Abstract: An arylamidine derivative represented by a general formula described below or a salt thereof has an excellent antifungal action and high safety, and it is useful as an antifungal agent with good pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic properties wherein X represents an unsubstituted or substituted lower alkylene or alkenylene group; G1 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or an imino group; G2 represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; Ra represents at least one group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, and unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl and alkoxy groups; R1 represents an unprotected or protected or unsubstituted or substituted amidino group; and R2 represents a substituted amino or substituted cyclic amino group, or the like.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I in which R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in claim 1, are ligands of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and/or serotonergic ligands and are suitable for the prophylaxis or treatment of psychoses, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety states, dementia, in particular Alzheimer's disease and Lewy bodies dementia, neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Tourette's syndrome, learning and memory restrictions, bulimia anorexia nervosa or other eating disorders, compulsvie behaviour, premenstrual syndrome, age-induced memory impairment, amelioration of withdrawal symptoms in nicotine dependence, strokes or brain damage by toxic compounds, and for the treatment of disorders which are characterised by an excess of circulating serotonin or by serotonergic hyperactivity

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds having pharmacological activity towards the sigma receptor, and more particularly to some pyrazole derivatives, to processes of preparation of such compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use therapy and prophylaxis, in particular for the treatment of psychosis or pain.

Abstract: Substituted carbocyclic sulphonamide derivatives of formula (I), in which n is 0 or 1 and the other variables are as defined in the claims, are selective 5-HT7 receptor antagonists and are thereby effective in the treatment of a variety of neurological conditions, including depression and sleep disorders.

Abstract: 8-Substituted-2,6-methano-3-benzazocines of general structure I in which A is —CH2—OH, —CH2NH2, —NHSO2CH3, and Y is O, S or NOH are useful as analgesics, anti-diarrheal agents, anticonvulsants, antitussives and anti-addiction medications. 8-Carboxamides, thiocarboxamides, hydroxyamidines and formamides are preferred.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein a, b, c, m, p, s, t, W, Ar1, X1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R6, and R7 are as defined specification. The compounds of formula I are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat pulmonary disorders.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein a, b, c, d, m, n, p, r, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and W are as defined in the specification. The compounds of formula I are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat pulmonary disorders.

Abstract: This invention discloses novel gamma secretase inhibitors of the formula: wherein: R1 is a substituted aryl or substituted heteroaryl group; R2 is an R1 group, alkyl, —XC(O)Y, alkylene-XC(O)Y, cycloalkylene-X—C(O)—Y, —CH—X—C(O)—NR3—Y or —CH—X—C(O)—Y, wherein X and Y are as defined herein; each R3 and each R3A are independently H, or alkyl; R11 is aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, arylalkyl, arylcycloalkyl, heteroarylalkyl, heteroarylcycloalkyl, arylheterocycloalkyl, or alkoxyalkyl. Also disclosed is a method of treating Alzheimer's Disease using one or more compounds of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates compounds of the formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 represent a variety of substituents, ring A is a phenyl or pyridyl ring; d is zero, 1 or 2; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and N-oxides thereof.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula where the variables have the values described in the specification are antagonists of RAR? retinoid receptors.

Abstract: The invention relates to the inhibition of histone deacetylase. The invention provides compounds and methods for inhibiting histone deacetylase enzymatic activity. The invention also provides compositions and methods for treating cell proliferative diseases and conditions.

Abstract: Biphenylcarboxamide compounds of formula (I) methods for preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds as well as the use of said compounds as a medicine for the treatment of hyperlipidemia, obesity and type II diabetes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to imidazole derivatives of the general formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are described hereinbelow. These compounds can be used in the treatment or prevention of mGluR5 receptor mediated disorders. These compounds are useful, interalia, in the treatment or prevention of acute and/or chronic neurological disorders such as psychosis, epilepsy, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive disorders and memory deficits, as well as chronic and acute pain.

Abstract: This invention relates to hindered carbamate derivatives that are muscarinic receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of preparing these compounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to potent selective agonists of the EP4 subtype of prostaglandin E2 receptors, their use or a formulation thereof in the treatment of glaucoma and other conditions, which are related to elevated intraocular pressure in the eye of a patient. This invention further relates to the use of the compounds of this invention for mediating the bone modeling and remodeling processes of the osteoblasts and osteoclasts.

Abstract: ?- and ?-amino acid hydroxyethylamino sulfonyl urea derivative compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: A method to resolve the stereoisomers of an optically active compound comprising an amine moiety. The method provides a mixture comprising two stereoisomers of a compound comprising a amine moiety. The method supplies l-fenchyloxyacetic acid, treats the mixture of stereoisomers with that l-fenchyloxyacetic acid, and collects one of those two stereoisomers having greater than a 99 percent enantiomeric excess.

Abstract: The invention relates to antibacterial 3,5-diaminopiperidine-substituted aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. This invention also relates to a method of using such compounds in the treatment of bacterial infections in mammals, especially humans.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel compounds of the formula wherein R1 is benzimidazolone derivative, M1 and M2 are optionally substituted carbon or nitrogen, R2 includes optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl, and the remaining variables are as defined in the specification, and the remaining variables are as defined in the specification; also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I and methods of treating various diseases or conditions, such as allergy, allergy-induced airway responses, and congestion (e.g., nasal congestion) using the compounds of formula I, as well as methods of treating said diseases or conditions using the compounds of formula I in combination with an H1 receptor antagonist.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula 1 [Region ?]?[Region ?]?[Region ?]?[Region ?] ??(I) which are useful as modulators of chemokine activity. The invention also provides pharmaceutical formulations and methods of treatment using these compounds.

Abstract: This invention discloses novel gamma secretase inhibitors of the formula: wherein: R1 is a substituted aryl or substituted heteroaryl group; R2 is an R1 group, alkyl, —X(CO)Y, or alkylene-X(CO)Y wherein X and Y are as defined herein; each R3 and each R3A are independently H, or alkyl; R11 is aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, arylalkyl, arylcycloalkyl, heteroarylalkyl, heteroarylcycloalkyl, arylheterocycloalkyl, or alkoxyalkyl. Also disclosed is a method of treating Alzheimer's Disease using one or more compounds of the invention.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from any one of phenyl, pyridinyl, thienyl, furanyl, imidazolyl, pyrrolyl and triazolyl; where each R1 phenyl ring and R1 heteroaromatic ring may optionally and independently be further substituted by 1, 2 or 3 substituents selected from straight and branched C1–C6 alkyl, NO2, CF3, C1–C6 alkoxy, chloro, fluoro, bromo, and iodo. The substitutions on thephenyl ring and on the heteroaromatic ring may take place in any position on said ring systems; are disclosed and claimed in the present application, as well as their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel compounds and their use in therapy, inparticular in the management of pain.

Abstract: 4-Tetrazolyl-4-phenylpiperidine Compounds, compositions comprising an effective amount of a 4-Tetrazolyl-4-phenylpiperidine Compound, methods for treating or preventing pain or diarrhea in an animal comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a 4-Tetrazolyl-4-phenylpiperidine Compound and methods for stimulating opioid-receptor function in a cell comprising contacting a cell capable of expressing an opioid receptor with an effective amount of a 4-Tetrazolyl-4-phenylpiperidine Compound are disclosed.

Abstract: Selected compounds are effective for treatment of pain and diseases, such as inflammation mediated diseases. The invention encompasses novel compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases and other maladies or conditions involving pain, inflammation, and the like. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel cathepsin S inhibitors, the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and N-oxides thereof, their uses as therapeutic agents and the methods of their making.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula I R1 is selected from any one of phenyl, pyridinyl, thienyl, furanyl, imidazolyl, pyrrolyl, triazolyl, thiazolyl, and pyridine N-oxide; where each R1 phenyl ring and R1 heteroaromatic ring may optionally and independently be further substituted by 1, 2 or 3 substituents selected from straight and branched C1–C6alkyl, NO2, CF3, C1–C6alkoxy, chloro, fluoro, bromo, and iodo. The substitutions on the phenyl ring and on the heteroaromatic ring may take place in any position on said ring systems; are disclosed and claimed in the present application, as well as salts and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel compounds and their use in therapy, in particular in the management of pain, anxiety or functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new derivatives of sulphonamides, with the general formula (I), as well as to their physiologically acceptable salts, the processes for their preparation, their application as medicaments in human and/or veterinary therapy and the pharmaceutical compositions that contain them

Abstract: Polyarylcarboxamide compounds of formula I) are useful as lipid lowering agents.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I useful as metalloproteinase inhibitors, especially as inhibitors of MMP 13.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treatment of a subject suffering from a disease, such as schizophrenia, for which the administration of an NK-3 antagonist is indicated which comprises administering to that subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I: wherein, generally, Q is R1 is benzyl, phenyl, thiophene or imidazolyl optionally substituted with C1-4alkyl or halogen, such as methyl, fluorine or bromine; R2 is hydrogen or C1-4alkyl such as methyl; R3 is phenyl; R4 is hydrogen; R5 is hydrogen or C1-6alkylcarbonyl such as methylcarbonyl; X is —SO2— or —C(O)N(R2)SO2— where R2 is preferably hydrogen; Y is a bond, CH2 or Z1 where Z1 is —N(Rf)— in which Rf is C1-6alkylcarbonyl such as ethylcarbonyl; and R6 is phenyl, pyrazolyl, pyridyl, pyrimidinyl or benzimidazolonyl optionally substituted with one or two groups chosen from C1-6alkyl and benzyl, such as methyl, ethyl and benzyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): which are useful for treating depression, anxiety, and alleviating the symptoms caused by withdrawal or partial withdrawal from the use of tobacco or of nicotine.

Abstract: The invention relates to heterocyclically substituted benzoylureas and also to their physiologically tolerated salts and physiologically functional derivatives. Compounds are described of the formula I where the radicals are defined as specified, and also their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and processes for their preparation. The compounds are suitable, for example, for treating type 2 diabetes.

Abstract: Substituted heterocyclinc compounds are disclosed. The compounds are useful for treating multidrug resistance. The compounds can be formulated in compositions with a carrier and, optionally, a therapeutic agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I-VII) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, in which A, L, R6, R7 and R8 are defined herein. The present invention also relates to methods of trating pain using these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions including these compounds.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I useful as metalloproteinase inhibitors, especially as inhibitors of MMP 13.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following general formula (I) wherein ring A is benzene, cyclohexane, pyridine, piperidine, a derivative thereof, imidazole, a derivative thereof, etc.; the ring B represents benzene, cyclohexane, pyrrole or a derivative thereof, furan, thiophene, etc.; R1, R2 and R3 represent each hydrogen, alkyl, halogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy, etc.; W represents hydrogen, alkyl or hydroxycarbonylalkyl; X represents halogen, cyano, nitro, etc.; X? represents hydrogen, halogen, etc.; and Y represents alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxycarbonylalkyl, aminoalkyl, etc.; salt thereof, and drugs comprising these compounds. Because of having an exellent effect of inhibiting activated lymphocyte proliferation, these compounds are usefull as preventives or remedies for various autoimmune diseases.

Abstract: Piperidine derivatives represented by formula (I) or nontoxic salts thereof (wherein symbols are defined in the description): Since the compound represented by formula (I) has a PDE4 inhibitory activity, it is useful for preventing and/or treating inflammatory diseases, diabetic diseases, allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, bone fracture, obesity, depression, Parkinson's disease, dementia, ischemia-reperfusion injury, leukemia and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new derivatives of sulphonamides, with the general formula (I), as well as to their physiologically acceptable salts, the processes for their preparation, their application as medicaments in human and/or veterinary therapy and the pharmaceutical compositions that contain them.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel compounds of the formula wherein R1 is optionally substituted benzimidazolyl or a derivative thereof; R2 is optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl; M1 and M2 are C(R3) or N; and the remaining variables are as defined in the specification; also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I and methods of treating various diseases or conditions, such as allergy, allergy-induced airway responses, and congestion (e.g., nasal congestion) using the compounds of formula I, as well as methods of treating said diseases or conditions using the compounds of formula I in combination with an H1 receptor antagonist.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds having antiviral activities and antiviral drugs containing the compounds as the active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of substituted aryl- and heteroarylpropargylamines of the formula (I) where a) R1 is heteroaryl or aryl, unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by identical or different radicals, b) A is a group CR4R5 or C?O, where R4 is hydrogen, halogen or alkyl; R5 is hydrogen, halogen or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical; c) R2 and R3 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form N-heteroaryl or N-heterocyclyl, unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by identical or different radicals, if appropriate also as N-oxide or salt, as pesticide against arthropods and helminths for protecting plants and animals.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by Structural Formula (I): R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted 2-imidazolyl group which is optionally fused to a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group. Z1 is ?O, ?S, ?NOR11. R is represented by a Structural Formula selected from (II)–(VII): The variables in Structural Formulas (II)–(VII) are described herein.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula I R1 is selected from any one of phenyl, pyridinyl, pyrroloyl, thienyl, furanyl, imidazolyl, triazolyl, thiazolyl and pyridine N-oxide; where each R1 phenyl ring and R1 heteroaromatic ring may optionally and independently be further substituted by 1, 2 or 3 substituents selected from straight and branched C1–C6 alkyl, NO2, CF3, C1–C6 alkoxy, chloro, fluoro, bromo, and iodo. The substitutions on the phenyl ring and on the heteroaromatic ring may take place in any position on said ring systems; are disclosed and claimed in the present application, as well as salts and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel compounds and their use in therapy, in particular in the management of pain, anxiety and functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) where R2, each X, L, Y, Cy, Lp, D and n are as defined in the specification, are serine protease inhibitors useful as antithrombotic agents.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula: wherein A, B, C, D, T, Y, and Z represent each methine or nitrogen; R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 represent each a substituent; n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 3; m represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 6; and p represents an integer of 1 to 3; and pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof. The compound has a serotonin antagonism and is clinically useful as medicament, in particular, for treating, ameliorating and preventing spastic paralysis or central muscle relaxants for ameliorating myotonia.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aminophenoxyacetamide derivative of the formula (I): wherein R1 to R4 are, independent from each other, a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group; E1 is —NR4—; and E2 is an oxygen atom or —NR10—; Q is the group —X—Y-Q?, wherein X and Y are connecting bonds or X is an alkylene or alkenylene group and Y is selected from a group comprising C?O, NHC(?), and C(?O)NH, and Q? is a hydrogen atom or a phenyl or pyridyl group which may be substituted; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present invention further relates to compositions comprising compounds of the formula (I) and methods of using said compounds for treating cerebral functional disorders and cerebral organic disorders.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I): R1 is selected from any one of phenyl, pyridinyl, thienyl, furanyl, imidazolyl, pyrrolyl, triazolyl, thiazolyl and pyridine N-oxide; where each R1 phenyl ring and R1 heteroaromatic ring may optionally and independently be further substituted by 1, 2 or 3 substituents selected from straight and branched C1–C6 alkyl, NO2, CF3, C1–C6 alkoxy, chloro, fluoro, bromo, and iodo. The substitutions on the phenyl ring and on the heteroaromatic ring may take place in any position on said ring systems; are disclosed and claimed in the present application, as well as salts and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel compounds and their use in therapy, in particular in the management of pain, anxiety and functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Abstract: A NF-?B inhibitor represented by the following formula (I) is provided: ?

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate or polymorph thereof, wherein R, R1, and Z are as defined herein, are useful in treating or preventing a condition for which an NK2 antagonist is efficacious.

Abstract: Compounds of this formula are useful for treating or preventing, obesity, breast cancer, osteoporosis, endometriosis, cardiovascular disease and prostatic disease.