Taking as models the polyamine toxin fraction FTX from the funnel-web spider venom, and the guanidinium moiety of guanethidine, a series of azaalkane-1, ω-diguanidinium salts were obtained. Some of them blocked ion fluxes through the neuronal nicotinic receptors for acetylcholine (nAChR). The blockade was exerted at submicromolar concentrations, suggesting a highly selective interaction with the nAChR. In fact, the active compounds on ...
[Coxon, Geoffrey D.; Furman, Brian L.; Harvey, Alan L.; McTavish, John; Mooney, Mark H.; Arastoo, Mahmoud; Kennedy, Alan R.; Tettey, Justice M.; Waigh, Roger D. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2009 , vol. 52, # 11 p. 3457 - 3463]