Diseño computacional de un psicodélico fotointercambiable mejorado basado en la absorción de luz, la permeación de la

Vito F Palmisano1,2,3, Claudio Agnorelli4, Shirin Faraji1

  • 1Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. shirin.faraji@hhu.de.

Resumen

Los investigadores descubrieron por computación un nuevo compuesto fotoswitchable, PQ-azo-N, N-DMT, para el control preciso de las vías del receptor de serotonina 5-HT2A. Esto ofrece una nueva vía potencial para desarrollar medicamentos antidepresivos de acción rápida.

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