FTY720 is a structural analogue of sphingosine that, after conversion to the biologically active FTY720-phosphate molecule, binds with high affinity to sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors to act as ...

Jan de Vries (Vienna) presented findings on the action of the S1P receptor agonist FTY720, which inhibits the egress of lymphocytes from lymph nodes. He reported that FTY720 'preferentially' traps ...

Scientific and clinical results indicate that the synthetic sphingosine FTY720 may be an important factor for the development of new therapeutic drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other ...