| Assay Method Information | |
| | Calcium Fluorescence Measurements |
| Description: | Cells were seeded into black-walled, clear-bottom, 96-well plates at a density of 80000 cell/well, in RPMI (without Phenol Red, without L-glutamine; Gibco LifeTechnologies, CA) supplemented with 10% dialyzed FBS. Following 18-h incubation with tetracycline, the cells were loaded with 2 mM Ca2+-sensitive fluorescent dye Fluo-4/AM (Molecular Probes) in Hanks' balanced saline solution (HBSS, Gibco LifeTechnologies, CA) with 20 μM Hepes (Sigma) and 2.5 mM probenecid (Sigma), for 1 h at 37° C. The cells were washed three times with HBSS to remove extracellular dye. Fluorescence signals were measured by using the fluorescence microplate reader Flexstation III (Molecular Devices) at sampling intervals of 1.5 s for 60 s.The antagonist potency was determined using the EC80 of the quisqualate used as agonist and the potentiation of mGlu5 activation was determined using the EC20 of the agonist (quisqualate or glutamate). The compounds were applied 10 minutes before the application of the agonist.The negative allosteric modulator activity (expressed as IC50) and the positive allosteric modulator activity (expressed as EC50) of the compounds of the invention for the mGlu5 receptors is between 0.1 and 1000 nM. For instance, and in particular compounds 31 and 48 have an IC50 of 13.5 and 2.02 nM respectively, and compound 34 has an EC50 of 107.2 nM. |
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