C. Melchiorre et al., DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL-ACTIVITY OF SOME TETRAAMINES RELATEDTO METHOCTRAMINE AND 4-DAMP, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 5(8), 1995, pp. 785-790
Three novel tetraamines (1-3) related to methoctramine were designed,
and their biological profiles at muscarinic receptor subtypes were ass
essed by binding assays. It turned out that the constrained analogue s
pirotramine (3, FC 15-94) of 4-DAMP has an affinity profile better tha
n that of pirenzepine owing to a high affinity for muscarinic M(1) rec
eptors and a significantly lower affinity for the M(2), M(3) and M(4)
subtypes.