NS-2710 (LS-193,970) is an anxiolytic drug with a novel chemical structure, developed by the small pharmaceutical company NeuroSearch. It has similar effects to benzodiazepine drugs, but is structurally distinct and so is classed as a nonbenzodiazepine anxiolytic. NS-2710 is a potent but non-selective partial agonist at GABAA receptors, although with little efficacy at the α1 subtype and more at α2 and α3. It has anxiolytic effects comparable to chlordiazepoxide,[1] and while it is a less potent anticonvulsant than the related drug NS-2664, it has a much longer duration of action, and similarly to other α2/α3-preferring partial agonists produces little sedative effects or physical dependence.[2]
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| Formula | C22H20N4O |
| Molar mass | 356.429 g·mol−1 |
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References
edit- ^ Evenden J, Duncan B, Ko T (February 2006). "A comparison of the effects of psychotomimetics and anxiolytics on punished and unpunished responding maintained by fixed interval schedules of food reinforcement in the rat". Behavioural Pharmacology. 17 (1): 87–99. doi:10.1097/01.fbp.0000189812.77049.e5. PMID 16377966. S2CID 12424100.
- ^ Mirza NR, Nielsen EØ (March 2006). "Do subtype-selective gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor modulators have a reduced propensity to induce physical dependence in mice?". The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 316 (3): 1378–85. doi:10.1124/jpet.105.094474. PMID 16352707. S2CID 22700422.
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