Abstract: A polymeric encapsulated fragrance is disclosed which is suitable for use in personal care and cleaning products. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the fragrance is encapsulated by a first polymer material to form a fragrance encapsulated polymer, the polymer encapsulated shell is then coated with a mixture of cationic polymers, in a preferred embodiment the coating polymers are a reaction product of polyamines and (chloromethyl) oxirane or (bromomethyl) oxirane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula wherein R represents a methyl or an ethyl group, in the form of any one of its isomers or of a mixture thereof. The invention relates also to the use of such a compound as a perfuming ingredient capable of imparting a odorant note of the rose type. Moreover, the invention concern also the perfumed article or perfuming composition containing a compound according to the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of cyclohexyloxyacetic alkyl esters by hydrogenation of phenoxyacetic alkyl esters and to the use of cyclohexyloxyacetic alkyl esters as fragrances.

Abstract: A fragrance composition having high fragrance properties such as fragrance diffusivity and long-lasting property obtained without changing the fragrance note of the fragrance composition which is useful in various fragrance providing products such as cosmetics, toiletry products, bath compositions and pharmaceuticals having satisfactory fragrance properties such as fragrance diffusivity and long-lasting property. The fragrance composition contains 0.1 to 90% by weight of a glyceryl ether derivative represented by the following general formula (I), such as 2-ethylhexyloxypropanediol as a fixative or fragrance note-improving agent. The fragrance-providing product contains 0.01 to 50% by weight of the fragrance composition in the final product composition. General formula (I) is: wherein R1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 4 to 12 carbon atoms which may have a branched chain or an aromatic hydrocarbon group, which may have a substituent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of perfumery, and more precisely to a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 represents an C2 to C4 unsaturated hydrocarbon radical. The present invention concerns also the use of said compound in the perfumery industry as well as the compositions or articles associated with said compound.

Abstract: This invention provides supplemented and unsupplemented tissue sealants as well as methods for their production and use thereof. Disclosed are tissue sealants supplemented with at least one antimicrobial composition. The composition may be further supplemented with, for example, one or more antibodies, analgesics, anticoagulants, antiproliferatives, anti-inflammatory compounds, cytokines, cytotoxins, drugs, growth factors, interferons, hormones, lipids, demineralized bone or bone morphogenetic proteins, cartilage inducing factors, oligonucleotides polymers, polysaccharides, polypeptides, protease inhibitors, vasoconstrictors or vasodilators, vitamins, minerals, stabilizers and the like.

Abstract: Methods to control, or manipulate, melanocyte and keratinocyte cell death are disclosed. In particular, a method of preventing epidermal melanocyte cell loss due to injury in a vertebrate is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method of inducing hair growth in a vertebrate, a method of inducing hair color in a vertebrate, a method of inducing skin color in a vertebrate, a method of treating baldness in an individual, and a method of treating alopecia areata in an individual.

Abstract: Disclosed are 1) amino acid sequence data, structural features, homologies and various other data characterizing morphogenic proteins, 2) methods of producing these proteins from natural and recombinant sources and from synthetic constructs, 3) morphogenic devices comprising these morphogenic proteins and a suitably modified tissue-specific matrix, and 4) methods of inducing non-chondrogenic tissue growth in a mammal.

Abstract: A fusion protein comprising a translocating moiety and a toxic moiety wherein the translocating moiety comprises a plant protein that is capable of acting as a carrier to translocate the toxic moiety across the gut wall of at least one plant pathogen, wherein the toxic moiety is adapted to be effective as a toxic agent following translocation; composition comprising the protein, methods for preparation thereof; polynucleotide encoding the fusion protein, vector comprising the polynucleotide, host cell and transgenic plant cell or plant that is resistant to pathogen, expressing the fusion protein, and uses thereof in combatting plant pathogens and in insect control.

Abstract: Method for administering streptolysin O for treatment of various conditions including connective tissue disorders, reproductive fibroses and conditions mediated by the CD44 receptor. The invention also provides methods for protecting nerve cells from the effects of neurotoxic agents by the administration of streptolysin O.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions that include insulin, an insulin drug-oligomer conjugate, a fatty acid component, and a bile salt component or a bile salt component without a fatty acid component are described. The insulin drug is covalently coupled to an oligomeric moiety. The fatty acid component and the bile salt component, when together, can be present in a weight-to-weight ratio of between 1:15 and 15:1. Methods of treating an insulin deficiency in a subject in need of such treatment using such pharmaceutical compositions are also provided, as are methods of providing such pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the fields of immunology and molecular biology, and particularly to a method for treating hematopoietic disorders. The invention provides a method to treat a deficiency of one or more types of blood cells in a mammal, which includes administering an effective amount of TISF or of a compound that stimulates CD4+ cells like TISF does. In one embodiment, TISF that originates from a mammalian species is administered to a mammalian subject diagnosed as having a deficiency in one or more types of blood cells.

Abstract: Cyclic peptides and peptidomimetics are provided that bind to and/or modulate activities associated with Trk receptors, including processes associated with the growth and repair of the central nervous system (e.g., neuronal growth and survival, axonal growth, neurite outgrowth and synaptic plasticity). Cyclic peptides and peptidomimetics are also provided that block or reduce the effect of other factors that inhibit growth and/or repair of the central nervous system. Pharmaceutical compositions and other formulations comprising these compounds are provided. In addition, the invention provides methods for using the cyclic peptides and peptidomimetics to modulate Trk mediated activities, including processes such as neuronal growth, survival and recover, axonal growth, neurite outgrowth, and synaptic plasticity. Further, the invention provides methods for promoting central nervous system (CNS) neuron growth by administering a p75 receptor binding agent.

Abstract: A method for reducing intraocular pressure and increasing outflow facility from an eye of a subject having glaucoma includes the step of providing in the trabecular meshwork of the eye an amount of caldesmon effective to reduce intraocular pressure and increase outflow facility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an NST500 compound of general formula (I): comprising the following components: X1—X2—{(X3)a/X4/X5}—X6, wherein: X1 stands for a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid residue comprising 6–20 carbon atoms; or a cysteine residue bound through a thioether bond to a prenyl group comprising 5–20 carbon atoms; said residue being linked to the adjacent component of the compound through an amide bond; X2 is 0; X3 comprises 1–6 amino acids, of which 1–6 are positively charged and 0–2 are negatively charged, the other amino acid residues being polar uncharged amino acids; X4 comprises 1–6 amino acids, of which 1–2 are aromatic amino acids, the other amino acids being selected among polar uncharged amino acids and hydrophobic aliphatic amino acids; X5 comprises 6–8 amino acids, of which 4–6 are positively charged and 0–2 are negatively charged, the other amino acid residues being polar uncharged amino acids, wherein the amino acids form a cyclic structure; X6 is a compound of general formu

Abstract: Compositions of plant carbohydrates for dietary supplements and nutritional support for promotion and maintenance of good health. Defined nutritionally effective amounts of one to eleven essential saccharides, glyconutrients, are used in various inventive compositions as dietary supplements. The dietary composition herein can include phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, herbal extracts, and other non-toxic nutrients. The glyconutritional dietary supplement herein provides essential saccharides which are the building blocks of glycoproteins. These compositions, when administered orally or topically, have been found to improve the well being of mammals suffering from a variety of disorders.

Abstract: A formulation for enteral administration to a patient is disclosed.

Abstract: Methods of eliciting an immune response in a subject by administering one or more large genomic DNA fragments are provided. Also provided are methods of identifying sequences encoding antigenic polypeptides. Also provided are vaccine compositions comprising one or more large genomic DNA fragments.

Abstract: Compositions and a method are provided for the treatment of prostate and other endocrine tumors in mammals, including humans, by administration of an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) which is complementary to a portion of the gene encoding IGFBP-2. Using the Shionogi tumor model in vitro and in vivo, the administration of such an ODN was shown to reduce proliferation of tumor cells, and also to delay the progression to androgen independence. Thus, treatment of prostate and other hormone-regulated cancer in mammals, including humans, and delay of the progression of prostate tumors to androgen independence is accomplished by administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide which is complementary to a portion of the nucleic acid sequence encoding IGFBP-2 and which reduces the amount of IGFBP-2 in the treated cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating cancer using p38/JTV-1 and a method for screening pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer. More particularly, this invention relates to the method for treating cancer, which comprises administering the effective amount of p38/JTV-1 protein or a nucleic acid encoding for said protein to the patient and the method for screening a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer characterized by selecting a substance having an effect on the increase of the activity of the p38/JTV-1 protein and the intracellular level thereof.

Abstract: Methods are described for the identification and preparation of nucleic acid ligand solutions to basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). Included in the invention are nucleic acid ligands to bFGF which are inhibitors of bFGF and 2?-amino-modified RNA ligands to bFGF.

Abstract: The present invention provides prophylactic and therapeutic methods of treating the ductal epithelium of an exocrine gland, in particular a mammary gland, for disease, in particular cancer. The methods comprise contacting the ductal epithelium of the exocrine gland with an epithelium-destroying gent, preferably by ductal cannulation, so as to realize a prophylactic or therapeutic effect.

Abstract: Methods of providing pain relief by administering a water-soluble derivative of spicamycin. Methods of using pain mediation agents are also provided.

Abstract: A complex, water soluble polysaccharide fraction having potent immunostimulatory activity isolated from Aloe vera. The polysaccharide fraction has an apparent molecular weight above 2 million daltons. Its major glycosyl components are glucose, galactose, mannose and arabinose. The invention further includes pharmaceutical compositions containing the instant polysaccharide fraction, optionally in combination with acceptable pharmaceutical carriers and/or excipents. These pharmaceutical compositions may be used to provide immunostimulation to an individual in need of such treatment by administering to such an individual an effective amount of the composition. The polysaccharide fraction is also useful as a component of dietary supplements and as a standardization component of commercial Aloe products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polysaccharide conjugates that comprise: a polysaccharide that binds to surface-receptors present on Antigen Presenting Cells, conjugated to one or more compounds having stable carbonyl groups covalently attached, either directly or via a bifunctional linker. The conjugates are useful as immuno-stimulants and adjuvants.

Abstract: Methods of using 7?,11?-dimethyl-17?-hydroxyestra-4,14-dien-3-one (III) and 17 esters thereof for various hormonal therapies, oral and parenteral dosage forms comprising these actives, and processes for their preparation.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula and use of the compounds as medicaments.

Abstract: Compounds of structural formula (I) are disclosed as useful for modulating the androgen receptor (AR) in a tissue selective manner in a patient in need of such modulation, and in particular for antagonizing AR in the prostate of a male patient or in the uterus of a female patient and agonizing AR in bone and/or muscle tissue. These compounds are useful in the treating conditions caused by androgen deficiency or which can be ameliorated by androgen administration, including: osteoporosis, periodontal disease, bone fracture, bone damage following bone reconstructive surgery, sarcopenia, frailty, aging skin, male hypogonadism, female sexual dysfunction, post-menopausal symptoms in women, atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia, aplastic anemia and other hematopoietic disorders, pancreatic cancer, renal cancer, prostate cancer, arthritis and joint repair, alone or in combination with other active agents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to diazepine derivatives of formula (I) wherein R represents hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl; R1 represents hydrogen or C1-4 alkyl; R2 represents trifluoromethyl, C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, trifluoromethoxy or halogen; R3 represents halogen or C1-4 alkyl; R4 represents hydrogen, halogen, C1-4 alkyl or COR6; R5 represents hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl or R5 together within the R1 represents C3-7 cycloalkyl; R6 represents hydroxy, amino, methylamino, dimethylamino, 5 membered heteroaryl group containing 1 to 3 heteroatoms selected independently from oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen or a 6 membered heteroaryl group containing 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms; m or n are independently zero or an integer from 1 to 3; X and Y are independently NR7 or methylene; provided that when X is NR7, Y is methylene and when X is methylene, Y is NR7; R7 represents hydrogen, C1-4 alkyl or C3-7 cycloalkyl; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof; to process for their preparation and their use in the treatm

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds as inhibitors of cyclin dependent kinases, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the CDKs using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: (where variables R1, R2, R3, R6, R7, G, J, W, X and Y are as defined herein) useful as antagonists of CGRP receptors and useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the CGRP is involved, such as headache, migraine and cluster headache. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which CGRP is involved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound which is represented by the following general formula and has type 4 phosphodiesterase inhibitory action, and uses and an intermediate compound thereof. (wherein R1, R2: hydrogen, a halogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkoxy, or the like, R3, R4: hydrogen, a (substituted) lower alkyl, a halogen, or the like, R5: hydrogen, a lower alkyl, a lower alkoxycarbonyl, or the like, and n: 0 or 1).

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound consisting of a moiety and a group chemically bonded to said moiety, wherein said moiety contains a compound having low activity following oral administration or its parent scaffold and said group has the following general formula (1): in which R1 represents a hydrogen atom, etc., R2 represents a C1–C7 halogenoalkyl group, etc., m represents an integer of 2 to 14, and n represents an integer of 2 to 7, or enantiomers of the compound, or hydrates or pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compound or enantiomers thereof. The above compound is advantageous in pharmaceutical use because the group of general formula (1) allows compounds such as anti-estrogenic ones to show a significantly increased activity following oral administration when attached to the parent scaffolds of the compounds.

Abstract: This invention relates to potent potassium channel blocker compounds of Formula I or a formulation thereof for the treatment of glaucoma and other conditions which leads to elevated intraoccular pressure in the eye of a patient. This invention also relates to the use of such compounds to provide a neuroprotective effect to the eye of mammalian species, particularly humans.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting tumor growth is provided, comprising administering an effective dose of a compound of the formula wherein, independently at each occurrence, w is C or N, v and x are N with H substitution as needed to fulfill open valence sites; y and z are selected from N and C, with H substitution as needed to fulfill open valence sites, with the proviso that each of w, v, x, y and z is not simultaneously C; the ring formed from v, w, x, y and z may be saturated or unsaturated; and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are selected from hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, heteroalkyl, and heteroaryl; wherein any adjacent two of R1, R2, R3 and R4 may join together to form a 5, 6 or 7-membered carbocyclic ring or a 5, 6 or 7-membered heterocyclic ring containing at least one atom selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur.

Abstract: The invention concerns novel cdc25 phosphatase inhibitors, and in particular cdc25-C, which correspond to the general formula (I) wherein: A represents a carbocyclic aryl radical optionally substituted 1 to 3 times by one or more radicals independently selected among a halogen atom and an alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, alkylthio or NR1R2 radical wherein R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical or R1 and R2 form together with the nitrogen atom a heterocycle of 4 to 7 members comprising 1 to 2 heteroatoms, the members required to complete the heterocycle being selected independently among the CR3R4—, —O—, —S and NR5-radicals, R3 and R4 representing independently each time they are involved a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, amino, alkylamino or dialkylamino radical, and R5 representing independently each time it is involved a hydrogen atom or an alkyl radical, or A represents a phenyl radical substituted by a phenyl radical optionally substituted 1 to 3 times by one or more radicals selected

Abstract: A compound of formula: or an isomer, salt, solvate, chemically protected form, or prodrug thereof, wherein A and B together represent an optionally substituted, fused aromatic ring; RL is a C5-7 aryl group substituted in the meta position by the group R2, and optionally further substituted; wherein R2 is selected from: and its use as a pharmaceutical, in particular for the treatment of diseases ameliorated by inhibiting the activity of PARP.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted dihydroquinazolines and to processes for their preparation and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular for use as antiviral agents, in particular against cytomegalo viruses.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X is CH or N, Y is C or S, Z is —(CRaRb)r— or —SO2—, A is —NR3— or —O—, R2 is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl, n is 1 or 2, m is 1 when Y is C and m is 2 when Y is S, and p, q, r, R1, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, Ra and Rb are as defined herein. The compounds are useful in the treatment of 5-HT6 and 5-HT2A mediated diseases.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds of the formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, wherein, n, X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. The subject compounds are useful for treatment of 5-HT6 receptor antagonist-mediated diseases. Also provides are methods for preparing, compositions comprising, and methods for using the subject compounds.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): wherein: R2 is H or an optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl group; Y is either —(CH2)n—X—, where n is 1 or 2 and X is O, S, S(?O), S(?O)2, or NRN1, where RN1 is selected from H or optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl, or Y is —C(?O)NRN2—, where RN2 is selected from H, and optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl or C5-20 aryl; R3 is an optionally substituted C6 aryl group linked to a further optionally substituted C6 aryl group, wherein if both C6 aryl groups are benzene rings, there may be an oxygen bridge between the two rings, bound adjacent the link on both rings; A is a single bond or a C1-3 alkylene group; and R5 is either: (i) carboxy; (ii) a group of formula (II): or (iii) a group of formula (III): ?wherein R is optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl, C5-20 aryl or NRN3RN4, where RN3 and RN4 are independently selected from optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl; (iv) tetrazol-5-yl.

Abstract: This invention provides phenyl-substituted pyrimidopyrimidines, dihydropyrimido-pyrimidines, pyridopyrimidines, naphthyridines, and pyridopyrazines of the general formula: that inhibit cyclin-dependent kinase and tyrosine kinase enzymes, methods and intermediate compounds for their synthesis, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods for their use in treating, inhibiting or preventing maladies associated with cell proliferative disorders, including angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, restenosis, and cancer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bicyclic heterocycles of general formula wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, X and n are defined as in claim 1, the tautomers, the stereoisomers, the mixtures thereof and the salts thereof, particularly the physiologically acceptable salts thereof with inorganic or organic acids which have valuable pharmacological properties, particularly an inhibiting effect on the signal transduction mediated by tyrosine kinases, their use in treating diseases, particularly tumoral diseases, as well as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract and the preparation thereof.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds as inhibitors of cyclin dependent kinases, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the CDKs using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.

Abstract: 1. The present invention provides compositions and methods for reversibly inhibiting S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) hydrolase. The compounds of the present invention can be used as an anti-hemorrhagic viral infection agent, an immunosuppressant, a homocysteine lowering agent, or an anti-neoplasm agent. The compositions and methods of the present invention can be used for the prevention and treatment of hemorrhagic virus infection, autoimmune diseases, autograft rejection, neoplasm, hyperhomocysteineuria, cardiovascular disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis or diabetes.

Abstract: This invention comprises the novel compounds of formula (I) wherein r, t, Y1—Y2, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 have defined meanings, having farnesyl transferase inhibiting activity; their preparation, compositions containing them and their use as a medicine.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful in the treatment of cytokine mediated diseases such as arthritis and in the treatment and/or prevention of protozoal diseases such as coccidiosis

Abstract: Methods for the treatment of psychotic or intellectual impairment disorders with compounds of formula I, wherein A, R and R1 are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the Formula I: wherein R1 is alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloallkylalkyl, or —CH2-alkenyl, X1 is O, NH, N(alkyl), S or —C(?O), Z is N or CH; and R2 and R3 are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising same, and methods for their use.

Abstract: The invention provides 3(R)-(2-hydroxy-2,2-dithien-2-ylacetoxy)-1-(3-phenoxypropyl)-1-azoniabicyclo[2.2.2]octane in salt form, pharmaceutical compositions comprising it, and methods of using it for treatment of respiratory disorders, in association with steroids.