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ArticleChemistry Central journal2018

Better agonist for the opioid receptors.

Syed Lal Badshah, Asad Ullah, Salim S Al-Showiman, Yahia Nasser Mabkhot

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Article in Chemistry Central journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Syed Lal BadshahDepartment of Chemistry, Islamia College University, Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan. shahbiochemist@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0229-1425
Asad UllahDepartment of Chemistry, Islamia College University, Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan.
Salim S Al-ShowimanDepartment of Chemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Yahia Nasser MabkhotDepartment of Chemistry, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. yahia@ksu.edu.sa.
Islamia College University · PKKing Saud University · SA

Funding

King Saud University PRG-1437-29
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary highlights the recent work published in journal Nature on the structural based discovery of novel analgesic compounds for opioid receptors with minimal effects. Manglik et al. selectively targeted the Gi based μOR pathway instead of the β-arrestin pathway of the opioids. The computational screening of millions of compounds showed a list of several competent ligands. From these ligands they synthesized the compounds with the best docking score, which were further optimized by adding side residues for better interaction with the μOR. A promising compound, PZM21, was a selective agonist of μOR. It has better analgesic properties with minimal side effects of respiratory depression and constipation. This work is a step towards better drug designing and synthesizing in terms of efficacy, specificity with least side effects of targeted GPCR proteins present in the human proteome.

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AgonistsAnalgesicsMolecular dockingOpioid receptorsSelectivity

Identifiers

PMID29417377
PMCPMC5803155
OpenAlexW2795547154

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