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Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volume 57, 2017

The Discovery of Suvorexant, the First Orexin Receptor Drug for Insomnia

Abstract

Historically, pharmacological therapies have used mechanisms such as γ-aminobutyric acid A (GABA) receptor potentiation to drive sleep through broad suppression of central nervous system activity. With the discovery of orexin signaling loss as the etiology underlying narcolepsy, a disorder associated with hypersomnolence, orexin antagonism emerged as an alternative approach to attenuate orexin-induced wakefulness more selectively. Dual orexin receptor antagonists (DORAs) block the activity of orexin 1 and 2 receptors to both reduce the threshold to transition into sleep and attenuate orexin-mediated arousal. Among DORAs evaluated clinically, suvorexant has pharmacokinetic properties engineered for a plasma half-life appropriate for rapid sleep onset and maintenance at low to moderate doses. Unlike GABA receptor modulators, DORAs promote both non-rapid eye movement (NREM) and REM sleep, do not disrupt sleep stage–specific quantitative electroencephalogram spectral profiles, and allow somnolence indistinct from normal sleep. The preservation of cognitive performance and the ability to arouse to salient stimuli after DORA administration suggest further advantages over historical therapies.

Keyword(s): hyperarousal, insomnia, orexin receptor antagonists, orexins, sleep, suvorexant
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The Discovery of Suvorexant, the First Orexin Receptor Drug for Insomnia
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 57, 509 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-010716-104837
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