N-(benzyloxycarbonyl)glycine esters and amides as new anticonvulsants

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-30

  Geurts, Muriel ^a   Poupaert, Jacques H ^b   Scriba, Gerhard K E ^a   Lambert, Didier M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MILACEMIDE; N (BENZYLOXYCARBONYL)GLYCINE BENZYLAMIDE; N BENZYLOXYCARBONYLGLYCINE; N HYDROCINNAMOYLGLYCINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PENTETRAZOLE; PHENYTOIN; STRYCHNINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VALPROMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIPOPHILICITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

3-MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; AMIDES; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROSHOCK; ESTERS; GLYCINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEUROTOXINS; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SEIZURES; SPINAL CORD; STRYCHNINE;

EID: 0031941914     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm970086f     Document Type: Article

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