Benzene Ring Containing Patents (Class 514/637)
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Publication number: 20100029588Abstract: The present invention relates to oxime ether-, hydrazone- or azomethine-substituted phenylamidines of the general formula (I), to a process for their preparation, to the use of the amidines according to the invention for controlling unwanted microorganisms and also to a composition for this purpose, comprising the amidines according to the invention. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for controlling unwanted microorganisms by applying the compounds according to the invention to the microorganisms and/or their habitat.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2008Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Thomas Seitz, Klaus Kunz, Wahed Ahmed Moradi, Jörg Nico Greul, Darren James Mansfield, Urlich Heinemann, Amos Mattes, Oswald Ort, Jean-Pierre Vors, Peter Dahem, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Arnd Voerste
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Patent number: 7592374Abstract: A composition of matter is disclosed that comprises a compound of the formula: wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of unsubstituted and substituted biphenyl moieties, unsubstituted and substituted fluorenyl moieties, unsubstituted and substituted carbazolyl moieties, and unsubstituted and substituted pyridyl moieties; and R2 is hydrogen or alkyl. The compositions are useful as insecticides, acaricides, and fungicides.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Crompton CorporationInventors: Mark A. Dekeyser, Sheldon B. Park, Paul T. McDonald
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Publication number: 20090197918Abstract: The present invention relates to benzyloxy- and phenethyl-substituted phenyl-amidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Klaus Kunz, Jörg Greul, Oliver Guth, Benoît Hartmann, Kerstin Ilg, Wahed Moradi, Thomas Seitz, Peter Dahmen, Arnd Voerste, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Mark Drewes, Ralf Dunkel, Ronald Ebbert, Olga Malsam, Eva Maria Franken
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Publication number: 20090186929Abstract: A method for inducing apoptosis or cell death in leukemia cells includes inhibiting the production of nitric oxide (NO) by using a nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor. The NOS inhibitor includes a NOS1-specific inhibitor, such as N-[4-(2-{[(3-chlorophenyl)methyl]amino}ethyl)phenyl]-2-thiophenecarboximide dihydrochloride, [N5-(1-imino-3-butenyl)-L-ornithine], 7-nitroindazole, 1-(2-trifluoromethylphenyl)imidazole, 3-bromo-7-nitroindazole, and S-ethyl-N-[4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)isothiourea HCl.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRSInventors: Joe Brice Weinberg, Marc Christopher Levesque, Dipak Kumar Ghosh
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Publication number: 20090143431Abstract: The present invention relates to 2,5-di-substituted-4-naphthyloxy-substituted-phenyl-amidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Klaus Kunz, Jorg Greul, Oliver Guth, Benoit Hartmann, Kerstin Ilg, Wahed Moradi, Thomas Seitz, Peter Dahmen, Arnd Voerste, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Ralf Dunkel, Ronald Ebbert, Eva-Maria Franken
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Publication number: 20090042994Abstract: The present invention relates to 2,5-di-substituted-4-phenyloxy-substituted-phenyl-amidine derivatives of formula (I) in which the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Peter Luemmen, Klaus Kunz, Jorg Greul, Oliver Guth, Benoit Hartmann, Kerstin Ilg, Wahed Ahmed Moradi, Thomas Seitz, Darren Mansfield, Jean-Pierre Vors, Peter Dahmen, Arnd Voerste, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Marie-Claire Grosjean-Cournoyer, Mark Drewes, Ralf Dunkel, Ronald Ebbert
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Patent number: 7488757Abstract: An alcohol based hand surgical scrub, which includes cationic anti-microbial agent preservatives, cationic polymer film-forming agents and a skin emollient, and provides a long term residual, anti-microbial “invisible glove” on the skin. The composition provides an immediate reduction in bacterial microbes. The polymer system creates an invisible film on the skin following solvent evaporation. This invisible film provides a lasting anti-microbial barrier on the skin which acts to prevent microbial growth.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Minh Quang Hoang, Donald Edward Hunt
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Publication number: 20090018176Abstract: The present invention relates to a fungicide composition comprising a N2-phenylamidine derivative and two other fungicide compounds, at least, as well as and the corresponding methods of protection by application of the said composition. This composition is intended for protecting crops against fungal diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Peter Dahmen, Thomas Seitz, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann
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Publication number: 20090004279Abstract: A method for improvement of tolerance for therapeutically effective agents delivered by inhalation comprising a pretreatment of a patient with a nebulized lidocaine or a lidocaine-like compound administered immediately or up to about thirty minutes before administration of the primary therapeutically effective agent. The pretreatment of the patient with the nebulized lidocaine or a lidocaine-like compound improves airway tolerance and deposition of the agent in the lungs and makes such deposition more safe, efficacious, controllable and predictable. The method of the invention is especially useful for enhancement of deposition of immunosuppressive agents in the lung(s) of transplant patients, improved tolerance of the drugs by reducing cough, and improving pulmonary drug deposition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Thomas Hofmann, Alan Bruce Montgomery, Kevin Stapleton, William R. Baker
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Publication number: 20080306138Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable, antiparasitic, non-aqueous pour-on parasiticidal composition which comprises an effective amount of amitraz, optionally a macrocyclic lactone, a stabilizer and a carrier system having no active hydroxyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: WyethInventors: Jacob Allen Zupan, Robert Bruce Albright, Douglas Rugg, Izabela Galeska, Chungjian Jerry Ong
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Publication number: 20080293722Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compound compositions. The compounds, compositions, and methods described herein can be used for the therapeutic modulation of ion channel function, and treatment of disease and disease symptoms, particularly those mediated by certain calcium channel subtype targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2005Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: WyethInventors: Robert Zelle, Christopher Todd Baker, Paul Will, Vincent P. Galullo
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Publication number: 20080293751Abstract: Compounds of the formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein m, p, q, Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. Also provided are methods for preparing, compositions comprising, and methods for using compounds of formula I.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Robert Greenhouse, Ralph New Harris, III, Saul Jaime-Figueroa, James M. Kress, David Bruce Repke, Russell Stephen Stabler
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Publication number: 20080280992Abstract: The present invention relates to bi-phenyl-amidine derivatives of formula (I) in which the substituents are as in the description, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide or insecticide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide or insecticide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi or damaging insects, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions:Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Klaus Kunz, Jorg Greul, Oliver Guth, Benoit Hartmann, Kerstin Ilg, Wahed Ahmed Moradi, Thomas Seitz, Peter Dahmen, Arnd Voerste, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Mark Drewes, Ralf Dunkel, Ronald Ebbert, Herbert Gayer, Stefan Hillebrand, Eva-Maria Franken, Olga Malsam, Ulrich Ebbinghaus-Kintscher
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Publication number: 20080207764Abstract: Compounds which can be represented by the general formula (I) indicated below: and in which: A is selected independently from the carboxamide group, the thiocarboxamide group, and the carbonyl group, R1 is selected from an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and the amino group, unsubstituted or substituted with the nitro group or the methyl group, R2 is selected independently from hydrogen, an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, the methoxy, ethoxy, propoxy group, a mono-, bi- or tricyclic cycloalkane residue having from 5 to 12 carbon atoms, the adamantyl group, an aryl, naphthyl or heterocyclic group, unsubstituted or substituted with methyl, methoxy, hydroxy, amino or halogen groups, R3 and R4 are selected independently from hydrogen and an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, R5 represents one or two substituents independently selected from hydrogen and the methyl, methoxyl and hydroxyl groups, n is a whole number from 0 to 6, and the amidine group is in the para or meta pType: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: ROTTA RESEARCH LABORATORIUM S.p.A.Inventors: Francesco Makovec, Simona Zanzola, Roberto Artusi, Lucio Claudio Rovati
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Publication number: 20080167382Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preferentially reducing the proliferation of cystic epithelial cells in the kidney or bile duct in a mammal in need thereof by administering a 20-HETE synthesizing enzyme inhibitor or a 20-HETE antagonist to the mammal in an amount sufficient to preferentially reduce the proliferation of cystic epithelial cells over normal epithelial cells such as tubule epithelial cells in the kidney or bile duct. The present invention also provides a method for preventing or treating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), ARPKD associated congenital hepatic fibrosis, ARPKD associated Caroli's disease, or cholangiocarcinoma in a mammal in need thereof by administering a 20-HETE synthesizing enzyme inhibitor or a 20-HETE antagonist to the mammal in an amount sufficient to prevent or treat the disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: William E. Sweeney, Ellis D. Avner, Richard J. Roman
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Publication number: 20080076831Abstract: A composition containing chlorhexidine enabling treatment of many types of discomforts, including hemorrhoid pain and itching without discomfort.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventor: Bernard Goetz
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Publication number: 20080051330Abstract: Novel compositions and methods of treating and preventing a viral infection are provided. A method of blocking a viral infection facilitated by a serine proteolytic (SP) activity is disclosed, which involves administering to a subject suffering or about to suffer from a viral infection a therapeutically effective amount of a substance having serine protease inhibitory activity or serpin activity. Among the substances found to be useful are ?1-antitrypsin (AAT), peptide derivatives from the carboxy terminal end of AAT and synthetic drugs mimicking the action of such substances. The invention is particularly well suited for checking a viral infection mediated by members of herpesviridae family.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2006Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventor: Leland Shapiro
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Patent number: 7262223Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of amidine compounds in the treatment of amyloid-related diseases. In particular, the invention relates to a method of treating or preventing an amyloid-related disease in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutic amount of an amidine compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Neurochem (International) LimitedInventors: Xianqi Kong, Xinfu Wu, David Migneault
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Patent number: 7220781Abstract: Compounds of formula I in which R1, R2, R3, each X, L, Y, Cy, Lp, D and n have the meanings as set out in the specification, and corresponding compounds in which the unsubstituted or substituted amidine group is replaced with an unsubstituted or substituted aminomethyl group, are useful as serine protease inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Tularik LimitedInventors: John Walter Liebeschuetz, William Alexander Wylie, Bohdan Waszkowycz, Christopher William Murray, Andrew David Rimmer, Pauline Mary Welsh, Stuart Donald Jones, Jonathan Michael Ernest Roscoe, Stephen Clinton Young, Phillip John Morgan
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Patent number: 7157078Abstract: This invention relates to devices, kits, and methods for eliminating termite colonies. The kits, devices, and methods employ a termiticidal bait matrix containing a) a termiticide selected such that the termiticide causes death to about 50 to about 100% of termites within about 24 to about 84 days after the termites begin to ingest the termiticide or the bait matrix comprising the termiticide, b) a cellulose containing material, and c) water. The termiticidal bait matrix can be used in a bait station installed in the ground. The kits are suitable to be used by consumers in their homes.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: The University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Philip Frederick Brode, III, Garry Steven Garren, Leo Timothy Laughlin, Randall Stryker Matthews, Dale Edwin Barker, Daniel James Kinne, Gary Eugene McKibben, Christopher Miles Miller, Timothy Robert Probst
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Patent number: 7122535Abstract: A method of treating pain in a warm-blooded animal comprising administering to anwarm-blooded animal in need thereof an amount of a compound of the formula wherein the substituents are defined in accordance with the disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S.)Inventors: Pierre Etienne Chabrier de Lassauniere, Serge Auvin, Dennis Bigg, Michel Auquet, Jeremiah Harnett
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Patent number: 7078400Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhibitor for production of 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, comprising, as an effective ingredient, specific hydroxyformamidine derivatives or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof. The inhibitors according to the present invention are useful as therapeutic agents for kidney diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, or circulatory diseases. In addition, the present invention also provides novel hydroxyformamidine derivatives or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2003Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Sato, Noriyuki Miyata, Takaaki Ishii, Yuko Kobayashi, Hideaki Amada
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Patent number: 6936719Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are useful as inhibitors of trypsin like serine protease enzymes such as thrombin, factor VIIa, factor Xa, TF/FVIIa, and trypsin. These compounds could be useful to treat and/or prevent clotting disorders, and as anticoagulating agents.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Yarlagadda S. Babu, R. Scott Rowland, Pooran Chand, Pravin L. Kotian, Yahya El-Kattan, Shri Niwas
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Patent number: 6936597Abstract: Polymeric prodrugs of the formula: wherein B is selected from the group consisting of OH, leaving groups, residues of amine-containing moieties and a residues of hydroxyl-containing moieties; Y1 is selected from the group consisting of O, S, and NR5; M is NR3, O or S; Ar is a moiety which when included in Formula I forms a multi-substituted aromatic or heteroaromatic hydrocarbon or a multi-substituted heterocyclic group; (m) is zero or a positive integer; R1-3 and R5 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-6 alkyls, C3-12 branched alkyls, C3-8 cycloalkyls, C1-6 substituted alkyls, C3-8 substituted cycloalkyls, aryls, substituted aryls, aralkyls, C1-6 heteroalkyls, substituted C1-6 heteroalkyls, C1-6 alkoxy, phenoxy and C1-6 heteroalkoxy; and R4 is a polymeric residue; as well as methods of making and using the same are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Enzon, Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Greenwald, Yun H. Choe
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Patent number: 6921752Abstract: The invention relates to the use of LTB4 antagonists for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prevention of respiratory diseases in companion and domesticated animals.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Franz Birke, Kandace Matzek
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Patent number: 6906076Abstract: The present invention concerns alkyl aryl carbonyl compounds that possess anti-infective activity. The compounds of the invention can be used to target specific nuclear localization signal, thereby blocking importation of specific proteins or molecular complex into the nucleus of a cell. The invention encompasses methods of use of such compounds for treatment or prevention of infectious diseases, such as parasitic and viral diseases, including, for example, malaria and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The use of the compounds to detect certain specific protein structures which are present in nuclear localization sequences is also taught.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Cytokine Pharmasciences, Inc.Inventors: Michael I. Bukrinsky, Anthony Cerami, Peter Ulrich, Bradley Berger
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Patent number: 6864254Abstract: An inhibitor for 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid production which comprises as the active ingredient a specific hydroxyformamidine derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. It is useful especially as a remedy for kidney diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, or circulatory diseases. The novel hydroxyformamidine derivative or pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2000Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Sato, Noriyuki Miyata, Takaaki Ishii, Yuko Kobayashi, Hideaki Amada
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Patent number: 6852761Abstract: The invention relates to polycyclic aryl and heteroaryl substituted benzene compounds useful as inhibitors of serine proteases of the coagulation cascade and compounds, compositions and methods for anticoagulant therapy for the treatment and prevention of a variety of thrombotic conditions including coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2001Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Pharmacia CorporationInventors: Michael S. South, John J. Parlow
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Patent number: 6825231Abstract: The application discloses substituted norbornylamino derivatives, processes for their preparation, their use as medicaments or diagnostics and a medicament comprising them Substituted norbornylamino derivatives having exo-configured nitrogen and an endo-fused five-membered ring of the formula I, or having exo-configured nitrogen and an exo-fused five-membered ring of the formula I a in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, A, B, S1, and S2 are as defined in the claims, are highly suitable for use as antihypertensive agents, for reducing or preventing ischemically induced damage, for use as medicaments for surgical interventions for the treatment of ischemias of the nervous system, of stroke and cerebral edema, of shock, of impaired respiratory drive, for the treatment of snoring, as laxatives, as agents against ectoparasites, for the prevention of the formation of biliary calculus, as antiatherosclerotics, as agents against late diabetic complications, carcinomatous disorders, fibrotic disorders, endotType: GrantFiled: December 12, 2000Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbHInventors: Uwe Heinelt, Hans-Jochen Lang, Heinz-Werner Kleemann, Jan-Robert Schwark, Klaus Wirth, Hans-Willi Jansen
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Patent number: 6809088Abstract: The invention relates to new derivatives of 2-(iminomethyl)amino-phenyl which are NO synthase inhibitors and can trap reactive oxygen species. These compounds can notably be used for the treatment of stroke, of neurodegenerative diseases and of ischemic or hemorragic cardiac or cerebral infarctions.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Societe de Conseils de Recherches et d'Applications Scientifiques (S.C.R.A.S.)Inventors: Pierre Etienne Chabrier de Lassauniere, Serge Auvin, Dennis Bigg, Michel Auguet, Jeremiah Harnett
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Patent number: 6767548Abstract: This invention relates to a biocidal composition resistant to the formation of a gel and to the method for stabilizing a concentrate containing, in addition to the biocide, a carbodiimide, a lipophilic/hydrophilic emulsifier mixture having a HLB of 6 to 20 and optionally an oil and/or an alkoxylated ester of a polyhydroxylated compound, by adding to the concentrate an effective anti-gelling amount of an anti-gelling agent selected from the group of an inorganic oxide, a epoxidized naturally occurring or synthetic vegetable oil and an epoxylated ester of a saturated or unsaturated C6 to C18 aliphatic acid optionally containing hydroxy substitution and mixtures of the foregoing anti-gelling agents.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventors: Kolazi S. Narayanan, Domingo Jon, George B. Beestman
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Patent number: 6740682Abstract: The novel compound 3-amidinobenzoyl-D-phenylglycine-3-phenylanilide is useful as a serine protease inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Tularik LimitedInventor: John Walter Liebeschuetz
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Patent number: 6740653Abstract: This invention relates to the stabilization of o/w microemulsions containing an active aza biocide by addition of an alkaline, water soluble buffering agent in an amount sufficient to adjust the pH to between 6 and 14 and to the use of said o/w microemulsions to control infestations and/or infections when topically applied to livestock or domestic animals.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventors: Kolazi S. Narayanan, Domingo Jon
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Patent number: 6737077Abstract: This invention relates to chewable objects for animals which contain, as a dentally therapeutic ingredient, one or more cationic substances. The inventive therapeutic animal chews are of sufficient durability to allow for a chewing cycle long enough for the release of the aforementioned cationic substances into saliva. Furthermore, the inventive animal chews may contain an effective amount of a counter-ionic compound, such as an alkali metal salt, to allow for rapid solubilization of said cationic antimicrobial substance into the saliva of an animal chewing thereupon, especially when delivered or carried on a carrier having a negatively charged surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1999Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Oraceutical Innovative Properties LLCInventor: Robert E. Montgomery
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Publication number: 20040092480Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a biphenylamidine derivative, particles for nucleus and a binder. Specifically, a pharmaceutical composition obtained by coating the particles for nucleus with the biphenylamidine derivative and the binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Kentaro Fujinaga, Masahiko Dohi, Masahiko Narasaki, Wataru Akasofu, Yasuhide Uejima
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Publication number: 20040082663Abstract: Pentamidine and analogs thereof have activity as imidazoline receptor binding compounds. A method of binding the imidazoline receptor, comprises contacting a bis-benzene to said imidazoline receptor in an amount effective to bind to said receptor, wherein said bis-benzene contains at least one amidine group (e.g., one or two). The contacting step may be carried out in vivo or in vitro. Contacting may be carried out with individual active compounds or with libraries of active compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventors: Richard R. Tidwell, James E. Hall, Dorothy H. Wood
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Patent number: 6716421Abstract: This invention relates to devices, kits, and methods for eliminating termite colonies. The kits, devices, and methods employ a termiticidal bait matrix containing a) a termiticide selected such that the termiticide causes death to about 50 to about 100% of termites within about 24 to about 84 days after the termites begin to ingest the termiticide or the bait matrix comprising the termiticide, b) a cellulose containing material, and c) water. The termiticidal bait matrix can be used in a bait station installed in the ground. The kits are suitable to be used by consumers in their homes.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Philip Frederick Brode, III, Garry Steven Garrett, Leo Timothy Laughlin, Randall Stryker Matthews, Dale Edwin Barker, Daniel James Kinne, Gary Eugene McKibben, Christopher Miles Miller, Timothy Robert Probst
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Patent number: 6706745Abstract: The present invention relates to a biphenylamidine derivative of the general formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is a novel compound functioning as a clinically applicable FXa inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2000Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Takayuki Hara, Tomohisa Nakada, Yasunobu Takano, Satoshi Sugiura, Takaharu Tsutsumi, Yoshiharu Takazawa, Reiko Takarada
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Patent number: 6664295Abstract: The invention provides fungicidal compounds of formula I and salts thereof: wherein the various radicals and substituents are as defined in the description, fungicidal compositions containing them and method for combating fungi which comprises applying these.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Bayer CropScience SAInventors: Vincent Gerusz, Darren James Mansfield, Joseph Perez, Jean-Pierre Vors, Derek Baldwin, Thomas Lawley Hough, Robert Dale Mitchell
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Publication number: 20030229072Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: William H Bullock, Harold C E Kluender, William L Collibee, Robert Dally, Martha E Rodriguez, Ming Wang
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Patent number: 6641800Abstract: Pressurized aerosol composition for administration by inhalation comprising a liquefied hydrofluoroalkane, a powdered medicament dispersed therein, and a suspending agent comprising a polymer soluble in the liquefied hydrofluoroalkane which is selected from polymers including recurring amide containing structural units, copolymers of amide containing units and carboxylic acid ester units, polyvinylacetate and acrylic acid/methacrylic acid ester copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2000Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Fisons Ltd.Inventors: Suresh N Mistry, Mark Gibson
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Patent number: 6635668Abstract: Pentamidine and analogs thereof have activity as imidazoline receptor binding compounds. A method of binding the imidazoline receptor, comprises contacting a bis-benzene to said imidazoline receptor in an amount effective to bind to said receptor, wherein said bis-benzene contains at least one amidine group (e.g., one or two). The contacting step may be carried out in vivo or in vitro. Contacting may be carried out with individual active compounds or with libraries of active compounds.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1998Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillInventors: Richard R. Tidwell, James E. Hall, Dorothy H. Wood
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Publication number: 20030181518Abstract: A method of treating or preventing cystic fibrosis in a patient in need of such treatment, the method comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an LTB4 antagonist of formula (I) 1Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KGInventors: Ralf Anderskewitz, Christopher J. Montague Meade, Franz Birke, Hans Michael Jennewein, Birgit Jung
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Publication number: 20030162839Abstract: Topical application of a solution of the antimicrobial chlorhexidine to teeth, particularly including exposed root surfaces, prevents the destruction of exposed cementum and associated exposed enamel at the cementum-enamel junction on tooth root surfaces (root caries) and the inflammation of the gingival tissue. In a method of use, a topical solution containing 10% (w/v) chlorhexidine. 20% (w/v) Sumatra benzoin. and 70% (w/v) ethanol is applied to the appropriate area of the tooth surface. followed immediately by application of a sealant which is a solution containing 29% (w/v) medical-grade polyurethane in 49% (w/v) acetone and 22% (w/v) ethyl acetate. Application of the chlorhexidine and sealant to the tooth cementum and gingival margin of “at risk” older adult patients has significantly reduced the prevalence and incidence of root caries and gingival inflammation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: John Marston Symington, Alison Symington, Arnold Richard Ten Cate, Oliver Ross Perry
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Publication number: 20030152644Abstract: Antimicrobial compositions having synergistic combinations of octoxyglycerin and at least one other antimicrobial agent in formulations which are more effective than prior art compositions without causing increased irritation to the skin of the average user. In certain embodiments, skin irritation may be minimized by low concentrations of antimicrobials and/or the presence of soothing compounds such as zinc. Preferred embodiments include combinations of octoxyglycerin, a quaternary compound, and at least one other antimicrobial agent. Without being bound to any particular theory, it is hypothesized that the unexpected antimicrobial effectiveness of combinations of octoxyglycerin may result from an enhancement of the permeability of microbes to antimicrobials caused by octoxyglycerin.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2001Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Shanta Modak, Trupti A. Gaonkar, Lester Sampath
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Publication number: 20030119901Abstract: The invention relates to a new pharmaceutical formulation containing an LTB4 antagonist of formula I 1Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KGInventors: Robert Becker, Thomas Bock, Siglinde Moll, Rene Roscher, Ulrich Roth, Achim Sauer, Karl Weber
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Patent number: 6576669Abstract: Medicaments and pharmaceutical kits comprising an LTB4 antagonist of formula (I) a tautomer thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of treating or preventing cystic fibrosis, diseases caused by increased expression of mucin genes in the bronchial or gastrointestinal epithelium, or hyperplasia of goblet cells induced by toxins of products of pathogenic bacteria in a patient in need of such treatment, the method comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of an LTB4 antagonist of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2002Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KGInventors: Ralf Anderskewitz, Christopher J. Montague Meade, Franz Birke, Hans Michael Jennewein, Birgit Jung
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Publication number: 20030082219Abstract: Disclosed are skin care compositions that are suitable for application on absorbent articles such as panty liners and interlabial products for delivery of the skin care compositions onto an external or internal area of the skin. The skin care compositions comprise low concentrations of skin treatment agents that are effective in preventing and/or reducing skin disorders related to erythema, malodor, and skin bacterial infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Raphael Warren, John Michael Blevins, Thomas James Klofta, Ryo Minoguchi, Regina Leigh Pennington, James Anthony Staudigel, Paul Robert Tanner, Michael Lee Vatter
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Patent number: 6545055Abstract: Novel compounds, their salts and compositions related thereto having activity against mammalian factor Xa are disclosed. The compounds are useful in vitro or in vivo for preventing or treating coagulation disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Bing-Yan Zhu, Ting Su, Zhaozhong Jon Jia, Robert M. Scarborough, Yonghong Song
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Patent number: 6534546Abstract: Compounds represented by the general formula (1): (where R1 is SR6 or NR7R8, where R6 is typically an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, R7 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms or a nitro group, and R8 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms; R2 and R3 are each typically a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms; R4 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms or an amidino group of which the amine portion may be substituted by an alkyl or nitro group; R5 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms; Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 which may be the same or different are each typically a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkoxy group having 1-6 carbon atoms; n and m are each an integer of 0 or 1), or possible stereoisomers or optically active forms of the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1997Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Honda, Toshihiko Makino, Toshiaki Nagafuji, Yasushi Kitoh, Nobuaki Kimura