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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1989
Phil Skolnick, Potomac, MD (US);
Anita Lewin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Juan-Carlos Marvizon, Madrid, ES;
James Monn, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Kenner Rice, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for the treatment of neuropsychopharmacological disorders which are associated with or result from excessive activation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor complex, which method comprises administering an effective neuropsychopharmacological disorder-treating amount of a compound possessing partial agonist properties for the strychnine insensitive glycine modulatory sites of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. Exemplary of partial agonists which are useful in the method of the invention are 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid, and associated derivates thereof. Novel injectable pharmaceutical compositions are also disclosed.