Affiliation: | a Departments of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2506, U.S.A. b Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 6645-2506, U.S.A. |
Abstract: | N,N′-bis-[2-N-(O-2,6-dichlorobenzyl-L-tyrosyl)aminoethylguanyl]cystamine 3 and N,N′-bis-[2-N-(O-2,6-dichlorobenzyl-L-tyrosyl)aminoethyl]-1,6-hexanediguanidine 4 have been designed as neuropeptide Y (NPY) functional group mimetics. Both 3 and 4 displace N-[propionyl-3H]-NPY from rat brain binding sites, and are NPY receptor antagonists in rat femoral artery ring segments. |