Abstract: The use or methods of use of extracts comprising one or more special clerodane compounds against inflammatory (including allergic) diseases or conditions, as well as novel compounds of this type, said clerodane derivatives for use against inflammatory (including allergic) diseases or conditions, pharmaceutical formulations comprising them especially for use against inflammatory disease or conditions, and related embodiments; said extract and/or compound(s) for use in the treatment or in the preparation of a medicament (including a nutraceutical) for the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of said disease or condition, as well as their preparation; pharmaceutical or nutraceutical formulations comprising said extract and/or natural compound(s) which are useful in said prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment, and related embodiments.

Abstract: The present invention primarily relates to the use of certain extract formulations of Rhodamnia cinerea as defined herein as alpha-amylase inhibitors and as actives for the therapeutic (including prophylactic) treatment of a carbohydrate metabolic disorder or of a disease attendant on hyperglycemia, preferably selected from the group consisting of prediabetes, obesity, hyperlipemia, arteriosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, atherosclerosis, diabetes, postprandial hyperglycemia, and metabolic syndrome. The present invention also relates to corresponding methods. The invention further relates to specific extract formulations obtainable from Rhodamnia cinerea and to compositions, in particular orally consumable compositions, comprising an effective amount of such an extract formulation.

Abstract: The use or methods of use of extracts comprising one or more special clerodane compounds against inflammatory (including allergic) diseases or conditions, as well as novel compounds of this type, said clerodane derivatives for use against inflammatory (including allergic) diseases or conditions, pharmaceutical formulations comprising them especially for use against inflammatory disease or conditions, and related embodiments; said extract and/or compound(s) for use in the treatment or in the preparation of a medicament (including a nutraceutical) for the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of said disease or condition, as well as their preparation; pharmaceutical or nutraceutical formulations comprising said extract and/or natural compound(s) which are useful in said prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment, and related embodiments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted heterocycles, processes for their preparation, and their use in medicaments, especially for the treatment of inflammatory disease, i.e. asthma, or cancer.

Abstract: This invention relates to crystallised human neutrophil elastase and the use of its three-dimensional structure to design modulators for human neutrophil elastase.

Abstract: The use of a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof, where the symbols have the meanings given in the description, for the control of phytopathogenic mircroorganisms of harmful animals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted heterocycles, processes for their preparation, and their use in medicaments, especially for the treatment of inflammatory disease, i.e. asthma, or cancer.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel benzofuran derivatives, to processes for preparing them and to their uses in medicaments.

Abstract: Reagents which regulate human transient receptor potential channel and reagents which bind to human transient receptor potential channel gene products can play a role in preventing, ameliorating, or correcting dysfunctions or diseases including, but not limited to, urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, benign prostatic hyperplasia, lower urinary tract syndromes, and CNS disorders.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel benzofuran derivatives, to processes for preparing them and to their uses in medicaments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and its use for the transformation of vectors, host organisms and plants and for the breeding of plants with a high resistance to herbicides.