GNE-616 is a highly potent, metabolically stable, orally bioavailable, and subtype-selective Nav1.7 inhibitor (Ki: 0.79 nM, Kd: 0.38 nM for hNav1.7) for the treatment of chronic pain.
Photoswitchable Kv channel blocker (IC50 values are 2 and 64 μM at 500 nm and 380 nm respectively). Switches conformation from cis to trans at 500 nm and trans to cis at 380 nm. Exhibits minimal activity at Nav1.2 and L-type Ca2+ channels. Stimulates action potential firing of hippocampal neurons in vitro at 500 nm and restores visual responsiveness in blind mice at 380 nm. Fortin et al (2008) Photochemical control of endogenous ion channels and cellular excitability. Nat.Methods 5 331 PMID:18311146 |Polosukhina et al (2012) Photochemical restoration of visual responses in blind mice. Neuron 75 271 PMID:22841312 |Banghart et al (2009) Photochromic blockers of voltage-gated potassium channels. Angew.Chem.Int.Ed. 48 9097 PMID:19882609
Lu AE98134, an activator of voltage-gated sodium channels, acts as a partly selective Nav1.1 channels positive modulator. Lu AE98134 also increases the activity of Nav1.2 and Nav1.5 channels but not of Nav1.4, Nav1.6 and Nav1.7 channels. Lu AE98134 can be used to analyze pathophysiological functions of the Nav1.1 channel in various central nervous system diseases, including cognitive restoring in schizophrenia, et al[1].
4,9-Anhydrotetrodotoxin (4,9-anhydro-TTX) is a derivative of TTX that selectively blocks inward sodium current through Nav1.6 voltage-activated sodium channels (IC50 = 7.8 nM in Xenopus oocytes). [1][2][3] It demonstrates IC50 values of 1.3, 0.34, 0.99, 78.5, 1.3, and >30 µM for Nav1.2, Nav1.3, Nav1.4, Nav1.5, Nav1.7, and Nav1.8, respectively.[1]
PD-85639 is a voltage-gated sodium (Na+) channel blocker (75% in 10 min & >95% in 25 min blockage of Na+ current by 25 μM PD85,639; whole-cell patch clamp using primary rat brain neurons) that is shown to target rat brain Nav1.2 with simultaneous high- and low-affinity modes of binding (EC50 = 56 nM 40% & 20 μM 60% at pH 9.0, 5 nM 28% & 3 μM 72% at pH 7.4, against 2 nM [3H]-PD85,639 for binding rat brain synaptosomes; EC50 = 17 nM 39% & 10 μM 61% using at pH 9.0 using rat brain synaptosome membranes) and a fast kinetic (t1 2 = 1.2 at 4°C, <0.5 min at 25°C), competitive against the local anesthetic Na+ channel blockers tetracaine, bupivacaine, and mepivacaine, as well as Na+ channel activators veratridine and batrachotoxin (K1 = 0.26 μM against 5 nM [3H]-BTX for binding rat neocrotical membranes).
AA43279 is a novel selective Nav1.1 activator, increasing the firing activity of parvalbumin-expressing, fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons and increasing the spontaneous inhibitory post-synaptic currents (sIPSCs) recorded from pyramidal neurons.
Potent blocker of voltage-gated sodium channels (IC50 values are 0.6, 42, and 72 nM for NaV1.2, NaV1.3 and NaV1.5 respectively). Blocks inward sodium currents in a voltage-dependent manner.