Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: This invention relates to racemic and optically active N-(2-chloro-5-methylthiophenyl)-N′-(3-methylsulfinylphenyl)-N′-methylguanidine, N-(2-chloro-5-methylsulfinylphenyl)-1-(7-trifluoromethyl- 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolinyl)carboximidamide, and N-(3-methylsulfinylphenyl)-N-methyl-N′-(2-chloro-5-methoxyphenyl)guanidine and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions and therapeutic methods of treatment that comprise such compounds. Compounds of the invention are particularly useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of neurological injury and neurodegenerative disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to certain imine-substituted heterocyclic compounds, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more such compounds. Compounds of the invention are particularly useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of neurological injury and neurodegenerative disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treatment of nerve cell death (degeneration) and neurodegenerative diseases. Methods of the invention include administering, an effective amount of GDF-1 alone or in combination with neurotrophin-3, to a patient in need of such treatment such as a person suffering from stroke or traumatic brain injury or a neurodegenerative disease.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: Methods are provided for treatment of eye disorders and injury, including methods for treatment of reduced flow of blood or other nutrients to retinal tissue and/or optic nerve, methods for treatment of retinal ischemia and trauma and methods for treatment for optic nerve injury/damage.

Abstract: A long-distance homology cloning method which involves a multi-oligonucleotide, multi-step and iterative strategy designed to identify DNA sequences that code for evolutionary conserved amino acid sequences.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for treating pathophysiological conditions of the mammalian nervous system. The methods involve administering an effective amount of a polypeptide comprising amino acids 51 to 422 of human GGF2.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for treating pathophysiological conditions of the mammalian nervous system. The methods involve administering pharmaceutically effective amounts of recombinant polypeptides comprising epidermal growth factor-like domains encoded by the GGF/p185erbB2 ligand gene.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines of the following Formula: ##STR1## and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines of the following Formula: ##STR1## and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: Disclosed is the characterization and purification of DNA encoding a numerous polypeptides useful for the stimulation of glial cell (particularly, Schwann cell) mitogenesis and treating glial cell tumors. Also disclosed are DNA sequences encoding novel polypeptides which may have use in stimulating glial cell mitogenesis and treating glial cell tumors. Methods for the synthesis, purification and testing of both known and novel polypeptides for their use as both therapeutic and diagnostic aids in the treatment of diseases involving glial cells are also provided. Methods are also provided for the use of these polypeptides for the preparation of antibody probes useful for both diagnostic and therapeutic use in diseases involving glial cells.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines of the following Formula: ##STR1## and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of affecting cellular communication in a vertebrate. The communication is affected by the administration of a neuregulin to a vertebrate, where the neuregulin interacts with a first cell type which results in the production of a product (i.e., Product A). This product, in turn, affects the function of a second cell type. Methods are disclosed in which the affect in function of the second cell type, described above, results in the production of a second product (i.e., Product B) which, in turn, can affect the function of the first cell type or a third cell type. Additional methods are included for treatment of disorders involving an altered or inadequate level of production of a product involved in cellular communication.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the treatment of central nervous system disorders, neurological disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, drug abuse, angina, migraine, hypertension and depression by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of certain sigma receptor ligands to a patient in need of such treatment. The invention further relates to novel sigma receptor ligands having high binding to the sigma receptor and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.

Abstract: Modulators of neurotransmitter release including substituted guanidines, N"-aminoguanidines, and N,N'N",N"'-tetrasubstituted hydrazinedicarboximidamides, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods involving the use of such neurotransmitter release modulators for the treatment or prevention of pathophysiologic conditions characterized by the release of excessive or inappropriate levels of neurotransmitters. Also disclosed are screening assays for compounds which selectively inhibit glutamate release. Also disclosed are methods of blocking voltage sensitive sodium and calcium channels in mammalian nerve cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutically acceptable compounds, including certain substituted indolinyl and derivatives thereof, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolinyl and derivatives thereof, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolinyl, benz[cd]indolinyl and 5,6-dihydrophenanthridinyl compounds, and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more such compounds. Compounds of the invention are particularly useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of neurological injury and neurodegenerative disorders.

Abstract: The present invention provides therapeutically useful substituted guanidines and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such guanidines.