GBR 13069 dihydrochloride

Prevention of the nigrostriatal toxicity of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine by inhibitors of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine transport.[Pubmed:3489072]

J Neurochem. 1986 Oct;47(4):1073-9.

The 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine (DA, dopamine) uptake inhibitors GBR 13,069, amfonelic acid, WIN-35,065-2, WIN-35,428, nomifensine, mazindol, cocaine, McN-5908, McN-5847, and McN-5292 were effective in preventing [3H]DA and [3H]1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) uptake in rat and mouse neostriatal tissue slices. These DA uptake inhibitors also were effective in attenuating the MPP+-induced release of [3H]DA in vitro. 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) administration to mice (6 X 25 mg/kg i.p.) resulted in a large (70-80%) decrement in neostriatal DA. WIN-35,428 (5 mg/kg), GBR 13,069 (10 mg/kg), McN-5292 (5 mg/kg), McN-5908 (2 mg/kg), and amfonelic acid (2 mg/kg), when administered intraperitoneally 30 min prior to each MPTP injection, fully protected against MPTP-induced neostriatal damage. Other DA uptake inhibitors showed partial protection in vivo at the doses selected. Desmethylimipramine did not prevent [3H]MPP+ uptake or MPP+-induced release of [3H]DA in vitro, and did not protect against MPTP neurotoxicity in vivo. These results support the hypothesis put forth previously by others that the active uptake of MPP+ by dopaminergic neurons is necessary for toxicity.

Interaction between substituted 1-[2-(diphenylmethoxy)ethyl] piperazines and dopamine receptors.[Pubmed:4094653]

Neuropharmacology. 1985 Dec;24(12):1171-4.

Substituted 1-[2-(diphenylmethoxy)ethyl]piperazines were tested for their affinity to specific [3H]dopamine binding sites in membrane preparations from the corpus striatum of the rat. In particular, 4-(3-phenyl-2-prop(en)yl)- and 4-(3-phenyl-2-butyl)-substitution yielded compounds potent in displacing [3H]dopamine from its binding sites, with IC50-values in the order of 10 nM. There was a significant correlation between the IC50-values determined in this binding assay and the IC50-values obtained for the same compounds in a previous study on their potency to inhibit the uptake of dopamine in synaptosomal preparations of the striatum of the rat. Current insight in structural requirements for binding to dopamine receptors, as obtained mainly with rigid analogues of dopamine, gives no satisfactory explanation for the dopaminergic activity of the piperazine derivatives tested.

Behavioral properties of GBR 12909, GBR 13069 and GBR 13098: specific inhibitors of dopamine uptake.[Pubmed:6237922]

Eur J Pharmacol. 1984 Aug 17;103(3-4):241-8.

Two aryl 1,4-dialkylpiperazines (GBR 12909 and GBR 13098) and one aryl 1,4-dialkenylpiperazine (GBR 13069) were very potent inhibitors of [3H]dopamine uptake in vitro in tissue slices obtained from rat neostriatum (IC50 values between 40 and 51 nM). Each compound was considerably weaker as an inhibitor of [3H]norepinephrine uptake in tissue slices obtained from rat occipital cortex (IC50 values between 560 and 2600 nM). These compounds thus are relatively specific inhibitors of [3H]dopamine uptake in vitro. The three compounds caused ipsilateral circling in rats with unilateral lesions of the nigrostriatal pathway as well as increased locomotor activity in naive mice, both of which could be greatly attenuated by pretreatment of the rodents with the dopamine receptor antagonist haloperidol. It thus follows that the compounds have dopaminergic activity in vivo. Ex vivo experiments with GBR 13069 (drug administration in vivo, uptake in vitro) suggested that these compounds may have the same relative specificity as dopamine uptake blockers in vivo. These compounds should prove to be useful pharmacological agents.