Abstract: This invention provides a means for preparing a monohydrate of the lithium salt of cis 4-cyano-4-[3-(cyclopentyloxy)-4-methoxyphenyl]cyclohexanecarboxylate which is a novel composition of matter.
Abstract: New peptide-based Gemini compounds comprising two linked chains (a) each having: (1) a positively charged hydrophilic head, Q1 or Q2 formed from one or more amino acids and/or amines, (2) a central portion, P1 or P2, having a polypeptide backbone, and (3) a hydrophobic tail, R1 or R2, the central sections of each chain being linked together by bridge Y through residues in P1 and P2, are disclosed. Methods for their preparation and uses are also disclosed. Such uses include transfection of polynucleotides into cells in vivo.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 8, 2000
Date of Patent:
February 17, 2004
Assignee:
SmithKline Beecham p.l.c.
Inventors:
Patrick Camilleri, Andreas Kremer, Simon Quentyn John Rice
Abstract: The invention related to novel Borrelia, and OspA antigens derived therefrom. These antigens show little homology with know OspA's and are therefore useful as vaccine and diagnostic reagents. Multicomponent vaccines based on OspA's from different Borrelia groups are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 1999
Date of Patent:
January 13, 2004
Assignees:
SmithKline Beecham Biologicals (s.a.), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften
e.V., Deutsches Krebs Forschungszentrum Stiftung des Offentlichen
Rechts
Inventors:
Yves Lobet, Markus Simon, Ulrich Schaible, Reinhard Wallich, Michael Kramer
Abstract: This invention relates to a method for the prophylaxis of or for treating COPD by administering a PDE4 inhibitor which has a defined therapeutic ratio.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 31, 2001
Date of Patent:
December 30, 2003
Assignee:
SmithKline Beecham Corporation
Inventors:
Siegfried B. Christensen, IV, Mary S. Barnette, Theodore J. Torphy
Abstract: Non-peptide TPO mimetics are disclosed, as well as a method of treating thrombocytopenia, in a mammal, including a human, in need thereof, which comprises administering to such mammal an effective amount of a selected hydroxy-1-azo-naphthalene derivative.
Abstract: Invented are non-peptide TPO mimetics. Also invented is a method of treating thrombocytopenia, in a mammal, including a human, in need thereof which comprises administering to such mammal an effective amount of a selected hydroxy-1-azobenzene derivative.
Abstract: Invented are G-CSF mimetics. Also invented are selected octacyclic compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods of using these compounds as G-CSF mimetics. Also invented are novel processes used in preparing these compounds.
Abstract: The present invention provides vaccine compositions comprising an oil-in-water emulsion optionally with 3 De-O-acylated monophosphoryl lipid A and QS21. The vaccine compositions are potent inducers of a range of immune responses.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 24, 2000
Date of Patent:
September 23, 2003
Assignee:
SmithKline Beecham Biologicals s.a.
Inventors:
Patricia Marie Momin, Nathalie Marie-Josephe Garcon
Abstract: Herein is provided a process for preparing substituted cyclohexanoic acids of formula (I), where Ra is a carbon-containing group optionally linked by oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen to the phenyl ring and j is 1-5; and one of R and R* is hydrogen and the other is C(O)OH.
Abstract: Novel N-phenyl imidazole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and their use as endothelin receptor antagonists are described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2003
Date of Patent:
September 16, 2003
Assignee:
SmithKline Beecham Corporation
Inventors:
John Duncan Elliott, Joseph Weinstock, Jia-Ning Xiang
Abstract: A vaccine formulation for the treatment or prophylaxis of hepatitis, especially hepatitis B, infections is provided comprising the hepatitis antigen and a suitable carrier such as alum in combination with 3-O-deacylated monophosphoryl lipid A. Combination vaccines including the vaccine formulation are also described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 21, 2001
Date of Patent:
September 16, 2003
Assignee:
SmithKline Beecham Biologicals (s.a.)
Inventors:
Nathalie Marie-Josephe Claude Garcon-Johnson, Pierre Hauser, Clothilde Thiriart, Pierre Voet
Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel pharmaceutical composition and process for preparing swallowable rapidly disintegrating methylcellulose and lipstatin derivatives together in combination with a suitable diluent and excipients.
Abstract:
Compounds of formula (I) in which: R1 is hydrogen or an organic substituent group; R2 is a fused bicyclic heterocyclic ring system of general formula (a) wherein R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen or one or more substituents replacing hydrogen atoms in the ring system shown; m is 2 or 3; p is 0, 1 or 2; and R3 is hydrogen, a salt-forming cation or an ester-forming group; and the symbol ═/═ indicates that the double bond may be in either the E or Z configuration.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 24, 1995
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2003
Assignee:
SMithKline Beecham p.l.c.
Inventors:
Nigel John Perryman Broom, Frank Peter Harrington
Abstract: This invention relates to the compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate or solvate thereof, which is an inhibitor of cysteine proteases, particularly cathepsin K, and is useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of bone loss or of cartilage degradation is a factor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 6, 2002
Date of Patent:
July 22, 2003
Assignee:
SmithKline Beecham Corporation
Inventors:
Robert W. Marquis, Jr., Daniel Frank Veber
Abstract:
A process for preparing compounds of formula (I), by nitrosating compounds of formula (II), compounds of formula (I) having pharmaceutical activity.