Patent number: 7517892
Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the heterocyclic compounds as ligands for various mammalian cellular receptors, including dopamine, serotonin, or norepinephrine transporters. The compounds of the present invention will find use in the treatment of numerous ailments, conditions and diseases which afflict mammals, including but not limited to addiction, anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, hypertension, migraine, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, emesis, psychosis, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, Lesche-Nyhane disease, Wilson's disease, and Tourette's syndrome. An additional aspect of the present invention relates to the synthesis of combinatorial libraries of the heterocyclic compounds, and the screening of those libraries for biological activity, e.g., in assays based on dopamine transporters.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 12, 2001
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2009
Assignee:
Sepracor Inc.
Inventors:
Brian M. Aquila, Thomas D. Bannister, Gregory D. Cuny, James R. Hauske, Joanne M. Holland, Paul E. Persons, Heike Radeke, Fengjiang Wang, Liming Shao
Patent number: 7511073
Abstract: One aspect of the present invention relates to amines. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the amines as inhibitors of a mammalian anandamide transporter. The compounds of the present invention will also find use in the treatment of numerous ailments, conditions and diseases which afflict mammals, including but not limited to asthma, neuropathic pain, persistent pain, inflammatory pain, hyperactivity, hypertension, brain ischemia, Parkinson's disease, spasticity, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, hemorrhagic shock, septic shock, cardiac shock, migrane, Horton's headache, multiple sclerosis, anorexia, AIDS wasting syndrome, organ rejection, autoimmune diseases, allergy, arthritis, Crohn's disease, malignant gliomas, neurodegenerative diseases, Huntington's chorea, glaucoma, nausea, anxiety, psychosis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, premature ejaculation, and stroke.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 23, 2006
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2009
Assignee:
Sepracor, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian M. Aquila, Seth C. Hopkins, Curtis A. Lockshin, Fengjiang Wang
Patent number: 7488747
Abstract: Methods for increasing D-Serine concentration and reducing concentration of the toxic products of D-Serine oxidation, for enhancing learning, memory and/or cognition, or for treating schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, ataxia or neuropathic pain, or preventing loss in neuronal function characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases involve administering to a subject in need of treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof: wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, halo, nitro, alkyl, acyl, alkylaryl, and XYR5; or R1 and R2, taken together, form a 5, 6, 7 or 8-membered substituted or unsubstituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic group; X and Y are independently selected from O, S, NH, and (CR6R7)n; R3 is hydrogen, alkyl or M+; M is aluminum, calcium, lithium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, zinc ion or a mixture thereof; Z is N or CR4; R4 is from selected from hydrogen, halo, nitro, alkyl, alkylaryl, and XYR5;
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 28, 2004
Date of Patent:
February 10, 2009
Assignee:
Sepracor Inc.
Inventors:
Q. Kevin Fang, Seth Hopkins, Michele Heffernan, Milan Chytil