Abstract: The use of sulfonamides of formula (I) wherein R and R1 are as defined in the description, for the preparation of medicaments for the prevention of diabetes, in particular of type-1 diabetes is herein disclosed.

Abstract: (R)-2-Arylpropionamide compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical preparations of the compounds and a process for making the compounds are described. The 2-Arylpropionamides of the invention are useful in the prevention and treatment of tissue damage due to the exacerbated recruitment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and monocytes at inflammatory sites. In particular, the invention relates to the R enantiomers of omega-aminoalkylamides of 2-aryl propionic acids, of formula (I), for use as inhibitors of chemotaxis of neutrophils and monocytes induced by the C5a fraction of complement and by other chemotactic proteins whose biological activity is associated with activation of a 7-TD receptor. Selected compounds of formula (I) are dual inhibitors of both the C5a-induced chemotaxis of neutrophils and monocytes and the IL-8-induced chemotaxis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

Abstract: (R,S) 2-aryl-propionamide derivatives, or their single enantiomers (R) and (S) are disclosed useful in the treatment or prevention of symptoms and disorders such as pain and inflammation associated with the bradykinin B1 pathway.

Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions of alkylammonium salts of 2-aryipropionic acids, including ketoprofen, ibuprofen, naproxen and tiaprofenic acid. The compositions are suitable for parenteral administration arid, due to buffering at pH 8 to 9, cause less pain upon injection than previously known composition.

Abstract: (R)-Enantiomers of quaternary ammonium salts of general formula (I) are described: where R, R1, R2, R3, X and Z are as defined in the description. The process for their preparation and pharmaceutical preparations thereof are also described. The quaternary salts of the invention are useful in the inhibition of chemotaxis of neutrophils and monocytes induced by the fraction C5a of the complement and are used in the treatment of psoriasis, pemphigus and pemphigoid, rheumatoid arthritis, intestinal chronic inflammatory pathologies including ulcerative colitis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, idiopathic fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and glomerulonephritis. The compounds of the invention are advantageously used in the prevention and the treatment of injury caused by ischemia and reperfusion.

Abstract: The compounds of formula 1, wherein R and R2 are as defined in the disclosure, are useful in the prevention and treatment of tissue damage due to exacerbated recruitment of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN leukocytes) at the inflammatory sites.

Abstract: (S)-3-(4-Phenyl-1-piperazinyl)-1,2-propanediol cyclic acetals useful as antitussive agents and as intermediates for the preparation of levodropropizine and the salts thereof, as well as a process for the preparation of said acetals, are disclosed.