Muscimol (also known as agarin or pantherine) is the principal psychoactive constituent of Amanita muscaria and Amanita pantherina.
Muscimol is a potent and selective orthosteric agonist for the GABAA receptor and displays sedative-hypnotic, depressant and hallucinogenic psychoactivity. This colorless or white solid is classified as an isoxazole.
Muscimol underwent a phase I clinical trial for epilepsy, but drug development was discontinued.
Muscimol, an agonist for the GABAA receptor, was able to significantly alleviate pain in its peak effect, recent studies from 2023 show. It has since been federally banned in Australia and is pending FDA review in the United States, but scientists believe it may relieve pain as well as some opioids without much of the risk of addiction associated with opioids. |
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