Alzheimer - 1PB8-Q1 - N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor

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1PB8-Q1
N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor

N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) antagonists are recognised as potentially useful as a therapy for Alzheimer's Disease - see DDT (2005) 10.11 p 750. Over stimulation of this receptor appears to be related to neurodegeneration and blocking it has some therpeutic benefits. This approach is rather different from many of the other Alzheimer's Disease drugs which are being developed. This queries is based on a different crystal structure to 1pbq-q1 and 1pb7-q1.

The test jobs times took longer than average and gave very few hits.

H Furukawa and E Gouaux EMBO J (2003) 22.12 p2873-85