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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 233-247Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jm101075v
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Transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) is a nonselective cation channel that is thermo-responsive to cool to cold temperatures (8-28 degrees C) and also may be activated by chemical agonists such as menthol and Antagonism of TRPM8 activation is currently under investigation for the treatment of painful conditions related to cold, such as cold allodynia and cold hyperalgesia The design, synthesis, and optimization of a class of selective TRPM8 antagonists based on a benzimidazole scaffold is described, leading to the identification of compounds that exhibited potent antagonism of TRPM8 in cell-based functional assays for human, rat, and canine TRPM8 channels Numerous compounds in the series demonstrated excellent in vivo activity in the TRPM8-selective wet-dog shakes (WDS) pharmacodynamic model and in the rat chronic constriction injury (CCI)-induced model of neuropathic pain Taken together the present results suggest that the in vivo antagonism of TRPM8 constitutes a viable new strategy for treating a variety of disorders associated with cold hypersensitivity, including certain types of neuropathic pain
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