502) was the first delta-opioid agonist prepared from the Dmt-Tic pharmacophore. It showed interesting pharmacological properties, such as stimulation of mRNA BDNF expression and antidepression. To evaluate the importance of 1H-benzimidazol-2-yl (Bid) in the induction of delta-agonism, it was substituted by similar heterocycles: The substitution of NH(1) by O or S transforms the reference delta-agonist into delta-antagonists. Phenyl ring of benzimidazole is not important for delta-agonism; in fact 1H-imidazole-2-yl retains delta-agonist activity.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18178091 PMCID: PMC2390930 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2007.12.032
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem ISSN: 0968-0896 Impact factor: 3.641