L-655708 (FG-8094) is a nootropic drug invented in 1996 by a team working for Merck Sharp and Dohme that was the first compound developed which acts as a subtype-selective inverse agonist at the α5 subtype of the benzodiazepine binding site on the GABAA receptor.
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