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  2. Synthesis and SAR of a novel positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 4 (mGluR4)

Synthesis and SAR of a novel positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 4 (mGluR4)

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2009 Sep 1;19(17):4967-70. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.07.072.
Richard Williams 1 Kari A Johnson Patrick R Gentry Colleen M Niswender Charles D Weaver P Jeffrey Conn Craig W Lindsley Corey R Hopkins
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Abstract

This Letter describes the synthesis and SAR of the novel positive allosteric modulator, VU0155041, a compound that has shown in vivo efficacy in rodent models of Parkinson's disease. The synthesis takes advantage of an iterative parallel synthesis approach to rapidly synthesize and evaluate a number of analogs of VU0155041.

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