Flufenazine is an antipsychotic drug. It is used to treat chronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Flufenazine works by blocking postsynaptic dopamine D2 receptors in the limbic system, cortical system, and basal ganglia. This prevents the effects
Fluphenazine Decanoate Dihydrochloride is an antipsychotic agent, it could block postsynaptic dopamine D2 receptors in the limbic, cortical system and basal ganglia.
Fluphenazine is a traditional antipsychotic compound that tightly binds the dopamine D2 receptor (Ki = 0.55 nM) and also reversibly inhibits calmodulin at micromolar concentrations. Fluphenazine-N-2-chloroethane is a derivative of fluphenazine that contains an alkylating chlorethylamine chain, which produces irreversible protein binding. It is a relatively selective, irreversible antagonist of D2 receptors both in vitro (IC50 = 100 nM) and in vivo, inactivating approximately 90% of D2 receptors in mice within 4 hours of treatment. Through this action, fluphenazine-B-2-chloroethane can be used to induce catalepsy in mice. It irreversibly inhibits calmodulin at higher doses (IC50 = 10 μM), which can sensitize cancer cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis.
ADTN hydrobromide (6,7-ADTN) is a dopamine receptor agonist (EC50s = 3.5 and 0.65 μM in rat striatal and nucleus accumbens homogenates, respectively). ADTN hydrobromide stimulates production of cAMP in rat striatal homogenates, a process that is reduced by 70% in the presence of the dopamine antagonist fluphenazine at a concentration of 1 μM.