Abstract: A compound having the following formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein A is an aromatic five-membered heterocycle which optionally is fused with a cycloalkane ring; B is an alkylene; R1 and R2 are hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocycle, amino, alkylamino, arylamino or acyl, or R1 and R2 join together to form a heterocycle; X and Y are hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, mercapto, alkylthio, arylthio, carboxyl, an ester of carboxyl, an amide of carboxyl, cyano or nitro; p is 0, 1 or 2; and q is 0 or 1. The compound is useful for treating diseases in which angiogenesis or augmentation of vascular permeability is involved.

Abstract: A compound of formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 represent hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl or R3 represents hydroxyl, lower alkoxy, lower cycloalkyloxy, aryloxy, carboxy, lower alkoxycarbonyl, or NRaRb of the formula R4 and R5 represent halogen, lower alkyl, hydroxyl, or lower alkoxy; R6 represents halogen, lower alkyl, aryl, heterocyclic, hydroxy, lower alkoxy, mercapto, lower alkylthio, lower alkylcarbonyl, amino, nitro or cyano; R7 represents lower alkyl, hydroxyl or lower alkoxy; Ra and Rb represent hydrogen or lower alkyl; ring A represents a cyclic hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic ring; ring B represents a heterocyclic ring; X represents lower alkylene; Z represents a single bond or lower alkylene; Y represents lower alkylene and W1-W2 represents CH—CH, or represents a single bond and W1-W2 represents N—CH, CH—N or CH—CH; and 1, m, n and o represent 0, 1, 2, or 3.

Abstract: A method for treating a disease in which Rho kinase is involved. The method is carried out by administering to a patient in need thereof a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound of the following formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein the ring X is a benzene ring or a pyridine ring; R1 and R2 are hydrogen or alkyl or together form a cycloalkene ring; R3 is hydrogen, substituted alkyl, unsubstituted alkenyl, carboxyl or an ester or an amide thereof, amino or a cyano; R4 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, unsubstituted alkenyloxy, unsubstituted cycloalkyloxy substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, unsubstituted alkenyl, unsubstituted cycloalkyl, amino, substituted or unsubstituted alkylamino, nitro, cyano or a monocyclic heterocycle; and R5 is a halogen atom or a hydrogen atom.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to create a novel indazole derivative having a spiro ring structure in a side chain, which is useful as a pharmaceutical, and to find a new pharmacological activity of the derivative. The present invention compound is represented by the general formula [I] and has an excellent Rho kinase inhibitory activity. In the formula, the ring X represents a benzene ring or a pyridine ring; R1 and R2 represent halogen, H, OH, alkoxy, cycloalkyloxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl or the like; R3 represents halogen, H or the like; R4 and R5 represent halogen, H or the like; R6 and R7 represent H, alkyl or the like; and m, n, p and q represent an integer of 0 to 3. In this connection, each group may have a substituent.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new medicinal use of 2-phenyl-1,2-benzisoselenazol-3(2H)-one or a salt thereof. 2-Phenyl-1,2-benzisoselenazol-3(2H)-one or a salt thereof exhibits an excellent prevention and improvement effect in corneal disorder models, and is therefore useful as a preventive or therapeutic agent for a keratoconjunctival disorder such as dry eye, superficial punctate keratopathy, corneal epithelial defects, corneal erosion, corneal ulcer, conjunctival epithelial defects, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis, filamentary keratoconjunctivitis, keratitis or conjunctivitis.

Abstract: Described herein are formulations and methods for treating, inhibiting, preventing, delaying onset, or causing regression of a disease or condition relating to vascular permeability.

Abstract: A compound having the following formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein A is benzene or an aromatic five-membered heterocycle which optionally is fused with a cycloalkane ring; B is an alkylene; R1 and R2 are hydrogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocycle, amino, alkylamino, arylamino or acyl, or R1 and R2 join together to form a heterocycle; X and Y are hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, mercapto, alkylthio, arylthio, carboxyl, an ester of carboxyl, an amide of carboxyl, cyano or nitro; p is 0, 1 or 2; and q is 0 or 1. The compound is useful for treating diseases in which angiogenesis or augmentation of vascular permeability is involved.

Abstract: A compound having the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: wherein R1 and R2 represent hydrogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkenyl, a lower alkynyl or a group having the following formula (2): (R6)n—{circle around (A)}—Z—??(2), R3 represents hydroxy, a lower alkoxy, a lower cycloalkyloxy, an aryloxy, carboxy, a lower alkoxycarbonyl, or —NRaRb having the following formula (3): (R7)o—{circle around (B)}—??(3), R4 and R5 represent halogen, a lower alkyl, hydroxy, or a lower alkoxy; R6 represents halogen, a lower alkyl, an aryl group, a heterocyclic, a hydroxy, a lower alkoxy, mercapto, a lower alkylthio, a lower alkylcarbonyl, amino, nitro or cyano; R7 represents a lower alkyl, hydroxy or a lower alkoxy; Ra and Rb represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl; the ring A represents a cyclic hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic ring; the ring B represents a heterocyclic ring having one or more heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of nitrogen and oxygen; X represents a lower alkylene; Y represents a lower alkyle

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by the general formula (1) or a salt thereof. The compound or a salt thereof has an inhibitory activity on IKK? and is therefore useful as preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease associated with IKK?. In the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an aryl group, a hydroxy group, or the like; R2 represents a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkenyl group, a lower alkynyl group, or the like; and m represents 0, 1, 2, or the like.

Abstract: The compounds represented in general formula (1) or a salt thereof are useful for glucocorticoid receptor modulators. In the formula, R1 represents a lower alkyl group, a lower cycloalkyl group, an aryl group and the like; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like; R4 and R5 represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like; R6 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like; R7 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkenyl group and the like; W represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, NR8 and the like; R8 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like; X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; Y represents a lower alkylene group and the like; Z represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, NR9, OCO or OSO2; R9 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group and the like respectively.

Abstract: A method for preventing or treating a metabolic disorder, an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, an allergic disease, a central nervous system disease, a cardiovascular disease, a homeostasis-related disease or glaucoma, involving administering a compound or a salt thereof, the compound having the following formula (1) wherein R1 represents alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclic or aralkyl; R7 represents cycloalkyl, aryl or heterocyclic; W represents oxygen or NR8, Y represents alkylene, Z represents oxygen, sulfur, OCO or NR9; R2, R3, R4, R6, R8 and R9 represent hydrogen or alkyl.

Abstract: A therapeutic method for treating a skin wound involving administering to a patient in need thereof a composition containing pharmaceutically effective amounts of the following components: (1) a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by Ser-Ser-Ser-Arg (SEQ ID NO: 1) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and (2) a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by Phe-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2 (SEQ ID NO: 2) or substance P or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable additive.

Abstract: A clear ophthalmic solution containing latanoprost having a concentration of 0.005% (W/V), 0.003 to 0.01% (W/V) benzalkonium chloride and at least one agent selected from the group consisting of glycerin, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol and trehalose, wherein the agent is in a concentration to make the solution isotonic. A method of preventing white turbidity in an ophthalmic solution containing latanoprost having a concentration of 0.005% (W/V) and 0.003 to 0.01% (W/V) benzalkonium chloride, the method involving adding to the solution at least one agent selected from the group consisting of glycerin, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol and trehalose, wherein the agent is in a concentration to make the solution isotonic.

Abstract: Diseases and conditions associated with tissues of the body, including but not limited to tissues in the eye, can be effectively treated, prevented, inhibited, onset delayed, or regression caused by administering therapeutic agents to those tissues. Described herein are ophthalmic formulations that deliver a variety of therapeutic agents, including but not limited to rapamycin (sirolimus), analogs thereof (rapalogs) or other mTOR inhibitors, to a subject for an extended period of time. The ophthalmic formulations may be placed in an aqueous medium of a subject, including but not limited to intraocular or periocular administration, or placement proximate to a site of a disease or condition to be treated in a subject. A method may be used to administer a therapeutic agent to treat or prevent age-related macular degeneration, macular edema, diabetic retinopathy, uveitis, dry eye, or a hyperpermeability disease in a subject.

Abstract: Intravitreal administration of a JNK-inhibitory peptide less than 150 amino acids in length, containing at least one D-amino acid, and having (a) a JNK-inhibitory sequence of at least any of SEQ ID NO: 1 and SEQ ID NO: 2, and (b) a transport sequence of at least any of SEQ ID NO: 3 and SEQ ID NO: 4 suppressed spermidine-induced retinal pigment epithelial damage, tunicamycin-induced photoreceptor cell damage, and laser-induced choroidal neovascularization. Thus, the JNK-inhibitory peptide of the present invention is useful for prophylaxis or therapy of a retinal disease. By the use of this JNK-inhibitory peptide, a drug and a method are provided which are capable of preventing or treating a retinal disease even by topical administration to the eye, and use of the JKN-inhibitory peptide for manufacturing the drug is also provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide better formulations of a latanoprost ophthalmic solution. The present invention provides a clear ophthalmic solution comprising latanoprost as an active ingredient and benzalkonium chloride as a preservative wherein white turbidity due to a change of formulation is prevented by at least one means selected from the following 1) to 3); 1) adding a surfactant, 2) using benzalkonium chloride represented by the formula of [C6H5CH2N(CH3)2R]Cl (wherein R is alkyl having 12 carbon atoms) as the preservative and 3) adding a nonionic tonicity agent as a tonicity agent.

Abstract: A therapeutic composition for treating glaucoma or for reducing intraocular pressure containing a combination of pharmaceutically effective amounts of drugs including (i) a Rho kinase inhibitor selected from the group consisting of (R)-(+)-N-(1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridin-4-yl)-4-(1-aminoethyl)benzamide and 1-(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-homopiperazine, or a salt thereof and (ii) a prostaglandin which is latanoprost or a salt of latanoprost, and (iii) optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. A therapeutic composition for treating glaucoma or for reducing intraocular pressure containing a combination of pharmaceutically effective amounts of drugs comprising (i) a Rho kinase which is (R)-(+)-N-(1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridin-4-yl)-4-(1-aminoethyl)benzamide or a slat thereof and (ii) a prostaglandin which is isopropyl unoprostone or a salt thereof, and (iii) optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

Abstract: Diseases associated with the tissues in the posterior segment of the eye can be effectively treated by administering therapeutic agents transsclerally to those tissues. Compositions, devices, and methods for delivering therapeutic agents so that they cross the sclera and reach these tissues include injecting solutions or suspensions adjacent to or within the sclera and implanting solid structures containing the therapeutic agent adjacent to or within the sclera. These methods may be used for administering rapamycin or related compounds to treat choroidal neovascularization associated with age-related macular degeneration.

Abstract: A method of protecting a retinal neuronal cell by administering an effective amount of a prostaglandin F2? derivative to a patient. A method of preventing or treating an eye disease associated with retinal neuronal cell damage by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a prostaglandin F2? derivative to a patient.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1) or a salt thereof: The compound has an inhibitory activity on the production of interleukin-6, and is therefore useful as a therapeutic agent for a disease associated with interleukin-6, ocular inflammatory diseases and the like. In the formula, R1 represents a halogen atom, a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group which may have a substituent, a formyl group, or a lower alkylcarbonyl group which may have a substituent, R2 represents a bicyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent or a bicyclic heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group which may have a substituent, an aryl group which may have a substituent, or an acyl group.