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Role of benzimidazole (Bid) in the δ-opioid agonist pseudopeptide H-Dmt-Tic-NH-CH2-Bid (UFP-502)
Salvadori, Severo,Fiorini, Stella,Trapella, Claudio,Porreca, Frank,Davis, Peg,Sasaki, Yusuke,Ambo, Akihiro,Marczak, Ewa D.,Lazarus, Lawrence H.,Balboni, Gianfranco
, p. 3032 - 3038 (2008/09/19)
H-Dmt-Tic-NH-CH2-Bid (UFP-502) was the first δ-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 δ-agonism, it was substituted by similar heterocycles: The substitution of NH(1) by O or S transforms the reference δ-agonist into δ-antagonists. Phenyl ring of benzimidazole is not important for δ-agonism; in fact 1H-imidazole-2-yl retains δ-agonist activity.
