Abstract: ?- and ?-amino acid hydroxyethylamino sulfonamide compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: Certain Alpha- and Beta-amino acid hydroxyethylamino sulfamic acid derivatives represented by the following formula are useful as retroviral protease inhibitors:

Abstract: Methods for preparing indoles that are useful COX-2 inhibitors and intermediates useful in such methods are described.

Abstract: Certain substituted indoles that are modulators of one or more or of CRTH2, COX-2 AND FAAH are described. The compounds are useful for treatment of pain and/or inflammation as well as other disorders.

Abstract: 4-Biarylyl-1-phenylazetidin-2-ones useful for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia are disclosed. The compounds are of the general formula in which represents an aryl or heteroaryl residue; Ar represents an aryl residue; U is a two to six atom chain; and the R's represent substituents.

Abstract: The invention includes selected novel optically active ?-amino ketones which either are themselves useful or are intermediates for the preparation of known ketomethylene pseudopeptides useful as antibiotics, antibiotic enhancers, or enzyme inhibitors. Further, the present invention provides a method for dehydrogenation/asymmetrical hydrogenation to obtain essentially pure antipodes of ketomethylene pseudopeptides having two chiral centers.

Abstract: The subject invention concerns methods and compounds that have utility in the treatment of a condition associated with cyclooxygenase-2 mediated disorders. Compounds of particular interest are benzopyrans and their analogs defined by formula 1 Wherein Z, X, R1, R 2, R3, and R4 are as described in the specification.

Abstract: A class of pyrazolyl benzenesulfonamide compounds is described for use in treating inflammation and inflammation-related disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cyclic sulfone moiety-containing hydroxyethylamine protease inhibitor compounds and pharmaceutical or method of use therefor, particularly as an inhibitor of HIV protease.

Abstract: This invention is directed to aromatic sulfone hydroxamic acids (including hydroxamates) and salts thereof that, inter alia, inhibit matrix metalloproteinase (also known as “matrix metalloprotease” or “MMP”) activity and/or aggrecanase activity. This invention also is directed to a prevention or treatment method that comprises administering such a compound or salt in an MMP-inhibiting and/or aggrecanase-inhibiting effective amount to an animal, particularly a mammal having (or disposed to having) a pathological condition associated with MMP and/or aggrecanase activity.

Abstract: A class of benzopyran, derivatives is described for use in treating cyclooxygenase-2 mediated disorders. Compounds of particular interest are defined by Formula I? wherein X, A1, A2, A3, A4, R, R?, R1 and R2 are as described in the specification.

Abstract: The invention features compounds that inhibit COX-2 and/or FAAH. The COX-2 inhibitors are selective COX-2 inhibitors in that they are selective for COX-2 compared to COX-1. Certain of the FAAH inhibitors are selective for FAAH relative to COX-2. Certain of the COX-2 inhibitors, in addition for being selective for COX-2 relative to COX-1, are selective for COX-2 relative to FAAH.

Abstract: Prodrugs of COX-2 inhibitors are described as being useful in treating inflammation and inflammation-related disorders.

Abstract: A class of dihydrobenzopyrans, dihydrobenzothiopyrans, tetrahydroquinolines, tetrahydronaphthalenes, and analogs thereof, is described for use in treating cyclooxygenase-2 mediated disorders. Compounds of particular interest are defined by Formula (I) wherein X, A1, A2, A3, A4, R, R?, R1 and R2 are as described in the specification.

Abstract: This invention is directed generally to proteinase (also known as “protease”) inhibitors, and, more particularly, to piperidinyl- and piperazinyl-sulfonylmethyl hydroxamic acids that, inter alia, inhibit matrix metalloproteinase (also known as “matrix metalloprotease” or “MMP”) activity and/or aggrecanase activity. Such hydroxamic acids generally correspond in structure to the following formula: (wherein A1, A2, Y, E1, E2, E3, and Rx are as defined in this specification), and further include salts of such compounds. This invention also is directed to compositions of such hydroxamic acids, intermediates for the syntheses of such hydroxamic acids, methods for making such hydroxamic acids, and methods for treating conditions (particularly pathological conditions) associated with MMP activity and/or aggrecanase activity.

Abstract: N-heterocyclic moiety containing hydroxyethylamine compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: Succinoylamino hydroxyethylamino sulfonamide compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: The invention features certain compounds useful in the treatment of memory disorders, i.e., they reduce or delay memory loss or they enhance memory retention. Because certain of the compounds do not substantially inhibit either COX-1 or COX-2 at therapeutically relevant doses, these compounds are far less likely to cause gastrointestinal ulceration than is indomethacin, which is known to inhibit both COX-1 and COX-2. Certain of the compounds inhibit the activity of DAO at therapeutically relevant doses. Among the memory disorders that can be treated are AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI; a common precursor to AD), and memory loss or cognitive impairment associated with vascular dementias, amnesia, dementia, AIDS dementia, Huntington's Disease, hydrocephalus, depression, Pick's Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome, electroconvulsive therapy, or Parkinson's Disease.

Abstract: A class of dihydrobenzopyrans, dihydrobenzothiopyrans, tetrahydroquinolines, tetrahydronaphthalenes, and analogs thereof, is described for use in treating cyclooxygenase-2 mediated disorders.

Abstract: A class of dihydrobenzopyrans, dihydrobenzothiopyrans, tetrahydroquinolines, tetraydronaphthalenes, and analogs thereof, is described for use in treating cyclooxygenase-2 mediated disorders. Compounds of particular interest are defined by Formula (I) wherein X, A1, A2, A3, A4, R, R″, R1 and R2 are as described in the specification.