Abstract: This invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment and control of Syndrome X or type II diabetes in a mammal utilizing a combination of a sulfonylurea agent and a protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) inhibitors.

Abstract: This invention provides the use of a combination of an mTOR inhibitor and an antineoplastic alkylating agent in the treatment of neoplasms.

Abstract: This invention provides novel tricyclic diazepine compounds as well as methods and pharmaceutical compositions utilizing these compounds for the treatment and/or prevention and/or suppression of disorders which may be remedied or alleviated by oxytocin antagonist activity, including treatment of preterm labor, dysmenorrhea, endometritis, and for suppressing labor prior to caesarean delivery. These compounds are also useful in enhancing fertility rates, enhancing survival rates and synchronizing estrus in farm animals; and may be useful in the prevention and treatment of disfunctions of the oxytocin system in the central nervous system including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of the formula I: 1

Abstract: This invention relates to cyclic combination therapies and regimens utilizing substituted indoline derivative compounds that are antagonists of the progesterone receptor having the structure: wherein: R1 and R2 are (i) H, OH, OAc, alkylaryl, alkylheteroaryl, 1-propynyl, 3-propynyl, and optionally substituted alkyl, O(alkyl), aryl, or heteroaryl; (ii) a ring or (iii) a double bond; R3 is H, OH, NH2, CORA; or optionally substituted alkenyl or alkynyl; RA=H or optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aminoalkyl groups; R4=H, halo, CN, NH2, or optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aminoalkyl; R5 is a benzene ring; heterocyclic ring; an indole or benzothiophene; or pharmaceutically acceptable salt. R6 and R7 are H, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, iso-propyl, isobutyl, cyclohexyl, aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, or substituted heteroaryl.

Abstract: This invention provides [1,4]diazepino[6,7,1-jk]carbazole compounds of the formula: wherein: R1 and R2 are H, alkyl, alkoxy, halogen, fluorinated alkyl, —CN, —NH—SO2-alkyl, —SO2—NH-alkyl, alkyl amide, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, fluorinated alkoxy, acyl, phenoyl or thiophenoyl; R3, R4, R5 and R6 are H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy or cycloalkoxy; R7 is H or alkyl; R8 is H or alkyl; and the dashed line indicates an optional double bond; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as methods and pharmaceutical compositions utilizing them for the treatment or prevention of disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, migraine, sleep disorders, eating disorders, obesity, epilepsy, and spinal cord injury.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel substituted pyridine compounds of Formula (I) wherein the moiety Z, R1, R2 and R3 are as herein defined, having estrogenic activity, to processes for their preparation, to a combinatorial library and solid phase methods for preparing libraries of the compounds, to utilizing libraries of the compounds for drug discovery, to methods of treatment and to pharmaceutical compositions thereof.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, X and n are defined in the specification, are useful for the treatment of anxiety, depression and related CNS disorders, and other related conditions such as the treatment of alcohol and drug withdrawal, sexual dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: This invention provides O-&agr;-acyloxyalkyl ethers of the venlafaxine metabolite 4-[2-(Dimethylamino-1-(1-hydroxycyclohexyl)ethyl]phenol, represented by Formula (I): wherein: the configuration at the steriogenic center (*) may be R, S, or RS (the racemate); R1 is selected from C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, or the moiety: R2 is selected from H, or C1-C6 alkyl; or, R1 and R2 may be concatenated such that  form a moiety having formula (b): R3 is selected from H or C1-C6 alkyl; and R4 and R5 are independently selected from H, C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 thioalkoxy, —CN, —OH, —CF3, —OCF3, halogen, —NH2, —NO2, or mono or dialkylamino wherein each alkyl group has 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or hydrates thereof, R, S, or RS forms thereof; as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods treating central nervous system diso

Abstract: The present invention provides tricyclic carboxamide compounds and methods and pharmaceutical compositions for their use in treatment, prevention, or suppression of disorders which may be remedied or alleviated by oxytocin antagonist activity, including prevention and/or suppression of preterm labor, suppression of labor at term prior to caesarean deliver, and for the treatment of dysmenorrhea. These compounds are also useful in enhancing fertility rates, enhancing survival rates and synchronizing estrus in farm animals; and may be useful in the prevention and treatment of disfunctions of the oxytocin system in the central nervous system including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hormonal contraceptive product having two hormonal components, an estrogen and a gestagen, and a process for the combined, continuous administration of the product of the invention.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula: 1

Abstract: This invention provides the use of a combination of CCI-779 and an antineoplastic alkylating agent in the treatment of neoplasms.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel tricyclic diazepine compounds and methods and pharmaceutical compositions utilizing them for the treating or preventing disorders including diabetes insipidus, nocturnal enuresis, nocturia, urinary incontinence, bleeding and coagulation disorders, congestive heart failure or for inducing temporary delay of urination, and in conditions with increased vascular resistance and coronary vasoconstriction; and for the treating or preventing disorders remedied or alleviated by oxytocin antagonist activity, including suppression of preterm labor, dysmenorrhea, endometritis, and for suppressing labor at term prior to caesarean delivery. These compounds are also useful in enhancing fertility rates, enhancing survival rates and synchronizing estrus in farm animals; and treatment of disfunctions of the oxytocin system in the central nervous system including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Abstract: This invention relates to a 24 hour extended release dosage formulation and unit dosage form thereof of venlafaxine hydrochloride, an antidepressant, which provides better control of blood plasma levels than conventional tablet formulations which must be administered two or more times a day and further provides a lower incidence of nausea and vomiting than the conventional tablets. More particularly, the invention comprises an extended release formulation of venlafaxine hydrochloride comprising a therapeutically effective amount of venlafaxine hydrochloride in spheroids comprised of venlafaxine hydrochloride, microcrystalline cellulose and, optionally, hydroxypropylmethylcellulose coated with a mixture of ethyl cellulose and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose.

Abstract: A composition and method for enhancing cell growth and increasing the density of cell cultures containing lentivirus-infected host cells comprises adding a suitable quantity of an antibiotic to the culture to destroy harmful bacteria.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the general formulas: 1

Abstract: This invention provides methods for utilizing a PTPase inhibiting compounds and an aldose reductase inhibitor, including, but not limited to Minalrestat Tolrestat, Sorbinil, Methosorbinil, Zopolrestat, Epalrestat, Zenarestat Imirestat, and Ponalrestat, in methods for use in control and maintenance of type II diabetes in a mammal, for improving the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk profiles, reduction of, diabetic neuropathy, hyperlipidemia, lowering low density lipoprotein blood levels, lowering free fatty acid blood levels and triglyceride levels and inhibition, prevention or reduction of atherosclerosis in a type II diabetic, or the risk factors thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment utilizing a PTPase (protein-tyrosine phosphatase) inhibitors and an antilipemic agent, such as a bile acid sequestrants, a fibric acid derivative, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, lipase inhibitor or a nicotinic acid derivative, to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events in a mammal experiencing or subject to type II diabetes in mammals experiencing or subject to type II diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus), preferably in human type II diabetics, or in a mammal experiencing or subject to Syndrome X.

Abstract: This invention provides methods of using a pharmacological combination of one or more PTPase inhibiting agents and one or more thiazolidinedione agents, including pioglitizone or rosiglitazone, for treatment in a mammal of Syndrome X or type II diabetes or metabolic disorders mediated by insulin resistance or hyperglycemia. Further included in this invention is a method of modulating blood glucose levels in a mammal utilizing the combination of one or more PTPase inhibiting agents and one or more thiazolidinedione agents.