Synonyms: AZD 1981 | AZD-1981
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: AZD1981 was an investigational compound being assessed as a potential treatment for asthma. Mechanistically it is a potent, orally active, selective and reversible antagonist of the DP2 receptor (CRTH2).
This compound is now included for repurposing in the AstaZeneca's Open Innovation Pharmacology Toolbox. It was also Case Study (2) in the AZ 2014 review paper [1]. ![]() Ligand Activity Visualisation ChartsThese are box plot that provide a unique visualisation, summarising all the activity data for a ligand taken from ChEMBL and GtoPdb across multiple targets and species. Click on a plot to see the median, interquartile range, low and high data points. A value of zero indicates that no data are available. A separate chart is created for each target, and where possible the algorithm tries to merge ChEMBL and GtoPdb targets by matching them on name and UniProt accession, for each available species. However, please note that inconsistency in naming of targets may lead to data for the same target being reported across multiple charts. ✖ |
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Immunopharmacology Comments |
AZD1981 acts as an antagonist of the GPCR, DP2 (a.k.a. CRTH2) expressed by Th2 lymphocytes and eosinophils. This mechanism would be expected to inhibit prostaglandin D2-driven chemotaxis. |
Immunopharmacology Disease | |||
Disease | X-Refs | Comment | References |
Asthma |
Disease Ontology:
DOID:2841 OMIM: 600807 |
Phase 2 clinical candidate with predicted anti-asthmatic activity (see NCT00758589 for example). Has also completed Phase 2 clinical trials for COPD (NCT00690482) and chronic idiopathic urticaria (NCT02031679). |