Abstract: The invention provides compounds of Formula I: wherein Azabicyclo is 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 in which ?7 is known to be involved.

Abstract: This invention relates to new RAR selective retinoid agonists of formula I wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification to their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, individual isomers or to a racemic or non-racemic mixture; to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and to methods for their use as therapeutic agents.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 to R10, X, Y and n are indicated in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof. The compounds are useful for the treatment of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

Abstract: A compound of formula Id and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, wherein the substituent designations are as provided in the specification. Compounds of the invention are useful for treating reperfusion injury.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with DPP IV, such as diabetes, particularly non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and impaired glucose tolerance.

Abstract: Hydantoin compounds which are active as glucokinase activators to increase insulin secretion which makes them useful for treating type II diabetes.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula are described: wherein R1 is hydrogen or halogen; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; R3 is halogen, trifluoromethyl, lower alkoxy or lower alkyl; R4/R4′are each independently hydrogen or lower alkyl; R5 is lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, amino, hydroxy, hydroxy-lower alkyl, —(CH2)n-piperazinyl, optionally substituted by lower alkyl, —(CH2)n-morpholinyl, —(CH2)n+1-imidazolyl, —O—(CH2)n+1-morpholinyl, —O—(CH2)n+1-piperidinyl, lower alkyl-sulfanyl, lower alkyl-sulfonyl, benzylamino, —NH—(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, —(CH2)n—NH—(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, —(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, or —O—(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, wherein R4″ is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R6 is hydrogen; R2 and R6 or R1 and R6 may together be —CH═CH—CH═CH—, wherein R2 and R6 or R1 and R6, respectively, together with the two carbon rin

Abstract: Compounds of formula I are provided as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, wherein R1 to R3 and n have the significance given in the specification can be used to treat non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with DPP-IV, such as diabetes, particularly non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and impaired glucose tolerance.

Abstract: Compounds of general formula I as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, are potent inhibitors of neuropeptide Y and can be used in the form of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment or prevention of various disease states and related morbidities including obesity.

Abstract: Compounds of formula I are provided as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, wherein R1 to R5, n, m and A have the significance disclosed in the specification, and can be used for the treatment or prevention of arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, renal failure, eating disorders and obesity.

Abstract: A chimeric serine protease whose protease domain is composed of two domain halves (half-sides) with a &bgr;-folded sheet structure, wherein the first domain half corresponds to the first domain half of a first serine protease and the second domain half corresponds to the second domain half of a second serine protease, has improved properties and can be readily crystallized.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxazole compounds which act as PPAR&agr; and PPAR&ggr; agonists and are accordingly useful for the treatment of diseases modulated by PPAR&agr; and PPAR&ggr; such as diabetes.

Abstract: The invention relates to pyrimido[5,4-e][1,2,4]triazine-5,7-diamine compounds which are useful for inhibiting protein tyrosine phosphatases, particularly PTP1B.

Abstract: 2,3-Di-substituted N-heteroaromatic propionamides with said substitution at the 3-position being a substituted phenyl group and at the 2-position being a methyl cycloalkyl ring, said propionamides being glucokinase activators which increase insulin secretion in the treatment of type II diabetes.

Abstract: Peptides that selectively stimulate melanocortin-4 (MC-4) receptor activity are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention is related to a method of treating chronic hand eczema in a human patient in need of treatment, using oral administration of 9-cis retinoic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutically acceptable hydrolysable esters thereof, in an effective amount of from 0.05 to 1.5 milligrams per kilogram body weight per day.

Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I): wherein X1, X2, X3 and X4, n, R1, R2 and R3 are defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs of the compounds of formula (I) have therapeutic uses. These compounds are useful for the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system; damage to the central nervous system; cardiovascular disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; diabetes insipidus, and sleep apnea. They are particularly useful for the treatment of obesity.

Abstract: Hydantoin compounds which are active as glucokinase activators to increase insulin secretion which makes them useful for treating type II diabetes.

Abstract: There are described compounds of the formula in which R signifies lower alkoxycarbonyl, lower alkoxy-carbonylamino, the acyl residue of an &agr;- or &bgr;-amino acid or a residue of the general formula Q—X—Y—  (a) wherein Q signifies a 3- to 6-membered ring which optionally contains nitrogen, sulfur and/or oxygen and which is optionally bonded with a fused ring, X signifies a direct bond or a linear “spacer” with up to 6 atoms consisting of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and/or sulfur, of which up to 2 atoms can be nitrogen atoms and 1 atom can be oxygen or sulfur, and Y represents one of the groups —CO—, —CS—, —CONH— and (where X contains neither sulfur nor carbonyl as a terminal component) —SO2—; and in which R1 and R2 together signify a group of the formula wherein A represents hydrogen or a residue which is usable in the 3-position of cephalosporin antibiotics, and in which R3 represents