Abstract: Compounds of the formula (II) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as set forth herein, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use in treating urinary incontinence.

Abstract: A method of synthesizing aromatic ketone compositions of formula I comprising the step of introducing a double bond into the 5 membered ring of the 4,5-dihydro-1,3-azoles moiety of formula II is disclosed. A method of synthesizing aromatic ketone compositions of formula I comprising the step of ring synthesis of the tetrahydro-1,3-azoles of formula XI is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted alcohol compounds of the formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R3, RN, R20 and RC are defined herein. The compounds are useful in the treatment or prevention of Alzheimer's disease and more specifically to compounds that are capable of inhibiting beta-secretase, an enzyme that cleaves amyloid precursor protein to produce amyloid beta peptide (A-beta), a major component of the amyloid plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the therapeutic treatment of a disorder relating to or affected by the 5-HT6 receptor.

Abstract: The present invention provides NPY-5 receptor antagonists having a Formula (IA) Methods and pharmaceutical compositions useful for treating diseases, conditions and/or disorders modulated by the above NPY-5 receptor antagonists are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel 5-substituted tetralones of Formulas I, II, III, and IV and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, and prodrugs thereof, which are useful for treating and preventing uncontrolled or abnormal proliferation of tissues, such as cancer, atherosclerosis, restenosis, and psoriasis.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of blood clotting, to novel compounds of formula (I), to a method for their production and to the use of these compounds as active ingredients in medicaments for preventing and/or treating diseases. The compounds are factor Xa inhibitors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to peptidomimetic compounds which inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis C virus NS3-NS4A protease. As such, they act by interfering with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The compounds of this invention have a bridged bicyclic moiety at the P2 position. The invention further relates to compositions comprising these compounds either for ex vivo use or for administration to a patient suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a patient by administering a composition comprising a compound of this invention.

Abstract: This invention encompasses anthranilamides with heteroarylsulfonyl side chain, process for their preparation, their use as medicament or diagnostic aid, and pharmaceutical preparations containing them. Compounds of formula I, in which R1 to R7 have the meanings stated in the claims, act on the Kv1.5 potassium channel and inhibit a potassium current which is referred to as the ultra-rapidly activating delayed rectifier in the atrium of the human heart. They are therefore suitable as novel antiarrhythmic ingredients, such as for the treatment and prophylaxis of atrial arrhythmias, e.g. atrial fibrillation (AF) or atrial flutter.

Abstract: The invention is based on the discovery that certain 3-oxoacetamideindolyl compounds have potent anticancer and anti-angiogenic activity. The 3-oxoacetamideindolyl compounds are of the following formula. In this formula, each R1 is independently isoxazolyl, thiazolyl, isothiazolyl, 1,3,4-thiadiazolyl, 1,3-benzothiazolyl, quinolyl, isoquinolyl, thionaphthenyl, or benzofuranyl, each being optionally substituted with 1-6 independent R5; or when taken together with R2 and the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 5-8 membered ring comprising C, N, S, or O atoms wherein any atom is optionally substituted with an independent R5. Each R2 is independently H, C1-C10 alkyl, or aryl, each being optionally substituted with 1-4 independent R5; or when taken together with R1 and the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 5-8 membered ring comprising C, N, S, or O atoms wherein any atom is optionally substituted with an independent R5.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, wherein Ra represents a group R5 which is hydrogen, alkyl or optionally substituted aryl and Rb represents a moiety of formula (a): wherein X represents a hydroxy or an alkoxy group wherein the alkyl group may be substitued or unsubstituted or X represents a group NRsRt wherein Rs and Rt each independently represent hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, optionally substituted aryl, optionally substituted arylalkyl, an optionally substituted heterocyclic group or an optionally substituted heterocyclylalkyl group, or Rs and Rt together with the nitrogen to which they are attached form a heterocyclic group; R1 represents an alkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; and R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent hydrogen, alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl; R6 and R7 each independently represent hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, alkoxy, optionally substituted aryloxy, optionally substituted benzyloxy, alkylami

Abstract: A new class of imidazolines as 4-position acids or esters with very potent anti-inflammatory as well as antimicrobial activity is described. The synthesis of these imidazolines includes a multicomponent reaction applicable to a combinatorial synthetic approach. The combination of these two key characteristics provides an effective therapeutic drug in the treatment of septic shock as well as many other inflammatory (arthritis and asthma) and infectious disorders. The use of this novel class of non-steroidal agents as anti-inflammatory agents (for the treatment of asthma etc.), antibacterial agents and antiseptic agents is described. The compounds are also useful in the treatment of tumors (such as cancers). The imidazolines are potent inhibitors of the transcription factor NF-?B as well as potent activity against the Gram (+) bacterium B. subtillus and B. cereus with MIC values in the range of 50 ?m/mL.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula I: These compounds may be in the form of pharmaceutical salts or compositions, racemic mixtures, or pure enantiomers thereof. The compounds of Formula I are useful in pharmaceuticals to treat diseases or conditions in which ?7 is known to be involved.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds which are alpha-1 receptor agonists, preferably alpha-1A/L receptor agonists, and which are represented by Formula I: wherein X is —S(O)n— or —C(O)—, A is C1-6alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, hydroxyalkyl, or —(CH2)p—NRaRb, and the other substituents are as defined in the specification; or individual isomers, racemic or non-racemic mixtures of isomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, methods for their use as therapeutic agents, and methods of preparation thereof.

Abstract: What is disclosed are growth hormone secretagogues, and their uses, of the formula wherein R1 is C6H5CH2OCH2—, C6H5 (CH2)3— or indol-3-ylmethyl; Y is pyrrolidin-1-yl, 4-C1-C6 alkylpiperidin-1-yl or NR2R2; R2 are each independently a C1 to C6 alkyl; R3 is 2-napthyl or phenyl para-substituted by W; W is H, F, CF3, C1-C6 alkoxy or phenyl; and R4 is H or CH3, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to indole derivatives and to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, compositions containing and the uses of, such derivatives. The indole derivatives according to the present invention are useful in numerous diseases, disorders and conditions, in particular inflammatory, allergic and respiratory diseases, disorders and conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I which are antagonists of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) activity. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical formulations, the use of a compound of the present invention in the manufacture of a medicament, a method of therapeutic treatment using such a compound and processes for producing the compounds.

Abstract: The invention encompasses novel compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates, clathrates, enantiomers, diastereomers, racemates, or mixtures of stereoisomers thereof, pharmaceutical compositions of these compounds, and methods of using these compounds and compositions in mammals for treatment or prevention of diseases associated with PDE4.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a compound represented by the following formula (II), comprising executing alkali hydrolysis of a compound represented by the following formula (I) with an alkali metal hydroxide in the presence of a barium compound to from the compound represented by formula (II), precipitating the barium compound in the form of a barium halide, and eliminating the barium halide: 1

Abstract: Process for the preparation of a compound of the general formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof, (I) characterised by reacting an N-(amino-tioxo-methyl)-1H-indole-2-carboxamide of the general formula (II), with an &agr;-halogen-ketone of the general formula (III), wherein X stands for halogen.

Abstract: The invention relates to new indole derivatives, processes for their preparation, and their use in medicaments.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the efficient assembly of Boc-protected 3-aminohydantoins/thiohydantoins and 3-aminodihydrouracils/dihydrothiouracils via a one-pot solution phase or solid phase synthesis from readily available starting materials.

Abstract: Imido and amido substituted acyihydroxamidic acids which reduce the levels of TNF&agr; and inhibit phosphodiesterase in a mammal. A typical embodiment is (3-(1,3-dioxoisoindolin -2-yl)-3-(3-ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)propandylamino)propanoate.

Abstract: The present invention is a compound and pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of formula (I): wherein R1 is a 4-(lower) alkyl-imidazol-1-yl or a 4,5-di(lower) alkyl-imidazol-1-yl group, R2 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, and R3 is a fluorenyl group. The compound of formula (I) includes pharmaceutically acceptable salts: The compound of formula (I) and salts thereof have 5-HT antagonism activity.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted 4- or/and 7-hydroxyindoles, to processes for preparing them, to pharmaceutical preparations which comprise these compounds and to the pharmaceutical use of these compounds, which are inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 4, as active compounds for treating diseases which can be influenced by using the compounds according to the invention to inhibit phosphodiesterase 4 activity in immunocompetent cells (e.g. macrophages and lymphocytes).

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I which are antagonists of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) activity. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical formulations, the use of a compound of the present invention in the manufacture of a medicament, a method of therapeutic treatment using such a compound and processes for producing the compounds.

Abstract: A photo-induced phase transition organic material is composed of a diheteroarylethene-based compound within which the photo-chromic reaction occurs in the crystalline state. The diheteroarylethene-based compound of the present invention reversibly changes in color with light irradiation and also changes in phase from the open-ring form in the crystalline state to the closed-ring form in the crystalline state, or from the closed-ring form in the crystalline state to the open-ring form in the crystalline state via the liquid state, and can be applicable to optical recording media, display panels, sensors, optical switch devices and the like, by taking advantages of its variations in color with light irradiation and also its changes in physical property, such as the refractive index and the permeability, with its changes in phase.

Abstract: The present invention provides NPY-5 receptor antagonists having a Formula (IA) 1

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

Abstract: The purpose of the invention concerns a family of pseudodipeptides which are coupling products between tryptamine, an indole-primary amine, and a selection of alpha-amino acids, the said pseudodipeptides having the following general formula (I) 1

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula I 1

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof wherein R, Ar, A, n, R1 and R2 are defined herein. These compounds are highly selective agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAA brain receptors or prodrugs of agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAA brain receptors and are therefore useful in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety, depression, Down Syndrome, sleep and seizure disorders, overdose with benzodiazepine drugs and for enhancement of memory. Pharmaceutical compositions, including packaged pharmaceutical compositions, are also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of Formula I having the structure 1

Abstract: The present invention relates to certain 4-heteroaryl-3-heteroarylidenyl-2-indolinones compounds and their physiologically acceptable salts which modulate the activity of protein kinases (“PKs”), in particular CDK2. The compounds of the present invention are therefore useful in treating disorders related to abnormal PK activity. Pharmaceutical composition containing these compounds and methods of preparing these compounds are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel indole derivatives, to their preparation and to their use, as inhibitors of the enzyme poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase or PARP (EC 2.4.2.30), for producing drugs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel indole derivatives, their method of preparation and their pharmacological activity as antimycotic and/or antiparasitic compounds.

Abstract: The invention is directed to novel benzimidazolone peptidomimetic compounds which are useful as thrombin receptor antagonists for the treatment of diseases associated with thrombosis, restenosis, hypertension, heart failure, arrhythmia, inflammation, angina, stroke, atherosclerosis, ischemic conditions, Angiogenesis related disorders, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the substituted benzimidazolone peptidomimetics of the present invention and methods of treating conditions mediated by the thrombin receptor are also disclosed.

Abstract: Abstract Asymmetric derivatives of furamidines with one of the phenyl rings of furamidine replaced with a benzimidazole have been found by quantitative footprinting analyses to bind GC containing sites on DNA more strongly than to pure AT sequences. These compounds have been shown to bind in the minor groove at specific GC containing sequences of DNA in a highly cooperative manner as a stacked dimer. Compounds of the present invention find use in selectively binding mixed sequence DNA, and may also be used in methods of regulating gene expression, methods of treating opportunistic infections and cancer, as well as in methods of detecting certain sequences of DNA.

Abstract: Indolinones of general formula I 1

Abstract: Indolinones of general formula I 1

Abstract: Novel indolyl-2-phenyl bisamidines are described which are DNA methyltransferase inhibiting agents, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are used as antiproliferative agents for treating a disease, especially a neoplastic disease, characterized by abnormally rapid proliferation of tissue involved in said disease; said indolyl-2-phenyl bisamidines comprising a and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: R1 is hydrogen or (C1-C3)alkyl; R3, R4, R5, R8, R9, and R10 are hydrogen or (C1-C3)alkyl, or R3 and R4 may be taken together, or R8 and R9 may be taken together with the nitrogen atoms to which they are attached, to form an imidazolinyl group; R14 is —H; —NHC(═O)(CH2)mR20; —(CH2)mR20; —CH(CH3)R20; —(CH2)m(C6H3)—R17; —(CH2)m(C6H3)—R20; —(CH2)m(heterocyclyl)—R17; —(CH2)m(heterocyclyl)—R20; —CH2CH═CHR20; —(CH2)mC(═O)NH—CHR20R21; or —(CH2)mC(═O)NH—CH2&m

Abstract: The present invention relates to 3-pyrroloimidazole derivatives of the general formula (I) wherein the imidazole radical is an optionally substituted imidazole ring, X, Y, A and B are, each independently of the others, carbon or nitrogen atoms, the radicals Z denote, each independently of the others, a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a pseudohalogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aralkenyl, aralkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkynyl, cycloaralkyl, cycloaralkenyl, cycloaralkynyl, aryl or alkoxy radical or an optionally substituted ring, to which one or two further, optionally substituted rings may be fused, and/or at least two of the radicals Z may be part of an optionally substituted ring, to which one or two further, optionally substituted rings may be fused, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the above-mentioned compounds, optionally in combination with carriers and/or adjuvants and/or excipients customary per se.

Abstract: Imido and amido substituted acylhydroxamic acids which reduce the levels of TNF&agr; and inhibit phosphodiesterase in a mammal. A typical embodiment is (3-(1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl)-3-(3-ethoxy-4-methoxyphenyl)propanoylamino)propanoate.

Abstract: 2-(III-Indol-3-yl)-2-oxo-acetamide derivatives of formula (I) having antitumor activity in particular against solid tumors, specifically colon and lung tumors.

Abstract: The present invention discloses compounds of formula (1) any of its enantiomers or any mixture thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein is a single or a double bond; R is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl or aralkyl; and R1 is (a), wherein R2 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, amino; or aryl which may be substituted one or more times with substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, thioalkoxy, thiocycloalkoxy, methylenedioxy, aryloxy, halogen, CF3, OCF3, CN, amino, aminoacyl, nitro, aryl and a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl group; a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl group which may be substituted one or more times with substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, thioalkoxy, thiocycloalkoxy, methylenedioxy, aryloxy, halogen, CF3, OCF3, CN, amino, nitr

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), wherein X, Y, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined in the description, and the preparation therof. The compounds of the formula bind to somatostatin receptiors and are useful as pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: Polyarylcarboxamide compounds of formula (I) 1

Abstract: 1

Abstract: The present invention is directed to imidazolyl derivatives of formula (II), wherein the variables are defined in the specification, which are useful as prenyl transeferase inhibitors.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the therapeutic treatment of a disorder relating to or affected by the 5-HT6 receptor.