Primary amino acid derivatives: Compounds with anticonvulsant and neuropathic pain protection activities

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4815-4830

  King, Amber M ^a   Salomé, Christophe ^a   Dinsmore, Jason ^a   Salomé Grosjean, Elise ^a   De Ryck, Marc ^b   Kaminski, Rafal ^b   Valade, Anne ^b   Kohn, Harold ^a,c  

^a UNC Hamner Institute for Drug Safety Sciences   (United States)

^b UCB PHARMA   (Belgium)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; HYDROCARBON; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 2 CYCLOHEXYLACETAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 (N',N' DIMETHYL)AMINOPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 (PROP 2 YNYLOXY)PROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 ALLYLOXYPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 ETHOXYPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 HYDROXYPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 METHYLBUTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 METHYLPENTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 MORPHOLINOPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 PHENYLPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3 PROPOXYPROPIONAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 3,3 DIMETHYLBUTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 4 (METHYLTHIO)BUTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINO 4 HYDROXYBUTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINOBUTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINOHEXANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2 AMINOPENTANAMIDE; N BENZYL 2,3 DIAMINOPROPIONAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CONVULSANTS; ELECTROSHOCK; FORMALDEHYDE; MALE; MICE; NEURALGIA; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 79960196858     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: 15204804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm2004305     Document Type: Article

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