Novel potent ligands for the central nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: Synthesis, receptor binding, and 3D-QSAR analysis

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2217-2226

  Nielsen, Simon Feldbœk ^a   Nielsen, Elsebet Østergaard ^a   Olsen, Gunnar M ^a   Liljefors, Tommy ^b   Peters, Dan ^a  

^a NEUROSEARCH A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NITROGEN; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG SYNTHESIS; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RAT;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; AZOCINES; BRAIN; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; LIGANDS; MALE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; QUINOLIZINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRITIUM;

EID: 0034213308     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm990973d     Document Type: Article

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