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A selective M4 positive allosteric modulator built at Pfizer and carried into schizophrenia trials by Cerevel and then AbbVie, whose phase 2 programme failed to beat placebo in November 2024.
LY2033298 is a preclinical positive allosteric modulator of the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor; it was the first small molecule selective enough to test whether activating M4 on its own could produce an antipsychotic effect.
VU0467154 is a preclinical positive allosteric modulator of the M4 muscarinic receptor, built at Vanderbilt as an in vivo tool compound, and it is the molecule most of the rodent evidence for the M4 antipsychotic hypothesis actually rests on.
An M1/M4-preferring muscarinic agonist that failed as an Alzheimer's drug in the 1990s and returned in 2024 as the active antipsychotic half of Cobenfy, the first schizophrenia treatment approved without dopamine receptor blockade.