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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2023

Pyrazole Ureas as Low Dose, CNS Penetrant Glucosylceramide Synthase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease.

Anthony J Roecker, Kathy M Schirripa, H Marie Loughran, Ling Tong, Tao Liang, Kerry L Fillgrove, Yuhsin Kuo, Kelly Bleasby, Hannah Collier, Michael D Altman and 20 more

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Article in ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anthony J RoeckerDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-7651
Kathy M SchirripaDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
H Marie LoughranDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Ling TongDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3302-8184
Tao LiangDiscovery Process Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States.
Kerry L FillgroveADME & Discovery Toxicology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Yuhsin KuoADME & Discovery Toxicology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Kelly BleasbyADME Transporters, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States.
Hannah CollierADME Transporters, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States.
Michael D AltmanComputational and Structural Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Melissa C FordComputational and Structural Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Robert E DroletDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Mali CosdenDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Sarah JinnDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Nathan G HatcherDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Lihang YaoDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Monika KandeboDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Joshua D VardiganDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Rosemarie B FlickDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Xiaomei LiuDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Christina MinnickDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Laura A PriceDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Marla L WattDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Wei LemaireDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Christine BurleinDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Gregory C AdamDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Lauren A AustinDiscovery Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9546-2026
Jacob N MarcusDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Sean M SmithDiscovery Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
Mark E FraleyDiscovery Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania 19486, United States.
United States Military Academy · USMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease is the second most prevalent progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Loss-of-function mutations in GBA, the gene that encodes for the lysosomal enzyme glucosylcerebrosidase, are a major genetic risk factor for the development of Parkinson's disease potentially through the accumulation of glucosylceramide and glucosylsphingosine in the CNS. A therapeutic strategy to reduce glycosphingolipid accumulation in the CNS would entail inhibition of the enzyme responsible for their synthesis, glucosylceramide synthase (GCS). Herein, we report the optimization of a bicyclic pyrazole amide GCS inhibitor discovered through HTS to low dose, oral, CNS penetrant, bicyclic pyrazole urea GCSi's with

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PMID36793422
PMCPMC9923837
OpenAlexW4315750422

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