Patent number: 8030354
Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful, for example, for treating metabolic disorders in a subject. Such compounds have the general formula I: where the definitions of the variables are provided herein. The present invention also provides compositions that include, and methods for using, the compounds in preparing medicaments and for treating metabolic disorders such as, for example, type II diabetes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 3, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2011
Assignee:
Amgen Inc.
Inventors:
Sean P. Brown, Qiong Cao, Paul John Dransfield, Xiaohui Du, Zice Fu, Jonathan Houze, Xian Yun Jiao, Yong-Jae Kim, Todd J. Kohn, SuJen Lai, An-Rong Li, Daniel Lin, Jiwen Liu, Jian Luo, Julio C. Medina, Jeffrey D. Reagan, Vatee Pattaropong, Margrit Schwarz, Wang Shen, Yongli Su, Gayathri Swaminath, Marc Vimolratana, Yingcai Wang, Yumei Xiong, Li Yang, Ming Yu, Jie Zhang, Liusheng Zhu