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SUBMITTER: Brown DG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4027539 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brown Dean G DG Bernstein Peter R PR Wu Ye Y Urbanek Rebecca A RA Becker Christopher W CW Throner Scott R SR Dembofsky Bruce T BT Steelman Gary B GB Lazor Lois A LA Scott Clay W CW Wood Michael W MW Wesolowski Steven S SS Nugiel David A DA Koch Stephanie S Yu Jian J Pivonka Donald E DE Li Shuang S Thompson Carol C Zacco Anna A Elmore Charles S CS Schroeder Patricia P Liu JianWei J Hurley Christopher A CA Ward Stuart S Hunt Hazel J HJ Williams Karen K McLaughlin Joseph J Hoesch Valerie V Sydserff Simon S Maier Donna D Aharony David D
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20121112 1
Herein, we describe the discovery of inhibitors of norepinephrine (NET) and dopamine (DAT) transporters with reduced activity relative to serotonin transporters (SERT). Two compounds, 8b and 21a, along with nomifensine were tested in a rodent receptor occupancy study and demonstrated dose-dependent displacement of radiolabeled NET and DAT ligands. These compounds were efficacious in a rat forced swim assay (model of depression) and also had activity in rat spontaneous locomotion assay. ...[more]