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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Ther. 2017 May 18;179:1–16. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2017.05.002

Table 2.

Drugs acting at α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Drug class Agent Reference
Nonselective agonists ACh
Nicotine
Albuquerque et al. (2009)
Selective α7 agonists Choline
A-582941
AR-R1779
PHA-543613
PNU-282987
Albuquerque et al. (2009)
Millar et al. (2014)
Papke et al., (2004)
α7 Partial agonists Encenicline
GTS-21
Millar et al. (2014)
Meyer et al., (1998)
Briggs et al., (1995)
Selective α7 antagonists Methyllycaconitine
α-Conotoxin
Millar et al. (2014)
Positive allosteric modulators
 Type 1 Galantamine
LY-20087101
Ivermectin
Williams et al. (2011)
Millar et al. (2014)
 Type 2 PNU-120596
TQS
A-867744
 Type 1/Type 2 intermediate JNJ1930942