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| Description: | The utility of the compounds of the invention as an inhibitor of metabotropic glutamate receptor activity, in particular mGluR2 activity, may be demonstrated by methodology known in the art and as described as follows. Inhibition constants (IC50s; the concentration of compound required to provide 50% of maximal activity) 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 (Chinese hamster ovary) dhfr-cells stably expressing recombinant human mGluR2 and Gα16 loaded with Fluo-4 AM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad Calif., USA) were treated with various concentrations of each of the tested compounds of the invention and the Ca2+ response was monitored on a FLIPR384 instrument (Molecular Devices, Sunnydale Calif., USA). Maximal agonist activity was measured in the presence of 2,500 nM glutamate and the inhibition provided by a range of compound concentrations sufficient to minimally and maximally inhibit the glutamate-dependent response was monitored over time. 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., Inc.). Data in the following table lists the activity of each compound to inhibit glutamate-dependent mGluR2 activity in this cellular assay. |
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