Anticonvulsant activity of milacemide.
The anticonvulsant activity of a new drug, milacemide (2-(pentylamino)-acetamide), has been studied in animal models of convulsions like those induced by bicuculline, pentylenetetrazol, picrotoxin, strychnine, inhibitors of GABA synthesis as 3-mercaptopropionic acid, allylglycine, isoniazid and thiosemicarbazide and electroshock. Milacemide is particularly effective in inhibiting the convulsions induced by bicuculline. The ED50 is 5.7 mg/kg by oral route and the activity lasts for more than 48 hr. It is less active against pentylenetetrazol and only marginally active against electroshock. It has not be found active against the other types of convulsions. Milacemide has a low toxicity (LD50: 2585 mg/kg in the mouse) and alters the behaviour of mouse, rat and monkey, only at high doses (greater than or equal to 1000 mg/kg). Milacemide seems to be specially free of sedative potential.[1]References
- Anticonvulsant activity of milacemide. van Dorsser, W., Barris, D., Cordi, A., Roba, J. Archives internationales de pharmacodynamie et de thérapie. (1983) [Pubmed]
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