“…The recent termination of the phase 1 clinical trials of JDTic due to undisclosed adverse effects (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01431586) has further spurred the search for new, safe and shorter acting KOR-selective antagonists. As discussed above, while several new non-peptide KOR antagonists have recently been reported, including some with finite durations of KOR antagonist activity (Runyon et al, 2010;Peters et al, 2011) or with short residence time in the brain (Grimwood et al, 2011;Mitch et al, 2011) after peripheral administration, reports of orally active KOR antagonists have been limited to only four KOR-selective antagonists: JDTic (Beardsley et al, 2005), an analogue of JDTic (Beardsley et al, 2010), an aminobenzyloxyarylamide (Mitch et al, 2011), and a biphenylsulfonamide (Chang et al, 2011). To date, p.o.…”