Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a method of treating an unstable or overactive urinary bladder by treating the patient with tolterodine or a tolterodine-related compound, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, with a controlled release formulation that maintains a substantially constant serum level of the active moiety or moieties for at least 24 hours. The present invention is further drawn to a formulation for the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical formulation containing tolterodine or a tolterodine-related compound, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, as active ingredient, in which the formulation exhibits a controlled in vitro release of the active ingredient in phosphate buffer at pH 6.8 of not less than about 80% after 18 hours, and after oral administration to a patient is capable of maintaining a substantially constant serum level of the active moiety or moieties for 24 hours. The invention also relates to the use of the pharmaceutical formulation for treating overactive bladder and gastrointestinal disorders.

Abstract: A 3,3-diphenylpropylamine of the formula I, or its physiologically acceptable acid salt thereof: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or methyl, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently represent hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, hydroxy, carbamoyl, sulphamoyl or halogen, and X represents a tertiary amino group of formula II ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently represent a hydroxy substituted or unsubstituted non-aromatic hydrocarbyl group which can join together to form a ring and which together contain at least three carbon atoms, wherein at least one of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 is hydroxy substituted, is useful in treating acetylcholine-mediated disorders such as urinary incontinence.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of general formula (I), wherein R is a group of general formula (II) or (III), where X.sup.1 represents oxygen or sulphur and Y.sup.1 and Z.sup.1 both represent carbon, or X.sup.1 represents oxygen and one of Y.sup.1 and Z.sup.1 represents nitrogen and the other represents carbon, or X.sup.1 represents sulphur, Y.sup.1 represents nitrogen and Z.sup.1 represents carbon; one of X.sup.2, Y.sup.2 and Z.sup.2 represents oxygen or sulphur and the other two both represent carbon or one represents nitrogen and the other represents carbon, and the dotted line in formula (III) represents an optional additional carbon-carbon or carbon-nitrogen bond; A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3 and A.sup.4 each represent carbon or, when one of X.sup.2, Y.sup.2 and Z.sup.2 represents oxygen or sulphur and the other two both represent carbon, one or two of A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3 and A.sup.4 may represent nitrogen and the others carbon; and R.sup.1 to R.sup.5 are as defined in the description.

Abstract: The invention relates to 3,3-diphenylpropylamines of formula (I), wherein R.sup.1 signifies hydrogen or methyl, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently signify hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, hydroxy, carbamoyl, sulphamoyl or halogen, and X represents a tertiary amino group of formula (II), wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 signify non-aromatic hydrocarbyl groups, which may be the same or different and which together contain at least three carbon atoms, and wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may form a ring together with the amine nitrogen, their salts with physiologically acceptable acids and, when the compounds can be in the form of optical isomers, the racemic mixture and the individual enantiomers.

Abstract: The invention relates to 3,3-diphenylpropylamines of formula (I), wherein R1 signifies hydrogen or methyl, R2 and R3 independently signify hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, hydroxy, carbamoyl, sulphamoyl or halogen, and X represents a tertiary amino group of formula (II), wherein R4 and R5 signify non-aromatic hydrocarbyl groups, which may be the same or different and which together contain at least three carbon atoms, and wherein R4 and R5 may form a ring together with the amine nitrogen, their salts with physiologically acceptable acids and, when the compounds can be in the form of optical isomers, the racemic mixture and the individual enantiomers.

Abstract: The invention relates to 3,3-diphenylpropylamines of formula (I), wherein R1 signifies hydrogen or methyl, R2 and R3 independently signify hydrogen, methyl, methoxy, hydroxy, carbamoyl, sulphamoyl or halogen, and X represents a tertiary amino group of formula (II), wherein R4 and R5 signify non-aromatic hydrocarbyl groups, which may be the same or different and which together contain at least three carbon atoms, and wherein R4 and R5 may form a ring together with the amine nitrogen, their salts with physiologically acceptable acids and, when the compounds can be in the form of optical isomers, the racemic mixture and the individual enantiomers.