Abstract: This invention relates to adenosine derivatives and analogs which possess adenosine agonist activity and are useful as anti-hypertensive and anti-ischemic agents, to pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and to their use in treating hypertension and myocardial ischemia, and to methods and intermediates used in the preparation of such compounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to N-arylcarbamoyl proline analogues which are useful as cholecystokinin and gastrin antagonists, to pharmaceutical compositions including such proline analogues, and to their use in preventing or treating cholecystokinin or gastrin related disorders.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel peptide and pseudopeptide derivatives and analogs of aspartic acid which are useful as inhibitors of platelet aggregation and thrombus formation in mammalian blood, to pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and to their use in inhibiting thrombus formation and platelet aggregation in mammals.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel peptide and pseudopeptide derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that inhibit platelet aggregation and thrombus formation in mammalian blood.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of lowering abnormally high serum cholesterol levels in the body without significantly reducing mevalonic metabolite synthesis and to novel pharmacological compositions containing as an active ingredient bisphosphonic acid and ester compounds containing a mono-, bi- or tricyclic ring linked with a bisphosphonate moiety through a basic amino alkylene group. This invention also provides novel bisphosphonate compounds and the processes for their preparation.

Abstract: Methods of inhibiting cell proliferation in a patient suffering from such disorder comprising the use of a styryl-substituted heteroaryl compound wherein the heteroaryl group is a monocyclic ring with 1 or 2 heteroatoms, or a bicyclic ring with 1 to about 4 heteroatoms, said compound optionally substituted or polysubstituted, with the proviso that when said ring is polysubstituted, the substituents do not have a common point of attachment to said ring, and those compounds wherein no substituent on the heteroaryl group is a carboxy group or an ester group, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fail-safe combination of chemical and physical means for rendering a blood product which comprises a labile blood protein free of viruses without incurring protein denaturation. The blood product is contacted with an effective amount of a selected chemical disinfectant, preferably, sodium thiocyanate in combination with a physical process, preferably, ultrafiltration. The blood product may be plasma, serum, plasma concentrate, cryoprecipitate, cryosupernatant, plasma fractionation precipitate or plasma fractionation supernatant containing viruses such as hepatitis or human immunodeficiency virus.

Abstract: Novel compounds which are 2,6-methano-2H-1-benzoxocincarboxamides having 5-HT.sub.3 -antagonist properties including unique CNS, antiemetic and gastric prokinetic activities and which are void of any significant D.sub.2 receptor binding affinity, therapeutic compositions and methods of treatment of disorders which result from 5-HT.sub.3 activity using said compounds. Processes for their preparation and the preparation of their intermediates are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the synthesis of 2-chloro-cis-[5a(S)-9a(S)-(5a,6,7,8,9,9a-hexahydro)]dibenzofuran-4-carboxy lic acid by an intramolecular Heck stereospecific synthesis substantially free of undesirable 8-chloro-2,6-methano-2H-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-1-benzoxocin-10-carboxylic.

Abstract: Pure homogeneous glia maturation factor is disclosed with methods for producing it from neutral sources and by molecular cloning and genetic engineering.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of 2-aryl-1-cyclohexene-1-carboxaldehydes from 1-arylcyclohexenes which are intermediates for trans-6-[(2-arylsubstituted cycloalkenyl and substituted cycloalkyl)alkenyl and alkyl]-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-ones.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel diaminoalkanoic acid derivatives that inhibit platelet aggregation and thrombus formation in mammalian blood thereby being useful in the prevention and treatment of thrombosis associated with disease states such as myocardial infarction, stroke, peripheral arterial disease and disseminated intravascular coagulation, to pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and to their use in inhibiting thrombus formation and platelet aggregation in mammals.

Abstract: Disclosed are intermediates and a process of making an anticholesterolemic compound of the formula ##STR1## the corresponding ring-opened hydroxy acids derived therefrom and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: This invention is directed to certain dibenzofurancarboxamides and their use as 5HT.sub.3 antagonists having unique CNS, anti-emetic and gastric prokinctic activity void of any significant D.sub.2 receptor binding properties. This invention also describes novel processes necessary for their preparation.

Abstract: Compounds of formula: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 represents a polyfluoroalkoxy radical and R.sub.2 represents an alkylthio, alkylsulphinyl or alkylsulphonyl radical, their salts, their preparation and the medicaments containing them.

Abstract: Monocyclic aryl compounds having selective LTB.sub.4 antagonists properties and comprising an amido substituent, a substituent group having a terminal carboxylic acid or derivative thereof and a lipophilic substituent, therapeutic compositions and methods of treatment of disorders which result from LTB.sub.4 activity using the monocyclic aryl compounds are disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to the stereospecific process for the preparation, separation and purification of hexahydrodibenzofurans which are used in the preparation of the 5HT.sub.3 compounds. More specifically, the present invention relates to a process for the preparation of substantially optically pure cishexahydrodibenzofuran compounds including at least two chiral fused ring centers which comprises the acidic catalyzed stereospecific ring closure by the intra-molecular inversion of a gamma, i.e. 2', carbon atom of a 2-[(2'-leaving group)cycloalkyl]phenol.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method for stereoselectively preparing a syn-dihydroxylated compound comprising reacting a 3-hydroxyket-1-one and a sterically hindered dialkylated borane to form a complex at about -50.degree. C. to about 0.degree. C., and reducing the complex with hydride at about -25.degree. C. to about 50.degree. C.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds which are derivatives of cyclopentane which are useful as antihypertensive agents, to pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and to their use in treating hypertension.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the synthesis of 2-chloro-cis-[5a(S)-9a(S)-(5a,6,7,8,9,9a-hexahydro)]dibenzofuran-4-carboxy lic acid by a stereospecific catalytic heteroannulation synthesis free of undesirable 8-chloro-2,6-methano-2H-3,4,5,6-tetrahydro-1-benzoxocin-10-carboxylic.