Both the enantiomers of 2,3-dihydro-1,4-benzodioxin-2-carboxylic acid are valuable chiral synthons for enantiospecific synthesis of therapeutic agents such as (S)-doxazosin mesylate, WB 4101, MKC 242, 2,3-dihydro-2-hydroxymethyl-1,4-benzodioxin, and N-[2,4-oxo-1,3-thiazolidin-3-yl]-2,3-dihydro-1,4-benzodioxin-2-carboxamide. Pharmaceutical applications require these enantiomers in optically pure...

It is widely accepted that fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) plays a central role in the hydrolysis of anandamide. However, we found a second N-acylethanolamine hydrolase in animal tissues which hydrolyzed anandamide at acidic pH. This "acid amidase" was first detected with the particulate fraction of human megakaryoblastic CMK cells, and was solubilized by freezing and thawing without detergen...

Anandamide is an arachidonic acid-derived endogenous cannabinoid that regulates normal physiological functions and pathophysiological responses within the central nervous system and in the periphery. Several cytochrome P450 (P450) isoforms metabolize anandamide to form hydroxylated and epoxygenated products. Human CYP2B6 and CYP2D6, which are expressed heterogeneously throughout the brain, exhi...

objective(s): opioids and cannabinoids are two important compounds that have been shown to influence the activity of magnocellular neurons (mcns) of supraoptic nucleus (son). the interaction between opioidergic and cannabinoidergic systems in various structures of the brain and spinal cord is now well established, but not in the mcns of son. materials and methods: in this study, whole cell patc...