title: Design of novel nicotinic ligands through 3D database searching.
abstract: A series of quinoline derivatives have been designed on the basis of results from a 3D search of the Cambridge Structural Database using the nicotinic pharmacophore as a query and further modified using molecular modeling. Some of the synthesized compounds show nanomolar affinity for the central nicotinic receptor on rat cerebral cortex.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Firenze, via Ugo Schiff 6, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guandalini
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dei
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Manetti
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scapecchi
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Teodori
authors.forename: M Novella
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Romanelli
authors.forename: Katia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Varani
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Greco
authors.forename: Loredana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Spadola
authors.forename: Ettore
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Novellino
mesh_terms: D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008024:Ligands; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011804:Quinolines / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D011978:Receptors, Nicotinic / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011804:Quinolines; D011978:Receptors, Nicotinic