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| Description: | The utility of the compounds of the invention as antagonists of metabotropic glutamate receptor activity, in particular mGluR2 activity, may be demonstrated by methodology known in the art. Antagonist constants are determined as follows. The compounds of the invention were tested in a fluorescence laser imaging plate reader based assay. This assay is a common functional assay to monitor Ca2+ mobilization in whole cells expressing recombinant receptor coupled with a promiscuous G-protein. CHO dhfr-cells stably expressing recombinant human mGluR2 and Gα16 loaded with Fluo-4 AM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad Calif.) were treated with various concentrations of antagonists of compounds and the Ca2+ response was monitored on a FLIPR384 (Molecular Devices, Sunnydale Calif.) for agonist activity. Then 2,500 nM glutamate was added and the antagonist response was monitored. The maximum calcium response at each concentration of compound for agonist or antagonist were plotted as dose responses and the curves were fitted with a four parameter logistic equation giving IC50 and Hill coefficient using the iterative non linear curve fitting software ADA (Merck & Co). |
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