Abstract: A compound of the formula: wherein ring A is an optionally substituted benzene ring; ring B′ is an optionally substituted non-aromatic heterocyclic ring having, the same or different, two or more hetero atoms; R1 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, which may be different from one another in the repetition of n; Y is an optionally substituted amino group or an optionally substituted N-containing saturated heterocyclic group; n denotes an integer of 1 to 10, provided that when the ring B′ is a 5- to 7-membered ring, the ring B′ contains at least one nitrogen atom as hetero atom and n denotes an integer of 2 to 10, or a salt thereof. The compounds and salts thereof have an excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and antidepressant activity, and are useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: wherein R1 represents a lower alkyl; R2 represents H, an optionally substituted alkyl or an optionally substituted alkenyl; R3 and R4 each represents an optionally substituted lower alkyl or a lower alkoxy, or R3 and R4 form, taken together, an optionally substituted butadienylene; and X1 and X2 each represents an optionally esterified or etherified hydroxy, or a salt thereof is useful for protecting cells from the cytotoxicity of &bgr;-amyloid protein.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting production or secretion of amyloid .beta. protein, which comprises a compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein ring A is an optionally substituted benzene ring, R represents OR.sup.1, ##STR2## or SR.sup.1, wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and each is selected from a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, form an optionally substituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, and Y is an optionally substituted alkyl group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, if necessary, with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, carrier or diluent.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising idebenone in combination with a compound having acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity is useful for treating or preventing Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising idebenone of the present invention is useful for prevention of the progression of dementia.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein Ar represents a tetracyclic fused heterocyclic group which may be substituted; R.sup.1 represents H or a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted; Y represents an amino acid or nitrogen-containing saturated heterocyclic group which may be substituted, its salt, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine uptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents an optionally substituted tricyclic condensed benzene ring group which includes at least one heterocyclic ring as a component ring; n represents an integer from 2 to 10; R.sup.1 represents H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, which may be different from one another in the repetition of n; and Y represents an optionally substituted 4-piperidinyl, 1-piperazinyl or 4-benzyl-1-piperidinyl group, or a salt thereof, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine reuptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein Ar represents a tetracyclic fused heterocyclic group which may be substituted; R.sup.1 represents H or a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted; Y represents an amino or nitrogen-containing saturated heterocyclic group which may be substituted, its salt, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine uptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Abstract: The present invention relates to prevention or treatment a brain edema, an intracranial hemorrhage and a cerebral infarction by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for inhibiting a vascular permeability enhancer, which the compound is of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is halogen, --X--R.sup.3 in which X is O, S, NH or NHNH, and R.sup.3 is H, acyl, a hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group, or --Y.dbd.R.sup.4 in which Y is N or NHN, and R.sup.4 is a divalent hydrocarbon group, and R.sup.1 is H, halogen, a hydrocarbon group, a heterocyclic group or --Z--R.sup.5 in which Z is O, S or NH, and R.sup.5 is H, a hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group;R.sup.2 is H, halogen, a hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group;B is --W--R.sup.6 in which W is CH.sub.2, CO or CS, and R.sup.

Abstract: A compound useful for central antioxidant having inhibitory activity of degeneration and necrocytosis of cerebral cells of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A and B are independently (1) a group of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, or R.sub.1 together with R.sub.2 and the nitrogen atom to which they are bound may form a cyclic amino group, provided that both R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are not hydrogen atom at the same time, or (2) a group of the formula: ##STR3## wherein D is O or S, R.sub.3 is hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue or an optionally substituted acyl group, m is 1, 2, or 3 and n is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4;p is 1 or 2, provided that both A may be the same or different when p is 2; andR.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are independently hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl or a lower alkoxy, or R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 may bond together to form --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents an optionally substituted tricyclic condensed benzene ring group which includes at least one heterocyclic ring as a component ring; n represents an integer from 2 to 10; R.sup.1 represents H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, which may be different from one another in the repetition of n; and Y represents an optionally substituted 4-piperidinyl, 1-piperazinyl or 4-benzyl-1-piperidinyl group, or a salt thereof, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine reuptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon or acyl group; ring A is an optionally further substituted benzene ring; n is an integer of 1 to 10; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may form an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom; k is an integer of 0 to 3; and m is an integer of 1 to 8; provided that when k=0 and m=2, n is an integer of not less than 2 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, exhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine reuptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic/prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Abstract: 1. A cyclic amine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein B means a saturated or unsaturated 5- to 7-membered aza-heterocyclic group which may be substituted; A means a bond or an alkylene or alkenylene group which may be substituted by hydrocarbon residues, oxo, hydroxyimino, and/or hydroxy, .sub.-- means either a single bond or a double bond (provided that when A means a bond, .sub.-- means a single bond); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently mean a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted (provided that both of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not hydrogen atoms) or jointly form a cyclic amino group together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, n is 0, 1 or 2 and p is 1 or 2 or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.The compounds are useful for therapy of cerebral edema, acute symptoms in cerebral apoplexy and protection of brain and nerve cell, or useful as anticholinesterase or as brain function-improving agent.

Abstract: An aminoketone compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein ring A' means a five through eight-membered cyclic group which may be substituted and may contain one or two hetero atom(s) of O, S, N, as the ring-constituents; R.sup.1' means a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted; R.sup.2' means a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.3' means an aromatic group which may be substituted; R.sup.4' means a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or aromatic group which may be substituted; n' means an integer of 2 to 7, or a salt thereof, is useful as an cholinesterase inhibitors and a cerebral function ameliorating agent.

Abstract: 1. A cyclic amine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein B means a saturated or unsaturated 5- to 7-membered aza-heterocyclic group which may be substituted; A means a bond or an alkylene or alkenylene group which may be substituted by hydrocarbon residues, oxo, hydroxyimino, and/or hydroxy, --means either a single bond or a double bond (provided that when A means a bond, --means a single bond); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently mean a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted (provided that both of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not hydrogen atoms) or jointly form a cyclic amino group together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, n is 0, 1 or 2 and p is 1 or 2 or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.The compounds are useful for therapy of cerebral edema, acute symptoms in cerebral apoplexy and protection of brain and nerve cell, or useful as anticholinesterase or as brain function-improving agent.

Abstract: A condensed heterocyclic derivative of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or R.sup.1 --N< wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted or an acyl group which may be substituted; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted; ring A is a benzene ring which may be substituted, k is a whole number of 0 to 3; m is a whole number of 1 to 8; and n is a whole number of 1 to 6, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof exhibiting high colinesterase inhibitory activity, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optically active isoindoline derivative represented by the formula: ##STR1## which is useful as an improving, therapeutic and preventive agent for anxiety-associated nervous symptoms, and an intermediate for synthesis thereof.

Abstract: An aralkylamine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 means a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.2 means an aromatic group which may be substituted; R.sup.3 means a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aromatic group which may be substituted; n means an integer of 0 to 7; ring A means a five-through eight-membered cyclic group which may be substituted and may contain one or two hetero atom(s) of O and S atoms as the ring-constituents; and ring B means a benzene ring which may be substituted, or a salt thereof, which is useful as an cholinesterase inhibitor and a cerebral function ameliorating agent.

Abstract: There is provided a cyclic amine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein B means a saturated or unsaturated 5- to 7-membered aza-heterocyclic group which may be substituted; A means a bond or an alkylene or alkenylene group which may be substituted by hydrocarbon residues, oxo, hydroxyimino, and/or hydroxy, means either a single bond or a double bond (provided that when A means a bond, means a single bond); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently mean a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted (provided that both of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not hydrogen atoms) or jointly form a cyclic amino group together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, n is 0, 1 or 2 and p is 1 or 2 or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.The compounds are useful for therapy of cerebral edema, acute symptoms in cerebral apoplexy and protection of brain and nerve cell, or useful as anticholinesterase or as brain function-improving agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to unsaturated carboxylic acid amide derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein ring A stands for an optionally substituted aromatic ring; R.sup.1 stands for a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue or forms an optionally substituted carbocyclic ring with the adjacent group --CH.dbd.C-- together with two carbon atoms constituting the ring A; R.sup.2 stands for a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue or an optionally substituted acyl group; R.sup.3 stands for an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue; and n denotes an integer ranging from 2 to 6, and salts thereof, as well as the production thereof.The compounds of the present invention act on the central nervous system of mammals and has a strong anti-cholinesterase activity, which can be used for the prophylaxis and therapy of, for example, senile dementia, Alzheimer's diseases, Huntington's chorea, et., and are useful as medicines.