Synthesis of all-trans anandamide: A substrate for fatty acid amide hydrolase with dual effects on rabbit platelet activation

…, IN Lykakis, C Chatgilialoglu, A Siafaka-Kapadai

Index: Ferreri, Carla; Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris; Lykakis, Ioannis N.; Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos; Siafaka-Kapadai, Athanassia Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2008 , vol. 16, # 18 p. 8359 - 8365

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Abstract

Anandamide (AEA) presents the four double bonds in the cis configuration, deriving from the arachidonic acid moiety. In the context of an antisense strategy based on the double bond configuration, all-trans AEA (t-AEA) was synthesized in high yield starting from all-trans methyl arachidonate and ethanolamine in the presence of KCN. t-AEA was assayed on rabbit platelet aggregation, obtaining effect only at high concentrations (> 10− 4M) after an ...