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  2. Characterization of the 1H-cyclopentapyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione derivative (S)-CPW399 as a novel, potent, and subtype-selective AMPA receptor full agonist with partial desensitization properties

Characterization of the 1H-cyclopentapyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione derivative (S)-CPW399 as a novel, potent, and subtype-selective AMPA receptor full agonist with partial desensitization properties

  • J Med Chem. 2001 Dec 20;44(26):4501-4. doi: 10.1021/jm015552m.
G Campiani 1 E Morelli V Nacci C Fattorusso A Ramunno E Novellino J Greenwood T Liljefors R Griffiths C Sinclair H Reavy A S Kristensen D S Pickering A Schousboe A Cagnotto E Fumagalli T Mennini
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Affiliation

  • 1 Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tecnologico (DFCT), Universita' degli Studi di Siena, via Aldo Moro, 53100 Siena, Italy. campiani@unisi.it
Abstract

(S)-CPW399 (2b) is a novel, potent, and subtype-selective AMPA Receptor full agonist that, unlike (S)-willardiine and related compounds, in mouse cerebellar granule cells, stimulated an increase in [CA(2+)](i), and induced neuronal cell death in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. Compound 2b appears to be a weakly desensitizing, full agonist at AMPA receptors and therefore represents a new pharmacological tool to investigate the role of AMPA receptors in excitotoxicity and their molecular mechanisms of desensitization.

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