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(R)-6-(4-Aminophenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-methyl-3(2H)-pyridazinone

CAS No.:
101328-85-2
Catalog Number:
AG00048G
Molecular Formula:
C11H13N3O
Molecular Weight:
203.2404
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Product Description
Catalog Number:
AG00048G
Chemical Name:
(R)-6-(4-Aminophenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-methyl-3(2H)-pyridazinone
CAS Number:
101328-85-2
Molecular Formula:
C11H13N3O
Molecular Weight:
203.2404
MDL Number:
MFCD09032921
IUPAC Name:
(4R)-3-(4-aminophenyl)-4-methyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyridazin-6-one
InChI:
InChI=1S/C11H13N3O/c1-7-6-10(15)13-14-11(7)8-2-4-9(12)5-3-8/h2-5,7H,6,12H2,1H3,(H,13,15)/t7-/m1/s1
InChI Key:
GDMRFHZLKNYRRO-SSDOTTSWSA-N
SMILES:
C[C@@H]1CC(=O)NN=C1c1ccc(cc1)N
Properties
Complexity:
280  
Compound Is Canonicalized:
Yes
Covalently-Bonded Unit Count:
1  
Defined Atom Stereocenter Count:
1  
Defined Bond Stereocenter Count:
0
Exact Mass:
203.106g/mol
Formal Charge:
0
Heavy Atom Count:
15  
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:
3  
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count:
2  
Isotope Atom Count:
0
Molecular Weight:
203.245g/mol
Monoisotopic Mass:
203.106g/mol
Rotatable Bond Count:
1  
Topological Polar Surface Area:
67.5A^2
Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count:
0
Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count:
0
XLogP3:
0.8  
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Levosimendan: a new therapeutic option in the treatment of primary graft dysfunction after heart transplantation. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 20090501
The management of severe primary graft failure after cardiac transplantation. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 20090401
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Intermittent inotropic infusions combined with prophylactic oral amiodarone for patients with decompensated end-stage heart failure. Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology 20090201
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Relationship between the pharmacokinetics of levosimendan and its effects on cardiovascular system. Current drug metabolism 20090201
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Repetitive dosing of intravenous levosimendan improves pulmonary hemodynamics in patients with pulmonary hypertension: results of a pilot study. Journal of clinical pharmacology 20090101
Levosimendan enhances force generation of diaphragm muscle from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 20090101
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Rescuing a failing heart: putting on the squeeze. Nature medicine 20090101
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Levosimendan for bridging in a pediatric patient with Alström syndrome awaiting heart-lung transplantation. Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society 20081101
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A randomized trial evaluating different modalities of levosimendan administration in cardiac surgery patients with myocardial dysfunction. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 20081001
[Determination of levosimendan and its main metabolites in human plasma with HPLC-MS/MS method]. Yao xue xue bao = Acta pharmaceutica Sinica 20081001
Use of levosimendan for cardiogenic shock in a patient with the apical ballooning syndrome. Annals of internal medicine 20080902
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The case for levosimendan. Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine 20080901
Prospective observational study of levosimendan and weaning of difficult-to-wean ventilator dependent intensive care patients. Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine 20080901
Effects of levosimendan versus dobutamine on left ventricular diastolic function in patients with cardiogenic shock after primary angioplasty. International journal of cardiology 20080818
Rescue peri-operative management of the patient with giant electrical storm and severe left ventricular dysfunction: support by levosimendan and intraaortic balloon counterpulsation. Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery 20080801
Levosimendan infusion improves haemodynamics in elderly heart failure patients undergoing urgent hip fracture repair. European journal of anaesthesiology 20080801
Natriuretic peptide-guided levosimendan therapy for heart failure: a promising new approach. International journal of cardiology 20080801
The prolonged lowering effect of levosimendan on brain natriuretic peptide levels in patients with decompansated heart failure: clinical implications. International journal of cardiology 20080801
Ca2+ sensitizer superior to catecholamine during myocardial stunning? European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery 20080801
Novel biologic mechanisms of levosimendan and its effect on the failing heart. Expert opinion on investigational drugs 20080801
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The hemodynamic and pharmacokinetic interactions between chronic use of oral levosimendan and digoxin in patients with NYHA Classes II-III heart failure. International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 20080801
Both levosimendan and dobutamine treatments result in significant reduction of NT-proBNP levels, but levosimendan has better and prolonged neurohormonal effects than dobutamine. International journal of cardiology 20080721
Defining the binding site of levosimendan and its analogues in a regulatory cardiac troponin C-troponin I complex. Biochemistry 20080715
Effects of levosimendan versus dobutamine on long-term survival of patients with cardiogenic shock after primary coronary angioplasty. International journal of cardiology 20080704
Effects of levosimendan on indocyanine green plasma disappearance rate and the gastric mucosal-arterial pCO2 gradient in abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery. Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 20080701
Safety and effectiveness of levosimendan in patients with predominant right heart failure. Herz 20080701
Protective effects of levosimendan and iloprost on lung injury induced by limb ischemia-reperfusion: a rabbit model. The Journal of surgical research 20080601
Repeated infusions of levosimendan: well tolerated and improves functional capacity in decompensated heart failure - a single-centre experience. Heart, lung & circulation 20080601
Levosimendan but not norepinephrine improves microvascular oxygenation during experimental septic shock. Critical care medicine 20080601
Inhaled levosimendan reduces mortality and release of proinflammatory mediators in a rat model of experimental ventilator-induced lung injury. Critical care medicine 20080601
Inotropic agents improve the peripheral microcirculation of patients with end-stage chronic heart failure. Journal of cardiac failure 20080601
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Perioperative cardiac evaluation: the importance of cardiac failure management. Southern medical journal 20080601
A role for the RISK pathway and K(ATP) channels in pre- and post-conditioning induced by levosimendan in the isolated guinea pig heart. British journal of pharmacology 20080501
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Primary graft failure and Ca2+ sensitizers after heart transplantation. Transplantation proceedings 20080501
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Orally available levosimendan dose-related positive inotropic and lusitropic effect in conscious chronically instrumented normal and heart failure dogs. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20080401
Pharmacokinetics of intravenous levosimendan and its metabolites in subjects with hepatic impairment. Journal of clinical pharmacology 20080401
Preoperative levosimendan in heart failure patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. The Netherlands journal of medicine 20080401
Role of levosimendan in sepsis and septic shock. Current opinion in anaesthesiology 20080401
Improvement in Doppler alternans in patients with severe heart failure: Levosimendan versus dobutamin. International journal of cardiology 20080328
Effects of levosimendan on flow-mediated vasodilation and soluble adhesion molecules in patients with advanced chronic heart failure. Atherosclerosis 20080301
Levosimendan in patients with acute myocardial ischaemia undergoing emergency surgical revascularization. European journal of anaesthesiology 20080301
Levosimendan and ventriculo-arterial coupling. Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 20080301
Inoprotection review. Anaesthesia and intensive care 20080301
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Levosimendan use in several scenarios of acute heart failure. Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia 20080301
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Effect of levosimendan on right ventricular systolic and diastolic functions in patients with ischaemic heart failure. International journal of clinical practice 20080201
Levosimendan: current status and future prospects. Current opinion in anaesthesiology 20080201
Metabolism of OR-1896, a metabolite of levosimendan, in rats and humans. Xenobiotica; the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems 20080201
Management of pulmonary hypertension in the intensive care unit. Critical care medicine 20080201
Overview of emerging pharmacologic agents for acute heart failure syndromes. European journal of heart failure 20080201
Peripartum cardiomyopathy: a new successful setting for levosimendan. International journal of cardiology 20080124
Effect of levosimendan on E/E' ratio in patients with ischemic heart failure. International journal of cardiology 20080111
Levosimendan has an inhibitory effect on platelet function. American journal of hematology 20080101
Myocardial stunning following no flow ischaemia is diminished by levosimendan or cariporide, without benefits of combined administration. Resuscitation 20080101
Effects of levosimendan on myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury. European journal of anaesthesiology 20080101
Early and sustained haemodynamic improvement with levosimendan compared to intraaortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP) in cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction. Acute cardiac care 20080101
Treatment of experimental verapamil poisoning with levosimendan utilizing a rodent model of drug toxicity. Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 20080101
Comparative effects of levosimendan, OR-1896, OR-1855, dobutamine, and milrinone on vascular resistance, indexes of cardiac function, and O2 consumption in dogs. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 20080101
Inotropes in the management of acute heart failure. Critical care medicine 20080101
New pharmacologic therapies for acute heart failure. Critical care medicine 20080101
Levosimendan effect on spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion injury following aortic clamping. Journal of cardiac surgery 20080101
Protection of the spinal cord from ischemia: comparative effects of levosimendan and iloprost. European surgical research. Europaische chirurgische Forschung. Recherches chirurgicales europeennes 20080101
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Levosimendan versus dobutamine in heart failure patients treated chronically with carvedilol. Cardiovascular therapeutics 20080101
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Design, synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of 6-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-3(2H)-pyridazinone derivatives as cardiotonic agents. Arzneimittel-Forschung 20080101
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[New pharmacological treatment approaches to cardiogenic shock]. Der Internist 20071201
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Effects of levosimendan on coronary artery flow and cardiac performance in patients with advanced heart failure. European journal of heart failure 20071201
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Pharmacologic therapy for acute heart failure. Cardiology clinics 20071101
Antieosinophilic activity of simendans. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20071001
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Efficacy and safety of perioperative infusion of levosimendan in patients with compromised cardiac function undergoing open-heart surgery: importance of early use. European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery 20071001
The gender differences in the relaxation to levosimendan of human internal mammary artery. Cardiovascular drugs and therapy 20071001
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New pharmacologic options in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes and myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury: potential role of levosimendan. Minerva cardioangiologica 20071001
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A 6-month follow-up of intermittent levosimendan administration effect on systolic function, specific activity questionnaire, and arrhythmia in advanced heart failure. Journal of cardiac failure 20070901
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Patients with advanced heart failure and the effects of levosimendan. The American journal of cardiology 20070815
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Effects of levosimendan on quality of life and emotional stress in advanced heart failure patients. Cardiovascular drugs and therapy 20070801
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Levosimendan in acute decompensation of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity. International journal of cardiology 20070612
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Vasodilating mechanisms of levosimendan: involvement of K+ channels. Journal of pharmacological sciences 20070501
Could Ca2+ sensitizers rescue patients from chronic congestive heart failure? British journal of pharmacology 20070401
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The use of levosimendan in comparison and in combination with dobutamine in the treatment of decompensated heart failure. Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy 20070401
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The effects of levosimendan in cardiac surgery patients with poor left ventricular function. Anesthesia and analgesia 20070401
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Direct myocardial effects of levosimendan in humans with left ventricular dysfunction: alteration of force-frequency and relaxation-frequency relationships. Circulation 20070313
Levosimendan improves right ventriculovascular coupling in a porcine model of right ventricular dysfunction. Critical care medicine 20070301
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Effects of levosimendan and dobutamine in experimental acute endotoxemia: a preliminary controlled study. Intensive care medicine 20070301
Dear levosimendan, the right ventricle will thank you! Critical care medicine 20070301
Levosimendan and prostaglandin E1 for uptitration of beta-blockade in patients with refractory, advanced chronic heart failure. European journal of heart failure 20070201
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Duration of the haemodynamic action of a 24-h infusion of levosimendan in patients with congestive heart failure. European journal of heart failure 20070101
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Mechanisms of a reduced cardiac output and the effects of milrinone and levosimendan in a model of infant cardiopulmonary bypass. Critical care medicine 20070101
Use of levosimendan, a new inodilator, for postoperative myocardial stunning in a premature neonate. Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 20070101
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Effect of severe renal failure and haemodialysis on the pharmacokinetics of levosimendan and its metabolites. Clinical pharmacokinetics 20070101
Successful use of levosimendan in a patient during cardiopulmonary bypass. Journal of cardiac surgery 20070101
The utility of levosimendan in the treatment of heart failure. Annals of medicine 20070101
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A strategy for high-throughput analysis of levosimendan and its metabolites in human plasma samples using sequential negative and positive ionization liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometric detection. Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM 20070101
Medical support and surgery of the failing heart: levosimendan. Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society 20070101
Evaluation of the clinical, hemodynamic and neurohormonal response to levosimendan administration in decompensated heart failure patients. One-month follow-up. Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology 20070101
Synthesis and bioactivity of 6-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-3(2H)-pyridazinone derivatives. Arzneimittel-Forschung 20070101
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Effect of levosimendan on ventricular arrhythmias and prognostic autonomic indexes in patients with decompensated advanced heart failure secondary to ischemic or dilated cardiomyopathy. The American journal of cardiology 20061215
Long-term effects of levosimendan infusion on inflammatory processes and sFas in patients with severe heart failure. European journal of heart failure 20061201
Effects of serial levosimendan infusions on left ventricular performance and plasma biomarkers of myocardial injury and neurohormonal and immune activation in patients with advanced heart failure. Heart (British Cardiac Society) 20061201
Effects of levosimendan on right ventricular function in patients with advanced heart failure. The American journal of cardiology 20061201
A review of levosimendan in the treatment of heart failure. Vascular health and risk management 20061201
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Effects of levosimendan versus dobutamine on pressure load-induced right ventricular failure. Critical care medicine 20061101
The vasodilatory effects of levosimendan on the human internal mammary artery. Anesthesia and analgesia 20061101
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Testing new drugs for heart failure in children. Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 20060901
Evidence-based use of levosimendan in different clinical settings. European heart journal 20060801
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The levosimendan metabolite OR-1896 elicits vasodilation by activating the K(ATP) and BK(Ca) channels in rat isolated arterioles. British journal of pharmacology 20060701
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The effect of levosimendan during long-term amiodarone treatment in dogs. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology 20060701
Beneficial outcome after prostaglandin-induced post-partum cardiac arrest using levosimendan and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 20060701
Levosimendan protects against experimental endotoxemic acute renal failure. American journal of physiology. Renal physiology 20060601
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Levosimendan or milrinone in the type 2 diabetic patient with low ejection fraction undergoing elective coronary artery surgery. Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 20060601
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