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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The microglial ATP‐gated ion channel P2X7 as a CNS drug target
Contributor:
Bhattacharya, Anindya;
Biber, Knut
imprint:
Wiley, 2016
Published in:Glia
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1002/glia.23001
ISSN:
1098-1136;
0894-1491
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Based on promising preclinical evidence, microglial P2X7 has increasingly being recognized as a target for therapeutic intervention in neurological and psychiatric diseases. However, despite this knowledge no P2X7‐related drug has yet entered clinical trials with respect to CNS diseases. We here discuss the current literature on P2X7 being a drug target and identify unsolved issues and still open questions that have hampered the development of P2X7 dependent therapeutic approaches for CNS diseases. It is concluded here that the lack of brain penetrating P2X7 antagonists is a major obstacle in the field and that central P2X7 is a yet <jats:italic><jats:styled-content>untested</jats:styled-content></jats:italic> clinical drug target. In the CNS, microglial P2X7 activation causes neuroinflammation, which in turn plays a role in various CNS disorders. This has resulted in a surge of brain penetrant P2X7 antagonists. P2X7 is a viable, clinically untested CNS drug target. GLIA 2016;64:1772–1787</jats:p>