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Biological Activity:
A centrally acting, nonopioid analgesic; flupirtine has a functional profile similar to NMDA-receptor antagonists, but devoid of the typical side effects of these drugs; flupirtine exerts potent cyto- and neuroprotective actions in different in vivo and in vitro models.
References: online 1, 2
MD Swedberg et al. Pharmacological mechanisms of action of flupirtine: a novel, centrally acting, nonopioid analgesic evaluated by its discriminative effects in the rat. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 1998, 246(3), 1067–74.
S Dhar et al. Flupirtine blocks apoptosis in batten patient lymphoblasts and in human postmitotic CLN3- and CLN2-deficient neurons. Ann. Neurol. 2002, 51 (4), 448–66.
G. Schuster et al. Flupirtine: A Review of Its Neuroprotective and Behavioral Properties. CNS Drug Reviews, 1998, 4(2), 149-164.
Chemical Name: N-[2-Amino-6-[[4-fluorophenyl)methyl]amino]-3-pyridinyl ]carbamic acid ethyl ester maleate
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