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Orally active, potent and selective thrombin receptor (PAR-1) antagonist with anti-platelet aggregation efficacy in vitro and in vivo.
Vorapaxar (MK-5348; SCH 530348) is an orally active, potent and selective thrombin receptor (PAR-1) antagonist with good selectivity over a panel of GPCRs, ion channels, and receptors, including PAR-2, PAR-3 and PAR-4. Vorapaxar inhibitis thrombin-induced calcium transient and thymidine incorporation in human coronary artery smoothmuscle cells (HCASMC; Ki = 1.1 and 13 nM, respectively), as well as aggregation in human platelet-rich plasma (PRP) induced by 10 nM thrombin or 15 μM haTRAP (IC50 = 47 and 25 nM, respectively), but not 20 μM ADP or 5 μM collagen. Oral administration (0.1 mg/kg to cynomolgus monkeys) prevents haTRAP-induced platelet aggregation ex vivo.
| Quality Segment | 100 |
| assay | ≥98% (HPLC) |
| form | powder |
| color | white to beige |
| solubility | DMSO: 2 mg/mL, clear |
| storage temp. | -10 to -25°C |
| SMILES string | Fc1cc(ccc1)c2cnc(cc2)\C=C\[C@@H]3[C@H]4[C@@H](C[C@H]5[C@H]3CC[C@H](C5)NC(=O)OCC)C(=O)O[C@@H]4C |
| InChI key | ZBGXUVOIWDMMJE-QHNZEKIYSA-N |

