Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that release nitric oxide, e.g., a compound of Formula (I) wherein R1-10, X, and n are as described herein, which are NSAID derivatives comprising a diazeniumdiolate moiety N2O2?. The compounds are chemopreventive agents with gastric-sparing, analgesic, cardioprotective, and/or anti-inflammatory properties. Also disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed is a method of preventing or treating cancer or treating inflammation or an inflammation-related condition in a mammal comprising administering an effective amount of a compound of the invention to the mammal.

Abstract: This invention provides a prodrug that help arthritis patients without increasing cardiovascular and gastrointestinal risk. A novel group of hybrid nitric oxide-releasing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NO-NSAIDs), moiety attached via a one -carbon methylene spacer to the carboxylic acid group of the traditional NSAIDs aspirin, ibuprofen and indomethacin were synthesized. The ester prodrugs showed equipotent anti-inflammatory activities in vivo to that of the parent aspirin, ibuprofen and indomethacin. The simultaneous release of parent drug and nitric oxide from the NO- prodrugs constitutes a potentially beneficial property for the prophylactic prevention of thrombus formation and adverse cardiovascular events such as stroke and myocardial infarction. Data acquired in an in vivo ulcer index (UI) assay showed that this group of ester prodrugs in which no lesions were observed when compared to the parent drugs at equivalent doses.

Abstract: A method and use of a labelled compound for monitoring the transfer of a foreign gene including selecting the foreign gene which has been isolated from a cell or virus and transferred into a cell population and selecting the labelled compound which will interact selectively with a protein expressed by the foreign gene to produce a labelled product. The labelled compound has a rate of expulsion from the cells which is greater than that of the labelled product. Further, the use and method include administering to the cells an effective dose of the labelled compound such that the labelled compound selectively interacts with the protein to produce the labelled product, waiting a period of time such that a substantial amount of the labelled compound has been expelled from the cells and such that a detectable amount of the labelled product remains and determining the extent and location of the protein by detecting the labelled product.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compounds of the general formula (1): ##STR1## have been prepared and non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the ring system is a 1,2- or 1,4-dihydropyridyl radical; R.sub.1 is a hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkyl carbonyl or lower alkoxy carbonyl substituent; R.sub.2 is a lower alkly or phenyl substituent; R.sub.3 is a lower alkoxy carbonyl, (N,N-lower dialkylamino) lower alkoxy carbonyl, (N-lower alkyl-N-phenyl lower alkyl amino) lower alkoxy carbonyl, lower alkoxy lower alkoxy carbonyl, nitro, or cyano substituent; R.sub.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compounds of the general formula (1) have been prepared ##STR1## and non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R.sub.1 is a lower alkyl, phenyl lower alkyl, amino substituted phenyl lower alkyl, nitro substituted phenyl lower alkyl, cycloalkyl lower alkyl or a lower alkenyl substituent, R.sub.2 is a member selected from the group consisting of a cyano, pyridylsulfonyl, lower alkyl substituted sulfonyl, phenylsulfonyl, lower alkyl substituted phenylsulfonyl, lower alkoxy substituted phenylsulfonyl, halogen substituted phenylsulfonyl, nitro substituted phenylsulfonyl, amino substituted phenylsulfonyl and lower alkyl amido substituted phenylsulfonyl; R.sub.3 is a hydrogen or halogen atom; and R.sub.4 is a hydrogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy substituent, lower denoting a straight or branched chain having from 1-4 carbon atoms. These compounds exhibit analgesic agonist activity or analgesic agonist-antagonist activities.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compounds of the general formula ##STR1## and non-toxic pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof wherein R.sup.1 is inter alia alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, or certain pyridyl or phenyl radicals, and with provisoR.sup.2 is selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, amino, hydroxyl, halogen, carboxyl, amido, and --CON(lower alkyl).sub.2. Methods of preparing these compounds are described. The compounds exhibit analgesic, anti-inflammatory, hyperglycemic and/or hypoglycemic activity.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compounds of the general formula ##STR1## and non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, lower alkoxy having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and hydroxy lower alkyl having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and if R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 is other than hydrogen, the other substituent is hydrogen; and R.sub.3 is a member selected from the group consisting of pyridyl, phenyl, lower alkyl substituted pyridyl, lower alkoxy substituted pyridyl, lower alkyl substituted phenyl and lower alkoxy substituted phenyl, the lower alkyl and alkoxy substituents having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms. These compounds exhibit an analgesic, hyperglycemic or anti-inflammatory activity.