| Assay Method Information | |
| | Determination of a Possible Activity on hERG |
| Description: | The hERG (human ether-A-go-go-related gene) channel corresponds to an important anti-target for potential new drugs since its inhibition may lead to sudden death. In order to establish whether the compounds of the present invention act on hERG, the following experiment was carried out.The in vitro effects of the compounds indicated in Table 5 on the hERG potassium channel current (a surrogate for Iκr, the rapidly activating, delayed rectifier cardiac potassium current) expressed in mammalian cells were evaluated at room temperature using the QPatch HT (Sophion Bioscience A/S, Denmark), an automatic parallel patch clamp system. Each compound indicated in Table 5 was evaluated at 0.1, 1, 3, 10 and 30 μM with each concentration tested in a minimum of two cells (n≥2). The duration of exposure to each compound concentration was 3 minutes. A summary of the results is shown in Table 5. The positive control (E4031) confirmed the sensitivity of the test system to hERG inhibition (98.6% of inhibition at 0.5 μM). Generally, compounds displaying an IC50> about 0.5 μM are regarded as not acting on hERG and thus as safe. |
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