Bretazenil, an imidazobenzodiazepinone, is the first partial benzodiazepine agonist to be evaluated in schizophrenia. Bretazenil has been used to determine non-specific binding due to its affinity to bind to a variety of γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor subtypes (α1-3;5). It has also been used as a GABAA receptor partial agonist in the subcutaneous Alzet minipumps to treat obese agouti related protein (AgRP) ablated and lean naive mice to study its effect on them.
