Abstract: The invention relates to the therapeutic use of oligonucleotides as immunostimulatory agents in immunotherapy applications. More particularly, the invention provides immunomers for use in methods for generating an immune response or for treating a patient in need of immunostimulation. The immunomers of the invention comprise at least two oligonucleotides linked at their 3? ends, internucleoside linkages or functionalized nucleobase or sugar to a non-nucleotidic linker, at least one of the oligonucleotides being an immunostimulatory oligonucleotide and having an accessible 5? end.

Abstract: The invention identifies a novel protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTPMT1. The complete nucleic acid and amino acid sequence encoding PTPMT1 is provided. Methods are provided for preventing and/or treating type II diabetes by regulating PTPMT1 levels, which in turn regulates insulin levels.

Abstract: A method for the identification of genes that are essential for the maintenance of specific cell phenotypes is disclosed. The method includes the initial step of identifying a cell type with a phenotype of interest. Gene inactivation is performed on an aliquot of cells of the cell type of interest. Selection is then performed to an aliquot of the cell culture to which gene inactivation has been applied. Cells which continue to maintain the phenotype following gene inactivation have not had the gene of interest inactivated whereas cells in which genes necessary for maintaining the phenotype have been inactivated have been lost. Utilizing subtraction analysis between treated and untreated aliquots the gene in the cells which has been inactivated that affects the phenotype of interest is identified. Genes that are identified by the method are also disclosed as well as antibodies directed against the gene product of the identified genes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of the Huntingtin gene (HD gene), comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less than 25 nucleotides in length and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of the HD gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by the expression of the HD gene, or a mutant form thereof, using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of the huntingtin gene in a cell.

Abstract: A CpG DNA adjuvant in avian vaccines is disclosed, which includes an immunostimulatory oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) having a sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2. The CpG DNA adjuvant in avian vaccines is advantageous to carry out large-scale production, specifically enhance avian innate and adaptive immune responses, and the CpG DNA adjuvant is hardly to be digested by DNase due to its particular structures.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of treating pain. The method comprises administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of a P2X receptor antagonist. The methods of the present invention are useful in reducing pain, such as traumatic pain, neuropathic pain, organ pain and/or pain associated with diseases. The P2X receptor antagonists useful for this invention are non-nucleotide compounds of general Formula I. Compounds of Formula I can be used alone to treat pain. Compounds of Formula I can also be used in conjunction with other therapeutic agents or adjunctive therapies commonly used to treat pain, thus enhancing the therapeutic effect of pain reduction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drug-eluting stent, wherein the stent is coated with one or more non-nucleotide P2Y12 receptor antagonist compounds or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or hydrate thereof. When the stent is placed in a narrowed or damaged arterial vessel, a therapeutically effective amount of the P2Y12 receptor antagonist compound is eluted continuously from the stent to the local environment of the stent. The P2Y12 receptor antagonist compound-eluting stents are useful in preventing thrombosis and restenosis, and are effective in inhibiting the contraction of vascular smooth muscle cells, inhibiting cell proliferation, and reducing inflammation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a complex that includes mequitazine, a cyclodextrin, and an interaction agent wherein the rate of solubilization in water of complexed mequitazine, measured for a 2 g/l mixture of mequitazine in water at 35° C. after 15 minutes of stirring, is greater than 50% at pH 9. The present invention also relates to a method of preparing the aforementioned complex and a pharmaceutical composition of which the complex is a part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphonate, nucleoside phosphonate or nucleoside phosphate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use in treating a variety of medical disorders, in particular viral infections, cancers and the like.

Abstract: A computer readable medium holding data of a molecular model of a ligand-gated ion channel receptor and/or a computer system for modeling said receptor are provided by the instant invention. The molecular model can be used to design novel compounds having activity as non-competitive inhibitors of the ion channel. A preferred embodiment of the invention relates to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Compounds having activity as non-competitive inhibitors of ligand-gated ion channel receptors and methods for inhibiting the receptor and treating diseases or disorders mediated by function of the receptor are also disclosed.

Abstract: Acyloxyalkyl carbamate prodrugs of 3-aminopropylphosphinic acid and analogs thereof, methods of making acyloxyalkyl carbamate prodrugs of 3-aminopropylphosphinic acid and analogs thereof, methods of using acyloxyalkyl carbamate prodrugs of 3-aminopropylphosphinic acid and analogs thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising acyloxyalkyl carbamate prodrugs 3-aminopropylphosphinic acid and analogs thereof for treating diseases or disorders such as mild cognitive impairment, cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease, depression, anxiety, and epilepsy are disclosed. Acyloxyalkyl carbamate prodrugs of 3-aminopropylphosphinic acid and analogs thereof, which are suitable for oral administration and sustained release oral dosage forms are also disclosed.

Abstract: A microdose of at least one active principle is homogeneously formulated as an ointment using a container with perforations having a size and shape that permit diffusion of the active principle(s) and petroleum jelly through the perforations, by: (a) weighing the at least one active principle in a container lined with a petroleum jelly; (b) encapsulating the active principle with additional petroleum jelly; (c) introducing the container with the active principle(s) and the petroleum jelly into a mixer, where the mixer contains at least one excipient in a heated liquid state; and (d) immersing the container within the at least one excipient in a heated liquid state, thereby melting the petroleum jelly, which causes diffusion of the active principal(s) and the melted petroleum jelly and microdoses the active principle(s) in the excipients.

Abstract: A method of achieving contraception in a woman which comprises administering orally to said woman an estroprogestative composition comprising nomegestrol acetate and an estrogen is provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in therapy. Prefereably, the compound may be used for treating a patient suffering from leukaemia, cancer or other proliferative disorder. A further embodiment relates to the use of a compound of formula (I) in an assay for detecting the phosphorylation and acetylation state of cellular substrates. The present invention also relates to novel compounds of formula (Ia).

Abstract: Novel estrogenic compounds of Formula I are provided. wherein the bond represented by the wavy line may be a single or double bond such that when the wavy line is a single bond, R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, sulfate and glucoronate or other esters, and when the wavy line is a double bond, R1 does not exist; R2 is lower alkyl; R3 may be selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, sulfate, or glucuronide or other esters; and R4 through R13 may independently be selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, ketone, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen, and carbonyl groups and R14 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, sulfate and glucoronide and other esters. When R1 is hydroxy, the hydroxy or ester substituent may have either an ? or a ? orientation. Compositions of matter including compounds of the present invention are also provided as are methods of treating mammals in need of treatment using compounds of the present invention.

Abstract: Agents useful for the treatment of various metabolic disorders, such as insulin resistance syndrome, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver disease, cachexia, obesity, atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to metal-phthalocyanines of general formula (I) to the corresponding conjugates, the processes for their preparation and use in the photodynamic therapy of microbial infections (viral, bacterial and mycotic), tumor, pre-cancerous and proliferative pathologies and/or in the diagnosis, as well as for blood and blood derivatives sterilization.

Abstract: Compounds of formula I wherein n, m, p, q, y, R1 R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined herein and their pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use are disclosed as useful for treating artherosclerosis and its sequelae.

Abstract: A method for treating severe heart failure, comprising administering to a patient an effective amount of a benzazepine compound (1): wherein R1 is H or halogen, R2 is OH, or —NR5R6 (R5 and R6 are H or lower alkyl, R3 is H, halogen, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy, R4 is halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy, or a salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the benzazepine compound (1) or a salt thereof and use of the compound (1) or a salt thereof for preparing a medicament for treatment of severe heart failure.

Abstract: The invention provides novel kinase inhibitors that are useful as therapeutic agents for example in the treatment malignancies where the compounds have the general formula I wherein A, X, Y, Z, Ra, Rb, Rc, R1, R2, R3 and m are defined herein.

Abstract: The invention is directed to compounds of Formula (I) described herein useful as CETP inhibitors, compositions containing them, and methods of using them.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to azatriocyclic containing pharmaceutical agents, and in particular, to azatricyclic metalloprotease inhibiting compounds. More particularly, the present invention provides a new class of azatricyclic MMP-3, MMP-8 and/or MMP-13 inhibiting compounds, that exhibit an increased potency and selectivity in relation to currently known MMP-13, MMP-8 and MMP-3 inhibitors.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) or salts thereof, wherein A, and R1 to R5 are as defined in the specification, are DGAT-1 inhibitors and are thereby useful in the treatment of, for example, obesity. Processes to make compounds of formula (I) are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to morpholinyl, and pyrrolidinyl analogs, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use as antagonists of urotensin II.

Abstract: The present invention provides low molecular weight compounds useful as cytokine inhibitors, and compositions thereof. In particular, compounds of the invention are useful as anti-inflammatory agents. There are further provided methods for the preparation of such agents and their use in preventing or treating conditions mediated by cytokines such as arthritis.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel inhibitors of kinases, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. The inhibitors are substituted imidazo[1,2b]pyridazines.

Abstract: A novel method for immunosuppressive in a mammal suffering from an immune disease, including administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a heterocyclic compound represented by the general formula (I) (wherein X or other variables are as defined in the specification) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is disclosed. A novel heterocyclic compound represented by the general formula (II) (wherein X or other variables are as defined in the specification) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is also disclosed.

Abstract: Fused pyrimidines of formula (I): wherein R1-R3, A and n have any of the values described in the specification; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, have activity as inhibitors of PI3K and may thus be used to treat diseases and disorders arising from abnormal cell growth, function or behaviour associated with PI3 kinase such as cancer, immune disorders, cardiovascular disease, viral infection, inflammation, metabolism/endocrine disorders and neurological disorders. Processes for synthesizing the compounds are also described.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, for example in the treatment of proliferative disease such as cancer and particularly in disease mediated by an mTOR kinase and/or one or more PI3K enzyme.

Abstract: Compounds which inhibit the activity of anti-apoptotic Mcl-1 protein, compositions containing the compounds and methods of treating diseases during which are expressed the Mcl-1 protein are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted hexahydropyrazino[1,2-a]pyrimidine-4,7-dione derivatives and to the physiologically tolerated salts and physiologically functional derivatives thereof. Compounds of the formula I in which the radicals have the stated meanings, and the physiologically tolerated salts thereof and processes for preparing them are described. The compounds are suitable for example as anorectic agents.

Abstract: A method of treatment of a disease of the human or animal body mediated by PARP comprising administering to such a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula: or an isomer, salt, solvate, chemically protected form, and prodrug thereof, wherein: A and B together represent an optionally substituted, fused aromatic ring; RC is represented by -L-RL, where L is of formula: —(CH2)n1-Qn2-(CH2)n3— wherein n1, n2 and n3 are each selected from 0, 1, 2 and 3, the sum of n1, n2 and n3 is 1, 2 or 3 and Q is selected from O, S, NH, C(?O) or —CR1R2—, where R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, halogen or optionally substituted C1-7 alkyl, or may together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a C3-7 cyclic alkyl group, which may be saturated (a C3-7 cycloalkyl group) or unsaturated (a C3-7 cycloalkenyl group), or one of R1 and R2 may be attached to an atom in RL to form an unsaturated C3-7 cycloalkenyl group which comprises the carbon atoms to which R1 and R2 are a

Abstract: The present invention provides protein kinase inhibitors comprising imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazine and pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine compounds of the following structure (I) and (II): or a stereoisomer, prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R, R1, R2 and X are as defined herein. Compositions and methods for using the same in the treatment of cancer and other Pim kinase-associated conditions are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds which inhibit poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (“PARP”), compositions containing these compounds and methods for using these PARP inhibitors to treat, prevent and/or ameliorate the effects of the conditions described herein.

Abstract: The invention relates to new pteridines which are suitable for the treatment of respiratory or gastrointestinal complaints or diseases, inflammatory diseases of the joints, skin or eyes, diseases of the peripheral or central nervous system or cancers, as well as pharmaceutical compositions which contain these compounds.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: I (where A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, B4, D1, D2, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, R4, R5a?, R5b, R5c, R6, m and n are 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: This invention relates to novel diazabicyclic aryl derivatives which are found to be cholinergic ligands at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and modulators of the monoamine receptors and transporters. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemical genus of biaryl nitrogen-attached heterocycles that are inhibitors of LTA4H (leukotriene A4 hydrolase). The compounds have the general formula They are useful for the treatment and prevention and prophylaxis of inflammatory diseases and disorders.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to N-oxides of certain piperazine and piperidine derivatives and to methods for the preparation of these compounds. The disclosure also relates to the use of the compounds for the manufacture of a medicament giving a beneficial effect. The disclosure also relates to the use of the compounds for the manufacture of a medicament for treating a disease or condition. The disclosure further relates to the treatment of CNS-disorders, in particular the treatment of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, aggression, addiction (including craving), depression, autism, vertigo, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, Parkinson's disease and disturbances of cognition and memory. The compounds have the general formula (1) wherein the symbols have the meanings given in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an imidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidinylacetic acid derivative and salts thereof which is useful as an active ingredient of pharmaceutical preparations.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, esters, and tautomers thereof, wherein: Q is selected from the group consisting of: L is selected from the group consisting of: pharmaceutically compositions comprising one or more compounds of formula (I), and methods of using the compounds of formula (I).

Abstract: Compounds of the Formula: where X1, Ar1, R1, and R2 are as defined herein, and compositions comprising the same. Also provided are methods for using compounds of Formula I in treating p38 mediated disorders in a patient.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds and processes for their preparation, methods of treating diseases, particularly hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer, comprising administering said compounds, and methods of making pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prevention of disorders, particularly hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer.

Abstract: Method and composition of Carboxyamidotriazole orotate for treating age-related macular degeneration and other angiogenesis-dependent diseases.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group etc., R6, R7 and R8 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group etc., R9 and R10 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a (lower cycloalkyl)(lower alkyl) group etc., and R11 represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkoxy group, a (lower alkyl)thio(lower alkoxy) group, a (lower alkyl)sulfinyl(lower alkoxy) group, a (lower alkyl)sulfonyl(lower alkoxy) group etc.), which has potent inhibitory activity on CETP.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the formula (I), which are activators of glucokinase activity and, thus, may be employed as therapeutic agents for the treatment of glucokinase mediated conditions. Accordingly, the compounds of formula (I) may be employed for the prevention and the treatment of impaired glucose tolerance, Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to immunosuppressant, process for their production, their uses and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The invention provides a novel class of compounds useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders mediated by lymphocyte interactions, particularly diseases associated with EDG receptor mediated signal transduction.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel quinuclidine derivatives and their use as pharmaceuticals. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances.

Abstract: The invention provides 3-(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 ?2 agonist.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel therapeutic agent for glioblastoma. In accordance with the present invention, it was found that compounds having an antagonistic action against AMPA receptor are useful as therapeutic agents for glioblastoma, particularly primary glioblastoma de novo with a high malignancy level, and the object has been attained.