SX-3228

SX-3228 is a sedative and hypnotic drug used in scientific research. It has similar effects to sedative-hypnotic benzodiazepine drugs, but is structurally distinct and so is classed as a nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic.

SX-3228 is a subtype-selective GABAA positive allosteric modulator acting primarily at the α1 subtype. It thus has similar effects to other α1-selective drugs such as zolpidem and zaleplon in animal studies.[1][2] It only partly substitutes for ethanol, and is a strong sedative-hypnotic with only limited anxiolytic effects which appear only at doses that also produce significant sedation.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Sanger DJ. The effects of new hypnotic drugs in rats trained to discriminate ethanol. Behavioural Pharmacology. 1997 Aug;8(4):287-92.
  2. ^ Griebel G, Perrault G, Tan S, Schoemaker H, Sanger DJ. Comparison of the pharmacological properties of classical and novel BZ-omega receptor ligands. Behavioural Pharmacology. 1999 Sep;10(5):483-95.
  3. ^ Griebel G, Perrault G, Sanger DJ. Limited anxiolytic-like effects of non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in rodents. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 1998;12(4):356-65.
  4. ^ Alvariño F, Monti JM, Jantos H, Monti D. Effect of SX-3228, a selective ligand for the BZ1 receptor, on sleep and waking during the light-dark cycle in the rat. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. 1999 Aug;32(8):1007-14.