Acotiamide hydrochloride is a selective, orally active, reversible acetylcholine ester (AChE) inhibitor (IC50: 1.79 μM) that increases gastric contractility, accelerates delayed gastric emptying, and can be used to study functional dyspepsia and intestinal inflammation in gastric motility disorders.

Acotiamide is an orally active, selective and reversible acetylcholinesterase ( AChE ) inhibitor, with IC 50 of 1.79 μM. Acotiamide is a gastroprokinetic agent that enhances gastric contractility and accelerates delayed gastric emptying. Acotiamide has the potential for the research of functional dyspepsia involving gastric motility dysfunction and intestinal inflammatory [1] [2] [3].

Acotiamide Methyl Ether is a metabolite of Acotiamide -- an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor which has been shown to stimulate gastric motility and improve gastric motility dysfunction in rats. Acotiamide Hydrochloride has also been shown to improve meal-related symptoms of functional dyspepsia.

Acotiamide monohydrochloride trihydrate (Z-338 HCl) is the hydrochloride salt form of acotiamide, a prokinetic agent with gastrointestinal (GI) motility-enhancing activity. Although the exact mechanism by which acotiamide exerts its effect has yet to be fully elucidated, this agent appears to inhibit acetylcholinesterase (AchE), an enzyme responsible for the breakdown of acetylcholine (Ach). Increased Ach concentrations lead to an improvement of gastric emptying and GI motility and eventually to a reduction of dyspepsia symptoms.