Abstract: A new family of compounds having anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, and brocho-dilating activity having the following linear and cyclic formulas: ##STR1## and compositions of these, which alone, and in combination with reverse transcriptase inhibitors thereby resulting in an additive or synergistic effect, are useful in inhibiting or suppressing viruses including those exhibiting retroviral replication, or in treating viruses including a retrovirus such as HIV in a human cell population and methods of using these compositions, compounds, and salts thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 13, 1996
Date of Patent:
January 6, 1998
Assignee:
Compagnie de Developpement Aguettant S.A.
Inventors:
Farid Hamedi-Sangsari, Fabienne Nugier, Thierry Vallet, Jacques Grange, Jorge Vila