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17th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE CANNABINOIDS June 26 ‐ 30, 2007 Saint‐Sauveur, Québec Canada PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS 17th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE CANNABINOIDS Program and Abstracts June 26 ‐ 30, 2007 Manoir Saint‐Sauveur Saint‐Sauveur, Québec Canada Copyright © 2007 International Cannabinoid Research Society, Inc. Department of Psychology University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 USA World Wide Web Site: http://www.cannabinoidsociety.org Logo by Natalia Realini Produced by Cortical Systematics LLC ISBN: 0-9786040-1-6 These abstracts may be cited in the scientific literature. The citation format is as follows: Author(s), Abstract Title (2007) 17th Annual Symposium on the Cannabinoids, Burlington, Vermont, International Cannabinoid Research Society, Page #. International Cannabinoid Research Society 2007 Symposium on the Cannabinoids June 26 – 30, Manoir Saint-Sauveur Saint-Sauveur, Québec, Canada ICRS Symposium & Young Investigator Award Sponsor Sanofi-Aventis Sponsors GW Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Allergan, Inc. AstraZeneca R&D, Montreal Bayer HealthCare Bedrocan BV Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. Cayman Chemical Company Eli Lilly & Company Elsohly Laboratories Merck & Co., Inc. – USA Pfizer, Inc. Valeant Canada Ltd. Government Sponsors National Institute on Drug Abuse NIH – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Non-Profit Organization Sponsor Kang Tsou Memorial Fund Tourism Sponsor Tourisme Montréal Conference Planner / ICRS Director Diane Mahadeen Local Conference Organizers Suzanne Desjardins, Health Canada and Josée Miron, Health Canada Program Committee Tiziana Bisogno Christopher Fowler Richard Musty Roger Pertwee Jenny Wiley Abstract and Program Coordinators Jason Schechter and Nicole Schechter ICRS Executive Committee President Christopher Fowler President-Elect Roger Pertwee Past President Daniela Parolaro Secretary Tiziana Rubino International Secretary Roger Pertwee Treasurer Jenny Wiley Executive Director Richard Musty Executive Newsletter Editor Brian Thomas Student Representative Alessia Ligresti Webmaster Jason Schechter T H 17 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE CANNABINOIDS 2007 Program . Registration: June 26, 2007 (16.00 – 20.00) Day 1 Wednesday, June 27th 8.20 – 8.30 Opening Remarks Session 1. SAR Studies and New Synthetic Molecules Page # Chairs: Drs. Brian Thomas and Giulio Muccioli Ying Pei, Richard W Mercier, Jenine UTILIZING A GLOBAL SET OF Sanzari, Arpad Kastal, Ganesh A Thakur, CYSTEINE SUBSTITUTION Dai Lu, Lakshmipathi Pandarinathan, STRATEGY TO ELUCIDATE LIGAND 8.30 Alexander M Zvonok, BINDING MOTIFS IN HUMAN 1 Dow Hurst, Patricia H Reggio AND MOUSE CB2: LIGAND-BASED and Alexandros Makriyannis STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY Karin Worm, Q Jean Zhou, Gabriel J Stabley, Robert N DeHaven, NON-PSYCHOTROPIC BIARYL Nathalie Conway-James, 8.45 CANNABINOID AGONISTS 2 Christopher J LaBuda, Michael Koblish, Patrick J Little and Roland E Dolle GEM-DIMETHYLHEPTYL ANALOGS John Huffman, Jianhong Chen, Ross Mabon, OF DELTA-8-THC, 1-DEOXY AND 9.00 Jianzhong Lu, Jenny Wiley and Billy Martin 3 1-METHOXY-DELTA-8-THC Session 2. Receptor Structure and Signal Transduction Chairs: Drs. Michelle Glass and Monica Bari Liang Nong, Tracy Sherwood, EXPRESSION OF CANNABINOID 9.15 Marisela Agudelo, Shilpa Mikkilineni, RECEPTOR 2 (CB2) IN THE MOUSE 4 Cathy Newton and Thomas W Klein B CELL LINES K46U AND 18.81 E Scott Graham, Natasha L Grimsey, CANNABINOID CB1 RECEPTOR 9.30 Catherine E Goodfellow, Emma L Scotter, ANTIBODIES ARE NOT ALL 5 Megan J Dowie and Michelle Glass CREATED EQUAL! 9.45 – 10.15 Coffee Break i Session 2 (cont.) Brian Thomas, Yanan Zhang, Brian Gilmour, Hernan Navarro, BIVALENT LIGANDS TARGETING 10.15 Anne Gilliam, Marcus Brackeen CANNABINOID RECEPTOR OLIGOMERS 6 and Herbert Seltzman CB1 CANNABINOID RECEPTORS DIMERIZE WITH BETA2 ADRENERGIC Brian Hudson and Melanie Kelly 10.30 RECEPTORS TO INFLUENCE 7 RECEPTOR TRAFFICKING Gemma Baillie, Graeme Finnie, Paul Macbeath, John Miskelly, ALLOSTERIC MODULATION OF THE 10.45 Sonia Watson, Lesley Stevenson, CANNABINOID CB1 RECEPTOR: NOVEL 8 Tesmol George, Anu Mahadevan, ALLOSTERIC MODULATORS Raj Razdan, Roger Pertwee and Ruth Ross CAN THE LIPID BILAYER CONTRIBUTE Patricia Reggio, Dow Hurst TO CANNABINOID CB1 RECEPTOR 11.00 and Diane Lynch 9 CONSTITUTIVE ACTIVITY? BETA-ARRESTIN2 AFFECTS CB1 Chris Breivogel and Vanita Puri 11.15 LOCALIZATION & DOWNREGULATION 10 11.30 – 13.00 Lunch 13.00 – 15.30 Poster Sessions 1 - 3 Session 3. Endocannabinoids and Related Lipids: Biosynthesis and Inactivation Chairs: Drs. Ruth Ross and Liang Nong THE PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR- Christopher Fowler and Annasara Lenman ACTIVATED RECEPTOR-γ AGONIST 15.30 CIGLITAZONE INHIBITS FATTY 11 ACID AMIDE HYDROLASE DISCOVERY OF A Natsuo Ueda, Xing-Hua Jin, 15.45 Yasuo Okamoto, Jun Morishita, CALCIUM-INDEPENDENT 12 Kazuhito Tsuboi and Takeharu Tonai PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE N-ACYLTRANSFERASE (INAT) James Burston, Jenny Wiley, EVALUATION OF N-ARACHIDONYL 16.00 Katherine Falenski, Dana Selley MALEIMIDE (NAM) AS A POSSIBLE 13 and Laura Sim-Selley INHIBITOR OF 2-AG DEGRADATION Takayuki Sugiura, Keisuke Nakajima, AN ENDOGENOUS LIGAND FOR GPR55, 16.15 Seishi Kishimoto and Saori Oka A G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR 14 ii Session 3 (cont.) FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT THE ENDOCYTOSIS INHIBITOR GENISTEIN Lina Thors, Johan Eriksson REDUCES ANANDAMIDE UPTAKE 16.30 and Christopher J Fowler 15 SECONDARY TO INHIBITION OF FATTY ACID AMIDE HYDROLASE Yan Sun, Saoirse O’Sullivan, BOTH AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS 16.45 Steve Alexander, David Kendall OF CANNABINOIDS RECEPTORS CAN 16 and Andrew Bennett ACTIVATE PPAR ALPHA 17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break Herbert Schuel, Gennady A Buznikov, Lyuda A Nikitina, Vladimir V Bezuglov, ENDOCANNABINOID-SIGNALING 17.30 Maria EY Francisco, Gunnar Boysen, REGULATES DEVELOPMENT OF 17 Iris N Obispo-Peak, Robert E Peterson SEA URCHIN EMBRYOS and Jean M Lauder OPPOSITE EFFECTS OF AM404, AN INHIBITOR OF ENDOCANNABINOID Jose Inacio Carvalho, Alline Campos, UPTAKE INJECTED INTO THE VENTRAL 17.45 Frederico Ferreira and Francisco Guimarães HIPPOCAMPUS OF STRESSED OR NON- 18 STRESSED RATS SUBMITTED TO THE ELEVATED PLUS MAZE Kang Tsou Memorial Lecture Dr. Jean-Pierre Després Québec Heart Institute, Hŏpital Laval 18.00 – 19.00 Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Université Laval Visceral adiposity: A new therapeutic target for the optimal management of the risk of type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease Page P1 19.30 Dinner Notes: iii Day 2 Thursday, June 28th Session 4. Immune System Chairs: Drs. Stephen Alexander and Heather Bradshaw Xavier Thuru, Mathias Chamaillard, Meliha Karsak, Caroline Dubuquoy, CANNABINOID RECEPTOR 2 IS Edmone Erdual, Emilie Gantier, REQUIRED FOR HOMEOSTATIC David Philippe, Christel Rousseaux, 8.30 CONTROL OF INTESTINAL 19 Pierre Dubus, Jacek Stalewski, INFLAMMATION Frederique Menzaghi, Andreas Zimmer, Pierre Riviere and Pierre Desreumaux Sandor Batkai, Mohamraj Rajesh, Douglas Osei-Hyiaman, Hao Pan, CANNABINOID-2 RECEPTOR MEDIATES Partha Mukhopadhyay, PROTECTION AGAINST HEPATIC 8.45 Judith Harvey-White, 20 ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY John W Huffman, Bin Gao, George Kunos and Pal Pacher DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL- Prakash Nagarkatti, Venkatesh Hegde, INDUCED PERITONEAL 9.00 Shweta Hegde and Mitzi Nagarkatti INFILTRATION OF NEUTROPHILS 21 IS MAST-CELL DEPENDENT MICE LACKING THE CB1 RECEPTOR Marnie Duncan, Winnie Ho, ARE RESISTANT TO FEVER INDUCED 9.15 Keith Sharkey and Quentin Pittman BY THE ENDOTOXIN 22 LIPOPOLYSACCARIDE STRESS-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN Matthew Hill, Ryan McLaughlin, LIMBIC ENDOCANNABINOID CONTENT Victor Viau, Boris Gorzalka 9.30 IN THE RAT: CORRELATIONS TO HPA 23 and Cecilia Hillard AXIS ACTIVATION DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL TREATMENT AMELIORATES Mitzi Nagarkatti, Venkatesh Hegde, T CELL-MEDIATED HEPATITIS BY 9.45 Shweta Hegde and Prakash Nagarkatti 24 SUPPRESSING IMMUNE RESPONSE IN A CB1 RECEPTOR-SPECIFIC MECHANISM 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break Session 5. Learning, Memory and Other Central Functions Chairs: Drs. Aron Lichtman and Gregory Gerdeman CHRONIC EFFECTS OF EXOGENOUS Anushka V Goonawardena, Gernot Riedel CANNABINOID AGONIST/ANTAGONIST 10.30 and Robert E Hampson ON SHORT-TERM MEMORY 25 PERFORMANCE IN RATS EFFECT OF CB1 RECEPTOR Sara Jane Ward and Ellen Walker ANTAGONISM AND EXTINCTION 10.45 LEARNING ON RELAPSE 26 BEHAVIOR IN MICE iv Session 5 (cont.) THE FATTY ACID AMIDE HYDROLASE (FAAH) INHIBITOR URB597 PRODUCES Carmen Mazzola, Julie Medalie, IMPROVEMENTS IN LONG-TERM Leigh Panlilio, Marcello Solinas, MEMORY RETENTION THAT ARE 11.00 Filippo Drago, Steven Goldberg MEDIATED BY PPAR-α TYPE 27 and Sevil Yasar PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR- ACTIVATED RECEPTORS (PPAR-α) AND NOT BY CANNABINOID CB1RECEPTORS CB1 RECEPTORS IN THE Laura Wise, Andrew Thorpe HIPPOCAMPUS ARE NECESSARY 11.15 and Aron Lichtman FOR THE MEMORY DISRUPTING 28 EFFECTS OF CANNABINOIDS 11.30 – 12.30 Lunch 12.30 – 15.00 Poster Sessions 4 – 9 Session 6. Human Studies Chairs: Drs. Thomas Lundqvist and Rik Musty USE OF THE CANNABINOID NABILONE FOR THE PROMOTION OF SLEEP IN Sharon Chung, Naheed Hossain, CHRONIC, NON-MALIGNANT PAIN Tejas Shah, Nancy MacFarlane, 15.00 PATIENTS: A PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, 29 Adam Blackman and Colin Shapiro RANDOMIZED, CROSSOVER INSOMNIA PILOT STUDY CANNABINOIDS IN THE MANAGEMENT 15.15 Vincent Maida OF CANCER PAIN: A COHORT STUDY 30 USING PROPENSITY SCORING Mark Ware, Tongtong Wang, Stan Shapiro, SMOKED CANNABIS FOR Thierry Ducruet, Ann Robinson, CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN: 15.30 Ann Gamsa, Gary Bennett 31 RESULTS OF A PILOT STUDY and Jean-Paul