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Discovery of anticonvulsant activity of abietic acid through application of linear discriminant analysis.

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters (2007-01-20)
Alan Talevi, Mariana Sella Cravero, Eduardo A Castro, Luis E Bruno-Blanch
ABSTRACT

Linear discriminant analysis was performed to derive discriminant functions based on 2D descriptors and capable of classifying anticonvulsant from non-anticonvulsant compounds. Through application in virtual screening of the discriminant function which performed best in the validation steps, abietic acid was identified as a potential new anticonvulsant agent. The anticonvulsant activity of abietic acid at 30 and 100mg/kg was confirmed in the Maximal Electroshock Test, both orally and intraperitoneally.