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Formula | C18H37NO2 |
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Molecular Weight | 299.49 | CAS No. | 544-31-0 | |
Solubility (25°C)* | In vitro | Ethanol | 59 mg/mL (197.0 mM) | |
DMSO | 5 mg/mL (16.69 mM) | |||
Water | Insoluble | |||
* <1 mg/ml means slightly soluble or insoluble. * Please note that Selleck tests the solubility of all compounds in-house, and the actual solubility may differ slightly from published values. This is normal and is due to slight batch-to-batch variations. * Room temperature shipping (Stability testing shows this product can be shipped without any cooling measures.) |
Description | Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA, Palmidrol, N-palmitoylethanolamine) is an endogenous fatty acid amide and selectively activates PPAR-α in vitro with an EC50 value of 3.1±0.4 μM. | ||
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In vitro | PEA protects cultured mouse cerebellar granule cells from glutamate toxicity and enhances microglial cell motility. In the mitochondrial fraction from cells stimulated with PEA, steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) and cytochrome P450 enzyme(P450scc) expression increases, both comprising proteins considered to be involved in crucial steps of neurosteroid formation. Moreover, PEA shows a protective effect, reducing malondialdehyde formation in cells treated with L-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine, a glutathione depletor and the effect of PEA is partially inhibited by finasteride, a 5a-reductase inhibitor[2]. | ||
In vivo | PEA attenuates inflammation in wild-type mice but has no effect in mice deficient in PPAR-α. PEA has been shown to inhibit peripheral inflammation and mast-cell degranulation as well as to exert neuroprotective and antinociceptive effects in rats and mice. These actions are accompanied by changes in nitric oxide production, neutrophil influx, and expression of proinflammatory proteins such as inducible nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase-2[1]. In addition to its known anti-inflammatory activity, PEA regulates many pathophysiological processes, including pain perception, convulsions, and neurotoxicity. In the central nervous system (CNS), where PEA is present at detectable levels, its concentrations significantly increase under pathological conditions, such as excitotoxicity, brain ischaemia and neuroinflammation[2]. |
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Effects of Tacrolimus and Other Immune Targeting Compounds on Binge-Like Ethanol Drinking in High Drinking in the Dark Mice [ Neurosci Insights, 2020, 15:2633105520975412] | PubMed: 33294845 |
SIRT2 plays a novel role on progesterone, estradiol and testosterone synthesis via PPARs/LXRα pathways in bovine ovarian granular cells [Xu D, et al. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol, 2019, 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2018.07.005] | PubMed: 30009951 |
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