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SUBMITTER: He S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4025728 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20120507 6
A structure-activity relationship study of the imidazolyl-β-tetrahydrocarboline series identified MK-4256 as a potent, selective SSTR3 antagonist, which demonstrated superior efficacy in a mouse oGTT model. MK-4256 reduced glucose excursion in a dose-dependent fashion with maximal efficacy achieved at doses as low as 0.03 mg/kg po. As compared with glipizide, MK-4256 showed a minimal hypoglycemia risk in mice. ...[more]