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Heather Kang

2 papers in the library · 102 citations · publishing 2016

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Ephenidine: A new psychoactive agent with ketamine-like NMDA receptor antagonist properties

Neuropharmacology August 10, 2016 Heather Kang, Pojeong Park, Zuner A. Bortolotto et al. 29 citations

H-MK-801 binding (Ki: 66 nM), implying that it acts at the PCP site of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. It also showed modest activity at dopamine (379 nM) and noradrenaline (841 nM) transporters and at sigma 1 (629 nM) and sigma 2 (722 nM) binding sites. In experiments of extracellular recording of field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (fEPSPs) from area CA1 of rat hippocampal...

Pharmacological Investigations of the Dissociative ‘Legal Highs’ Diphenidine, Methoxphenidine and Analogues

PLoS One June 17, 2016 Jason Wallach, Heather Kang, Tristan Colestock et al. 73 citations

1,2-Diarylethylamines including lanicemine, lefetamine, and remacemide have clinical relevance in a range of therapeutic areas including pain management, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disease and depression. More recently 1,2-diarylethylamines have been sold as 'legal highs' in a number of different forms including powders and tablets. These compounds are sold to circumvent governmental...