Chemistry:APICA (drug)

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APICA
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FormulaC10H12NO5P
Molar mass257.182 g·mol−1
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1-Amino-5-phosphonoindan-1-carboxylic acid (APICA) is a drug that is used in neuroscience research. It is a selective antagonist for the group II metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR2/3), and has been useful in the study of this receptor subfamily.[1][2][3][4][5]

References

  1. "Synthesis and biological activity of cyclic analogues of MPPG and MCPG as metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonists.". Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 7 (9): 1195–1198. May 1997. doi:10.1016/S0960-894X(97)00177-7. 
  2. "Asymmetric Strecker-Type Reaction of alpha-Aryl Ketones. Synthesis of (S)-alphaM4CPG, (S)-MPPG, (S)-AIDA, and (S)-APICA, the Antagonists of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors". The Journal of Organic Chemistry 64 (1): 120–125. January 1999. doi:10.1021/jo981297a. PMID 11674092. 
  3. "Group II metabotropic glutamate receptors modulate extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens". The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 300 (1): 162–71. January 2002. doi:10.1124/jpet.300.1.162. PMID 11752112. 
  4. "The origin and neuronal function of in vivo nonsynaptic glutamate". The Journal of Neuroscience 22 (20): 9134–41. October 2002. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-20-09134.2002. PMID 12388621. 
  5. "Activation of Group II/III metabotropic glutamate receptors attenuates LPS-induced astroglial neurotoxicity via promoting glutamate uptake". Journal of Neuroscience Research 84 (2): 268–77. August 2006. doi:10.1002/jnr.20897. PMID 16752416.