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AZD 9272 is a drug which acts as a selective
antagonist An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy or rival of the protagonist and is often depicted as a villain.metabotropic glutamate receptor The metabotropic glutamate receptors, or mGluRs, are a type of glutamate receptor that are active through an indirect metabotropic receptor, metabotropic process. They are members of the group C GPCR family, group C family of G-protein-coupled r ...
subtype mGluR5. It was unsuccessful in human trials as an analgesic, but continues to be widely used in research especially as its
radiolabelled A radioactive tracer, radiotracer, or radioactive label is a synthetic derivative of a natural compound in which one or more atoms have been replaced by a radionuclide (a radioactive atom). By virtue of its radioactive decay, it can be used to exp ...
forms.


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Basimglurant Basimglurant (INN; developmental code RG-7090 and RO-4917523) is a negative allosteric modulator of the mGlu5 receptor which is under development by Roche and Chugai Pharmaceutical for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression (as an adj ...
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Fenobam Fenobam is an imidazole derivative developed by McNeil Laboratories in the late 1970s as a novel anxiolytic drug with an at-the-time-unidentified molecular target in the brain. Subsequently, it was determined that fenobam acts as a potent and se ...


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MGlu5 receptor antagonists Fluoroarenes Disubstituted pyridines Nitriles Oxadiazoles {{pharm-stub