Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume 41, Issue 14 (July 2, 1998)
Copyright © 1998 American Chemical Society

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COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR

2439-2441

1-[2(R)-(2-Amino-2-methylpropionylamino)-3-(1H-indol-3-yl)propionyl]-3- benzylpiperidine-3(S)-carboxylic Acid Ethyl Ester (L-163,540): A Potent, Orally Bioavailable, and Short-Duration Growth Hormone Secretagogue Lihu Yang, Greg Morriello, Arthur A. Patchett, Kwan Leung, Tom Jacks, Kang Cheng, Klaus D. Schleim, William Feeney, Wanda W.-S. Chan, Shuet-Hing L. Chiu, and Roy G. Smith [Full Article - PDF]

2442-2444

5-Fluoro-2-methyl-N-[4-(5H-pyrrolo[2,1-c]- [1,4]benzodiazepin-10(11H)-ylcarbonyl)-3- chlorophenyl]benzamide (VPA-985): An Orally Active Arginine Vasopressin Antagonist with Selectivity for V2 Receptors J. Donald Albright, Marvin F. Reich, Efren G. Delos Santos, John P. Dusza, Fuk-Wah Sum, Aranapakam M.Venkatesan, Joseph Coupet, Peter S. Chan, Xun Ru, Hossein Mazandarani, and Trina Bailey [Full Article - PDF]

EXPEDITED ARTICLES

2445-2450

Substituted Halogenated Arylsulfonamides: A New Class of Receptor Binding Tumor Imaging Agents Christy S. John, Benjamin B. Lim, Bertold J. Vilner, Brian C. Geyer, and Wayne D. Bowen [Full Article - PDF]

2451-2460

Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of Novel Carbocyclic Influenza Neuraminidase Inhibitors Choung U. Kim, Willard Lew, Matthew A. Williams, Huiwei Wu, Lijun Zhang, Xiaowu Chen, Paul A. Escarpe, Dirk B. Mendel, W. Graeme Laver, and Raymond C. Stevens [Full Article - PDF]

ARTICLES

2461-2480

Inhibition of Human Neutrophil Elastase. 4. Design, Synthesis, X-ray Crystallographic Analysis, and Structure-Activity Relationships for a Series of P2-Modified, Orally Active Peptidyl Pentafluoroethyl Ketones Robert J. Cregge, Sherrie L. Durham, Robert A. Farr, Steven L. Gallion, C. Michelle Hare, Robert V. Hoffman, Michael J. Janusz, Hwa-Ok Kim, Jack R. Koehl, Shujaath Mehdi, William A. Metz, Norton P. Peet, John T. Pelton, Herman A. Schreuder, Shyam Sunder, and Chantal Tardif [Full Article - PDF]

2481-2491

New Chemical Descriptors Relevant for the Design of Biologically Active Peptides. A Multivariate Characterization of 87 Amino Acids Maria Sandberg, Lennart Eriksson, Jörgen Jonsson, Michael Sjöström, and Svante Wold [Full Article - PDF]

2492-2502

Design of a New Class of Orally Active Fibrinogen Receptor Antagonists Scott I. Klein, Bruce F. Molino, Mark Czekaj, Charles J. Gardner, Valeria Chu, Karen Brown, Ralph D. Sabatino, Jeffrey S. Bostwick, Charles Kasiewski, Ross Bentley, Vincent Windisch, Mark Perrone, Christopher T. Dunwiddie, and Robert J. Leadley [Full Article - PDF]

2503-2512

Pharmacophores Incorporating Numerous Excluded Volumes Defined by X-ray Crystallographic Structure in Three-Dimensional Database Searching: Application to the Thyroid Hormone Receptor Paulette A. Greenidge, Bo Carlsson, Lars-Göran Bladh, and Mikael Gillner [Full Article - PDF]

2513-2523

Heteroaryl Analogues of AMPA. 2. Synthesis, Absolute Stereochemistry, Photochemistry, and Structure-Activity Relationships Erik Falch, Lotte Brehm, Ivan Mikkelsen, Tommy N. Johansen, Niels Skjærbæk, Birgitte Nielsen, Tine B. Stensbl, Bjarke Ebert, and Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen [Full Article - PDF]

2524-2536

Design and Synthesis of m1-Selective Muscarinic Agonists: (R)-(-)-(Z)-1-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-3-one, O-(3-(3'-Methoxyphenyl)-2-propynyl)- oxime Maleate (CI-1017), a Functionally m1-Selective Muscarinic Agonist Haile Tecle, Stephen D. Barrett, David J. Lauffer, Corinne Augelli-Szafran, Mark R. Brann, Michael J. Callahan, Bradley. W. Caprathe, Robert E. Davis, Patricia D. Doyle, David Eubanks, William Lipiniski, Tara Mirzadegan, Walter H. Moos, D. W. Moreland, Carrie B. Nelson, Michael R. Pavia, Charlotte Raby, Roy D. Schwarz, Carolyn J. Spencer, Anthony J. Thomas, and Juan C. Jaen [Full Article - PDF]

2537-2552

Synthesis and Evaluation of Analogues of the Partial Agonist 6-(Propyloxy)-4-(methoxymethyl)--carboline-3-carboxylic Acid Ethyl Ester (6-PBC) and the Full Agonist 6-(Benzyloxy)-4-(methoxymethyl)-- carboline-3-carboxylic Acid Ethyl Ester (Zk 93423) at Wild Type and Recombinant GABAA Receptors Eric D. Cox, Hernando Diaz-Arauzo, Qi Huang, Mundla S. Reddy, Chunrong Ma, Brad Harris, Ruth McKernan, Phil Skolnick, and James M. Cook [Full Article - PDF]

2553-2564

Three-Dimensional Quantitative Similarity-Activity Relationships (3D QSiAR) from SEAL Similarity Matrices Hugo Kubinyi, Fred A. Hamprecht, and Thomas Mietzner [Full Article - PDF]

2565-2571

Homonojirimycin Isomers and N-Alkylated Homonojirimycins: Structural and Conformational Basis of Inhibition of Glycosidases Naoki Asano, Makoto Nishida, Atsushi Kato, Haruhisa Kizu, Katsuhiko Matsui, Yutaka Shimada, Takashi Itoh, Masanori Baba, Alison A. Watson, Robert J. Nash, Paul M. de Q. Lilley, David J. Watkin, and George W. J. Fleet [Full Article - PDF]

2572-2578

Carbocyclic Analogues of the Potent Cytidine Deaminase Inhibitor 1-(-D-Ribofuranosyl)-1,2-dihydropyrimidin-2-one (Zebularine) Lak Shin Jeong, Greg Buenger, John J. McCormack, David A. Cooney, Zhang Hao, and Victor E. Marquez [Full Article - PDF]

2579-2587

Synthesis and Evaluation of Peptidyl Michael Acceptors That Inactivate Human Rhinovirus 3C Protease and Inhibit Virus Replication Jian-she Kong, Shankar Venkatraman, Kelly Furness, Sanjay Nimkar, Timothy A. Shepherd, Q. May Wang, Jeffrey Aubé, and Robert P. Hanzlik [Full Article - PDF]

2588-2603

Synthesis and Biological Evaluations of 3-Substituted Indolin-2-ones: A Novel Class of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors That Exhibit Selectivity toward Particular Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Li Sun, Ngoc Tran, Flora Tang, Harald App, Peter Hirth, Gerald McMahon, and Cho Tang [Full Article - PDF]

2604-2613

Neurosteroid Analogues. 6. The Synthesis and GABAA Receptor Pharmacology of Enantiomers of Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate, Pregnenolone Sulfate, and (3,5)-3-Hydroxypregnan-20-one Sulfate Kent R. Nilsson, Charles F. Zorumski, and Douglas F. Covey [Full Article - PDF]

2614-2620

Minimal-Size, Constrained Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Agonists with i-(i+3) Glu-Lys and Lys-Glu Bridges Jean Rivier, Sabine L. Lahrichi, Jozsef Gulyas, Judit Erchegyi, Steven C. Koerber, A. Grey Craig, Anne Corrigan, Catherine Rivier, and Wylie Vale [Full Article - PDF]

2621-2625

Synthesis of 7,8-(Methylenedioxy)-1-phenyl-3,5-dihydro-4H-2,3-benzodiazepin- 4-ones as Novel and Potent Noncompetitive AMPA Receptor Antagonists Yan Wang, Christopher S. Konkoy, Victor I. Ilyin, Kimberly E. Vanover, Richard B. Carter, Eckard Weber, John F. W. Keana, Richard M. Woodward, and Sui Xiong Cai [Full Article - PDF]

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2626-2630

In Vitro Platelet-Activating Factor Receptor Binding Inhibitory Activity of Pinusolide Derivatives: A Structure-Activity Study Byung Hoon Han, Hyun Ok Yang, Young-Hwa Kang, Dae-Yeon Suh, Hyun Jung Go, Wan-Jin Song, Yong Chul Kim, and Man Ki Park [Full Article - PDF]

2631-2635

Synthesis and Biological Activity of a Novel Methylamine-Bridged Enkephalin Analogue (MABE): A New Route to Cyclic Peptides and Peptidomimetics Kevin Shreder, Li Zhang, Trunghau Dang, Tony L. Yaksh, Hiroshi Umeno, Robert DeHaven, Jeffrey Daubert, and Murray Goodman [Full Article - PDF]

2636-2642

Nitroaromatic Amino Acids as Inhibitors of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase Marlon Cowart, Elizabeth A. Kowaluk, Jerome F. Daanen, Kathy L. Kohlhaas, Karen M. Alexander, Frank L. Wagenaar, and James F. Kerwin, Jr. [Full Article - PDF]

2643-2650

Identification of a Dihydropyridine as a Potent 1a Adrenoceptor-Selective Antagonist That Inhibits Phenylephrine-Induced Contraction of the Human Prostate Wai C. Wong, George Chiu, John M. Wetzel, Mohammad R. Marzabadi, Dhanapalan Nagarathnam, Diana Wang, James Fang, Shou Wu Miao, Xingfang Hong, Carlos Forray, Pierre J.-J. Vaysse, Theresa A. Branchek, and Charles Gluchowski , Rui Tang and Herbert Lepor [Full Article - PDF]

2651-2656

N-Arylalkyl Pseudopeptide Inhibitors of Farnesyltransferase S. Jane deSolms, Elizabeth A. Giuliani, Samuel L. Graham, Kenneth S. Koblan, Nancy E. Kohl, Scott D. Mosser, Allen I. Oliff, David L. Pompliano, Elaine Rands, Thomas H. Scholz, Catherine M. Wiscount, Jackson B. Gibbs, and Robert L. Smith [Full Article - PDF]

2657-2660

14-Desoxy Analogues of Naltrindole and 7-Spiroindanyloxymorphone: The Role of the 14-Hydroxy Group at Opioid Receptors Tushar A. Kshirsagar, Xinqin Fang, and Philip S. Portoghese [Full Article - PDF]

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