Abstract: This invention relates to a method of treating a disease state selected from: Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, mental retardation, memory defects, memory loss, pancreatic cancer, bone resorption disease, osteoporosis, sickle cell anemia, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, depression, and subsets of depression including: alcoholism, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, chronic pain, obesity, senile dementia, migraine, bulimia, anorexia, social phobia, pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), adolescent depression, trichotillomania, dysthymia and substance abuse, in a mammal in need thereof, including a human, which comprises administering to such mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a selected substituted thiazol compound. The invention also relates to a method of enhancing cognition in a mammal in need thereof which comprises administering to such mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a selected substituted thiazol compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the use of LXR agonists in the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the use of IL-18, also known as interferon-?-inducing factor (IGIF), in the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases.

Abstract: A pyridine derivative of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A is group of the following formulae: ##STR2## (R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each H, or protected or unprotected OH, R.sup.31, R.sup.41 and R.sup.42 are protected or unprotected hydroxymethyl, R.sup.32 is H, lower alkyl, or protected or unprotected hydroxymethyl, R.sup.33 is substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, and the dotted line means the presence or absence of a double bond), R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are H, or protected or unprotected amino, or both combine together with the adjacent nitrogen to form substituted or unsubstituted heterocycle, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, these compounds showing excellent bronchoconstriction inhibitory activity and/or anti-inflammatory activity of airway, and being useful in the prophylaxis or treatment of asthma.

Abstract: Naphthalene derivative of the formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen atom, hydroxy group, cyclo-lower alkyloxy group, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkoxy group, or both combine each other to form lower alkylenedioxy group, R.sup.3 is substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing 6-membered heterocyclic group, and groups of the formulae: --OR.sup.4 and --OR.sup.5 are the same or different and are protected or unprotected hydroxy group, processes for preparing thereof, and synthetic intermediates therefor, these compounds have excellent bronchodilating activity, and are useful in the prophylaxis and treatment of asthma.