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ReviewAdvances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.)2014

Bath salts, mephedrone, and methylenedioxypyrovalerone as emerging illicit drugs that will need targeted therapeutic intervention.

Richard A Glennon

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Review in Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
48.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Flakka: New Dangerous Synthetic Cathinone on the Drug Scene.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  15. Using CaPsychopharmacology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard A GlennonDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Electronic address: glennon@vcu.edu.
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

Synthetic cathinones: a new class of illicit drugs affecting DAT & SERTR01DA033930 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI ELTIT, JOSE MIGUEL, GLENNON, RICHARD A · 2012 to 2016
$2.7M
CHEMICAL/BEHAVIORIAL STUDIES ON HALLUCINOGENIC AGENTSR01DA001642 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI GLENNON, RICHARD A · 1985 to 2007
$2.3M
NIDA NIH HHS DA01642NIDA NIH HHS DA033930NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA001642NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA033930
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The term "synthetic cathinones" is fairly new, but, although the abuse of synthetic cathinones is a recent problem, research on cathinone analogs dates back >100 years. One structural element cathinone analogs have in common is an α-aminophenone moiety. Introduction of amine and/or aryl substituents affords a large number of agents. Today, >40 synthetic cathinones have been identified on the clandestine market and many have multiple "street names." Many cathinone analogs, although not referred to as such until the late 1970s, were initially prepared as intermediates in the synthesis of ephedrine analogs. The cathinones do not represent a pharmacologically or mechanistically homogeneous class of agents. Currently abused synthetic cathinones are derived from earlier agents and seem to produce their actions primarily via the dopamine, norepinephrine, and/or serotonin transporter; that is, they either release and/or inhibit the reuptake of one or more of these neurotransmitters. The actions of these agents can resemble those of central stimulants such as methamphetamine, cocaine, and/or empathogens such as 1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-aminopropane (Ecstasy) and/or produce other effects. Side effects are primarily of a neurological and/or cardiovascular nature. The use of the "and/or" term is emphasized because synthetic cathinones represent a broad class of agents that produce a variety of actions; the agents cannot be viewed as being pharmacologically equivalent. Until valid structure-activity relationships are formulated for each behavioral/mechanistic action, individual synthetic cathinones remain to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Treatment of synthetic cathinone intoxication requires more "basic science" research. At this time, treatment is mostly palliative.

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AlkaloidsAnimalsCentral Nervous System StimulantsDrug Delivery SystemsHumansIllicit DrugsMethamphetaminePyrrolidinesStructure-Activity RelationshipSubstance-Related DisordersAlkaloidscathinoneCentral Nervous System StimulantsIllicit DrugsmephedroneMethamphetaminepyrovaleronePyrrolidinesAmphetamineBath saltsCathinoneDopamine transporterMDPVMephedroneMethamphetamineMethcathinoneMethylenedioxypyrovaleroneMethyloneSerotonin transporterα-Aminophenones

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PMID24484988
PMCPMC4471862
OpenAlexW58787485

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