Abstract: This invention relates to: an indole derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof represented by formula (I): 1

Abstract: The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I) 1

Abstract: This invention is directed to compounds of the formula 1

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compounds that inhibit serine proteases.

Abstract: The invention relates to compound of formula (I): wherein: G1 represents an alkylene chain as defined in the description, A represents R2 and R3 represent hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy or hydroxy or together form oxo, R4 and R5 represent hydrogen, R1 is as defined in the description, and medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating or preventing melatoninergic disorders.

Abstract: Disclosed are cyclic and acyclic amidines, pharmaceutical compositions containing such amidines, and their use in treating or preventing progesterone receptor mediated diseases or conditions, such as osteopenia and osteoporosis.

Abstract: The present invention provides plant extracts, isolated alkaloids, synthetic alkaloids and compositions having antitussive activity. In some preferred embodiments, the plant extracts and the isolated alkaloids are from a plant of a genus in the family Stemonaceae. In other preferred embodiments, the plant extracts and the isolated alkaloids are from a plant of the genus Stemona, Croomia, or Stichoneuron. In especially preferred embodiments, the plant extracts and the isolated alkaloids are from the plant Stemona tuberosa. The present invention further provides methods for isolating such plant extracts and alkaloids. In addition, the present invention provides methods for reducing or suppressing coughing by administering plant extracts, alkaloids and compositions having antitussive activity.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are disclosed that provide acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for the prevention and treatment of diseases and disorders of the central nervous system, including dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, to the central nervous system via intranasal delivery. The methods and compositions of the present invention provide therapeutic concentrations of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor in the cerebrospinal fluid of a mammal without the attendant disadvantages, risks and side effects of oral or injection delivery.

Abstract: Anlogs of ningalin B lacking inherent cytotoxic activity may be employed to reverse multi-drug resistant (MDR) phenotype and to resensitize transformed cells, including a human colon cancer cell line (HCT116/VM46), with respect to a variety of cytotoxic agents, e.g., vinblastine and doxorubicin. In many instances, resensitization is achieved at lower doses than the prototypical agent verapamil. Total synthesis of ningalin B and its analogs was achieved using a concise, efficient approach based on a heterocyclic azadiene Diels-Alder strategy (1,2,4,5-tetrazine → 1,2-diazine → pyrrole) ideally suited for construction of the densely functionalized pyrrole core found in the natural product is detailed.

Abstract: The invention relates to benzimidazole derivatives of general formula 1

Abstract: The present invention concerns a new general process for asymetric hemisynthesis of harringtonines and their analogs, that are alcaloids used in chimiotherapy. This process comprises direct esterification of a natural cephalotaxine with an acylating compound constituted of a side chain precursor which backbone and fonctionalization are entirely preformed.

Abstract: The present invention is a chemical compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate and ester thereof, wherein R1 to R4 and n are as defined in the specification. A compound of formula 1 is useful as a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prevention of disorders of the central nervous system, cardiovascular disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, obesity and sleep apnoea.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutical acid addition salt thereof, which are useful for activating 5-HT1F receptors and inhibiting neuronal protein extravasation in a mammal.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I) wherein: W represents O or NH, Q represents an unbranched or branched, saturated or unsaturated or aromatic, cyclic or acyclic or heterocyclic hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to 30 carbon atoms including or not heteroatom(s), R1 is H, OH, or OMe, O-(C1-C30)-alkyl, O-aryl-(C1-C30)-alkyl, O-(C2-C30)-alkenyl, O-(C3-C30)-cycloalkyl or null, and R2 is H or OH, or R1 and R2 form together —O—, R3=R4=OMe or R3 and R4 form together —OCH2O—, R is H, C1-C30 alkyl or O-protecting group and R6 represents an unbranched or branched, saturated or unsaturated or aromatic, cyclic or acyclic or heterocyclic hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to 30 carbon atoms including or not heteroatom(s), or R and R6 form together —CMe2—, n is 0 to 8, R5 is H, OH, OMe, O-(C1-C30)-alkyl, O-aryl-(C1-C30)-alkyl, O-(C2-C30)-alkenyl, O-(C3-C30)-cycloalkyl or O-aryl, the dotted line is null or forms a double bond dep

Abstract: Described herein are compounds selective for a 5-HT1D receptor, which have the general formula:

Abstract: The present invention is a chemical compound of formula (I) 1

Abstract: It is provided a method for preparing the pyrroloazepine derivatives, especially in optically active form useful as drugs, by low-priced and simple method and in industrial applicable scale, represented by the following formula (I): 1

Abstract: The present invention provides for methods for the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome or chronic fatigue syndrome by the administration of heterocyclic amine-type compounds, substituted phenylazacycloalkane-type compounds, or cabergoline-type compounds, or a salt of any said compound.

Abstract: A new method of therapy using the subcutaneous mode of administration of formulations based upon harringtonines including their salts and tautomeric forms having the formula 1

Abstract: A method of treating Alzheimer's disease is disclosed, not just with palliatives, but in a manner that prevents the progressive degeneration caused by Alzheimer's disease. Certain types of “safener” drugs, which can reduce the neurotoxic damage caused by a potent NMDA antagonist drug such as dizocilpine maleate (also known as MK-801) can also retard the type of corticolimbic damage which, in the brain of a patient who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, results from over-excitation of corticolimbic neurons. This over-excitation is caused or aggravated by NMDA receptor dysfunction in neuronal circuits which normally limit and control excitatory neurotransmitter release within those corticolimbic regions. Safener drugs include various known drugs that can suppress activity at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, sigma receptors, kainic acid receptors, or AMPA receptors. They also include various drugs which can stimulate activity at alpha-2 adrenergic or 5HT-2A serotonin receptors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aryl olefinic azacyclic compounds and aryl acetylenic azacyclic compounds, including pyridyl olefinic cycloalkylamines and pyridyl acetylenic cycloalkylamines. The present invention also relates to prodrug derivatives of the compounds of the present invention.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating a subject with arthritis or an arthritic disease or preventing arthritis or arthritic disease in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that attenuates annexin function. Also provided are various methods of screening for agents and genes that increase collagen synthesis, decrease collagen degradation, or reduce or delay apoptosis, and methods of using the identified agents or nucleic acids for attaining or maintaining cartilage homeostasis, promoting cartilage repair, increasing collagen synthesis, decreasing collagen degradation, or reducing or delaying apoptosis. The invention also provides methods of decreasing mineralization of vesicles derived from chondrocytes and of promoting endochondral bone growth using agents that attenuates annexin function.

Abstract: Disclosed are thiazolobenzoheterocycles of the general formula Including their isomers, racemates, enantioners and salts thereof, as well as processes for preparing these compounds and medicaments containing them.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of MT2 selective melatonergics as anticonvulsant agents and as analgesic agents. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of 6H-isoindolo[2,1-a]indoles or 5,6-dihydroindolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines as described herein which have melatonin agonist activity and which are selective for the MT2 receptor as anticonvulsant agents or analgesic agents. The invention further relates to the use of 5,6-dihydroindolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines and 6,7-dihydro-5H-benzo[c]azepino[2,1-a]indoles as described herein which have melatonin antagonist activity and which are selective for the MT2 receptor as pharmacological tools for delineation of physiological responses governed by MT2 receptor activation either by melatonin or selective agonists disclosed herein and for treatment of disorders associated with overproduction of melatonin such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and shift work syndrome.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel imidazolidinone derivatives thereof, their synthesis, and their use as &agr;v integrin receptor antagonists. More particularly, the compounds of the present invention are antagonists of the integrin receptors &agr;v&bgr;3 and/or &agr;v&bgr;5 and are useful for inhibiting bone resorption, treating and preventing osteoporosis, and inhibiting vascular restenosis, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, inflammation, inflammatory arthritis, viral disease, cancer, and metastatic tumor growth.

Abstract: A method of treatment of a host with a cellular proliferative disease, comprising contacting the host with a cephalotaxine and an antiproliferative agent, each in an amount sufficient to modulate said cellular proliferative disease, is described. In some embodiments, the cephalotaxine comprises homoharringtonine (cephalotaxine, 4-methyl-2-hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-4-methyl pentyl) butanediocate ester). Antiproliferative agents of the invention comprise alkylating agents, intercalating agents, metal coordination complexes, pyrimidine nucleosides, purine nucleosides, inhibitors of nucleic acid associated enzymes and proteins, and agents affecting structural proteins and cytoplasmic enzymes.

Abstract: 9-(4-Methylthiazol-2-yl)- 11-(pyridin-4-yl)-6,7-dihydro-5H-2, 7a-diazadibenzo[a,c]cyclohepten-8-one, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are selective ligands for GABAA receptors, in particular having high affinity for the a2 and/or a3 subunit thereof, and are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of disorders of the central nervous system, including anxiety and convulsions.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses methods of treating patients for tobacco addiction and nicotine addiction, for palliating the effects of nicotine withdrawal, for providing or facilitating the effects of smoking cessation therapies and as long-term smoking cessation maintenance therapy. The invention also includes related pharmaceutical compositions comprising nicotine receptor antagonists and either an anti-depressant or an anti-anxiety drug. Specific combinations of drugs (mecamylamine HCl and bupropion HCl) as well as mecamylamine in combination with certain drug classes (e.g., anti-anxiety drugs and anti-depressants) comprise the pharmaceutical compositions disclosed. These compositions are also contemplated for use in the treatment of cocaine addiction and the treatment of alcohol dependence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for sequestering bile acids in a patient and to particular polymers for use in the method. The method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a spirobicyclic ammonium moiety-containing polymer composition to a mammal, such as a human, whereby bile acids are sequestered. The polymers of the invention comprise spirobicyclic ammonium moieties and optionally, further comprise a hydrophobic substituent, a quaternary ammonium-containing substituent or a combination thereof.

Abstract: Described herein are compounds with affinity for the 5-HT6 receptor, which have the general formula: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, halo, OH, C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkoxy, C2-6alkenyl, C2-6alkynyl, C3-7cycloalkyl and others; R5 is selected from the group consisting of SO2Ar, C(O)Ar, Ar and CH2Ar; R6 and R7 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, C1-6alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl and optionally substituted benzyl; ————— represents a single or double bond; n is selected from an integer of from 1-3; X is selected from the group consisting of CR17 and N; Z is selected from the group consisting of C, CH and N, provided that when ————— is a double bond, Z is C and when ————— is a single bond, Z is selected from CH and N; Ar is an optionally substituted aromatic group selected from the group consisting of phenyl, pyridyl, thienyl,

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition incorporates a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least two components, one of those components being a nicotinic compound capable of interacting with nicotinic cholinergic receptors (e.g., a nicotinic agonist, such as E-metanicotine) and one of those components being an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (e.g., tacrine). The pharmaceutical composition is useful for treating CNS disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.