Oxazolone has been used as a haptenizing agent which can induce an inflammatory reaction in adult zebrafish intestinal tissues and this can be used as a model for gene expression studies of the two forms of inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

2,3-Dihydro-3,5-dihydroxy-6-methyl-4(H)-pyran-4-one

GABAA receptor agent 1 has strong anticonvulsant activity and is a high affinity ligand of GABAA receptor.