Sulfur Containing Substituent Patents (Class 514/208)
  • Patent number: 8518931
    Abstract: The invention relates to triazine and pyrimidine derivatives having Formula (1) or (2), and methods for using such compounds. For example, the compounds of the invention may be used to treat, ameliorate or prevent a condition which responds to inhibition of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) activity, c-ros oncogene (ROS), insulin-like growth factor (IGF-IR), and/or insulin receptor (InsR) or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: IRM LLC
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Pierre-Yves Michellys, Truc Ngoc Nguyen, Wei Pei, Baogen Wu, Xuefeng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20120329770
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cephalosporin derivatives having ?-lactamase inhibitory activity. The compounds are useful in preventing or treating bacterial resistance to an antibiotic, e.g. a ?-lactam antibiotic. Disclosed herein are compounds that are inhibitors of class B metallo-?-lactamases, as well as class A, C, and D serine ?-lactamases. In some preferred embodiments, the compounds are 3?-thiobenzoate derivatives of a cephalosporin. Pharmaceutical compositions, methods, uses, kits and commercial packages comprising the compounds are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Gary Igor Dmitrienko, Ahmad Ghavami, Valerie Joy Goodfellow, Jarrod W. Johnson, Anthony Paul Krismanich, Laura Marrone, Thammaiah Viswanatha, Sundaramma Viswanatha
  • Patent number: 7723389
    Abstract: The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prevention of the toxic effects of therapeutic agents and methods of treating or preventing such toxicity using a toxicity reducing amount of N-acetylcysteine either alone or in combination with a therapeutically effective amount or, to achieve its therapeutic advantages, an amount larger than what is customarily given as a therapeutically effective amount, of a therapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Leonard A. Herzenberg, Leonore A. Herzenberg, Stephen C. De Rosa, James Andrus
  • Patent number: 7700581
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a cephalosporin compound of formula I, wherein R1 is selected from the following groups: wherein R2 is selected from the following groups: the preparation and uses thereof. A method of preparing the cephalosporin compound as disclosed herein comprises reacting a starting cephalosporin comprising a C7 amino group and a C3 thio-methyl moiety substituted with an N-containing heterocyclic group with bromoacetyl bromide and then with a N,N?-bissubstituted thiourea. Methods of treating an infectious disease are also disclosed, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof the pharmaceutical composition disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mao Chen, Shaoxuan Zhu, Xuebin Liu, Chun Luo, Shuwen Xu, Lizhen Zheng, Fang Ye, Chenglong Yi, Xiaona Zhang
  • Patent number: 7488724
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): wherein: R1-R4 and A have any of the values defined in the specification, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, are useful for inhibiting ?-lactamase enzymes, for enhancing the activity of ?-lactam antibiotics, and for treating ?-lactam resistant bacterial infections in a mammal. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), and intermediates useful for the synthesis of compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Southern Methodist University Foundation for Research
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Lakshminarayana Vogeti
  • Patent number: 7115624
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of inhibiting a member of a family of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (PTPases, PTPs) such as PTP1B, TC-PTP, CD45, SHP-1, SHP-2, PTP?, PTP?, PTP?, PTP?, PTP?, PTP?, PTP?, PTPD1, PTPD2, PTPH1, PTP-MEG1, PTP-LAR, and HePTP by exposing said Ptpase member by administration to a host or otherwise to at least one compound with certain structural, physical and spatial characteristics that allow for the interaction of said compound with specific residues of the active site of PTP1B and/or TC-PTP. These compounds are indicated in the management or treatment of a broad range of diseases such as autoimmune diseases, acute and chronic inflammation, osteoporosis, various forms of cancer and malignant diseases, and type I diabetes and type II diabetes, as well as in the isolation of PTPases and in elucidation or further elucidation of their biological function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Henrik Sune Andersen, Thomas Kruse Hansen, Lars Fogh Iversen, Jesper Lau, Niels Peter Hundahl Møller, Ole Hvilsted Olsen, Frank Urban Axe, Yu Ge, Daniel Dale Holsworth, Todd Kevin Jones, Luke Milburn Judge, Wiliam Charles Ripka, Barry Zvi Shapira, Roy Teruyuki Uyeda
  • Patent number: 7094431
    Abstract: This invention pertains to therapeutic antibacterial/antifungal-wound healing compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of antibacterial agents and/or antifungal agents and/or wound healing composition alone. In one embodiment, the wound healing composition comprises (a) zinc oxide; (b) calcium channel blocker, and (c) fat-soluble vitamins admixed with antibacterial and antifungal agents. The therapeutic antibacterial/antifungal-wound healing compositions may be utilized in a wide variety of pharmaceutical products and administered orally or topically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Inventor: Mickey L. Peshoff
  • Patent number: 7022691
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and n have any of the values defined in the specification, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, are useful for inhibiting simultaneously serine and metallo-?-lactamase enzymes, for enhancing the activity of ?-lactam antibiotics, and for treating ?-lactam resistant bacterial infections in a mammal. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, processes for preparing compounds of formula I, and novel intermediates useful for the synthesis of compounds of formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Hansong Chen
  • Patent number: 6916801
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): wherein: R1-R4 and A have any of the values defined in the specification, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, are useful for inhibiting ?-lactamase enzymes, for enhancing the activity of ?-lactam antibiotics, and for treating ?-lactam resistant bacterial infections in a mammal. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, (C1-C10)alkyl, (C2-C10)alkenyl, (C2-C10)alkenyl, (C3-C8)cycloalkyl, (C1-C10)alkoxy, (C1-C10)alkanoyl, (C1-C10)alkanoyloxy, (C1-C10)alkoxycarbonyl, aryl, heterocycle, halo, cyano, nitro, —COORe, —C(?O)NRfRg, —OC(?O)NRfRg, NRfRg, or —S(O)nRh; R3 is hydrogen, halo, aryl, heteroaryl, —S(O)nRh, or —CH?CHC(?O)NRmRp; R4 is hydrogen; A is thio, sulfinyl, or sulfonyl; and intermediates useful for the synthesis of compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Alamx, LLC
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Lakshminarayana Vogeti
  • Patent number: 6906054
    Abstract: The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula I and IV: wherein R1-R11 and A have any of the values defined in the specification, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. The pharmaceutical compositions are useful for inhibiting ?-lactamase enzymes, for enhancing the activity of ?-lactam antibiotics, and for treating ?-lactam resistant bacterial infections in a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, A. Srinivasa Rao, Greg C. Adam, Sirishkumar D. Nidamarthy, Venkata Ramana Doppalapudi
  • Patent number: 6689775
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of thioredoxin as, inter alia, a cell growth stimulator, as well as a screen for agents that are useful in reducing or preventing thioredoxin-associated apoptosis inhibition and agents that are useful in inhibiting thioredoxin stimulated cell growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, acting on behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventor: Garth Powis
  • Publication number: 20030158172
    Abstract: Neurotherapeutically pharmaceutical effective compositions are prepared using carboxypeptidase E inhibitors. One class of carboxypeptidase E inhibitors found to exhibit significant neurotropic activity are &bgr;-lactam compounds, particularly penam and cephem &bgr;-lactam antibiotics and non-antibiotic derivatives thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Gary A. Koppel, Michael O. Chaney
  • Patent number: 6531465
    Abstract: A compound of formula wherein Ac, R1 and R2 have various meanings, a process for a preparation thereof and its use as a pharmaceutical, i.e. as antibacterial agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Biochemie Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Gerd Ascher, Johannes Ludescher
  • Publication number: 20020198161
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions useful for cancer and precancer therapy utilizing sulphur-containing antioxidants. In particular, the present invention relates to methods and compositions which selectively induce apoptosis in cells of cancers or precancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: DOUGLAS E. BRASH, MING LIU
  • Patent number: 6486149
    Abstract: Processes are provided for the preparation of orally administrable, yellow and powdery compositions essentially consisting of particles composed of a homogeneous mixture of an amorphous Cefditoren pivoxil substance with a water soluble high-molecular additive. These compositions can be produced by dissolving crystalline Cefditoren pivoxil substance and the water-soluble high-molecular additive in an aqueous solution of an acid, then neutralizing the resultant solution, to co-precipitate the product, and drying the thus precipitated product, followed by recovering the product in the form of the above-mentioned particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Onodera, Masamichi Sukegawa, Kiyoshi Yasui, Tatsuo Watanabe, Toyomi Sato, Yasushi Murai, Katsuharu Iinuma
  • Publication number: 20020115650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel cephalosporin antibiotics, prodrugs thereof and pharmacologically acceptable salts of either, which are active against a wide spectrum of bacteria that are resistant to present clinical beta-lactam antibiotics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: Microcide Pharmaceuticals.
    Inventor: Tomasz W. Glinka
  • Patent number: 6369049
    Abstract: The invention provides new fluorinated cephalosporin antibiotics of Formula I wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd and Re, independently, are H, F or a C1-C6 alkyl-(Z)n— group having at least one fluorine substituent; X is O or S; Y is S, O, or —CH2—; Z is O, S, —SO—, or —SO2—; m and n independently are 0 or 1; and R1 is H, C1-C6-alkyl, phenyl or benzyl, each of which may optionally have up to three substituents selected from halo, C1-C4-alkoxy, phenyl, NO2, C1-C6-alkanoyl, benzoyl, or C1-C6-alkanoyloxy; or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof; and methods of preventing or treating or treating infection, particularly mastitis in ruminants, using these antibiotics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventor: Karl Robert Dahnke
  • Patent number: 6342493
    Abstract: Processes are provided for the preparation of orally administrable, yellow and powdery compositions essentially consisting of particles composed of a homogeneous mixture of an amorphous Cefditoren pivoxil substance with a water soluble high-molecular additive. These compositions can be produced by dissolving crystalline Cefditoren pivoxil substance and the water-soluble high-molecular additive in an aqueous solution of an acid, then neutralizing the resultant solution, to co-precipitate the product, and drying the thus precipitated product, followed by recovering the product in the form of the above-mentioned particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Onodera, Masamichi Sukegawa, Kiyoshi Yasui, Tatsuo Watanabe, Toyomi Sato, Yasushi Murai, Katsuharu Iinuma
  • Patent number: 6303592
    Abstract: Derivatives of 7-alkylidene cephalosporanic acid sulfone and the pharmaceutically active salts thereof are found to be potent inhibitors of &bgr;-lactamase enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Brian Bachmann
  • Patent number: 6262044
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds, novel compositions, methods of their use, and methods of their manufacture, where such compounds are pharmacologically useful inhibitors of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (PTPase's) such as PTP1B, CD45, SHP-1, SHP-2, PTP&agr;, LAR and HePTP or the like. The compounds are useful in the treatment of type I diabetes, type II diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance, obesity, immune dysfunctions including autoimmunity diseases with dysfunctions of the coagulation system, allergic diseases including asthma, osteoporosis, proliferative disorders including cancer and psoriasis, diseases with decreased or increased synthesis or effects of growth hormone, diseases with decreased or increased synthesis of hormones or cytokines that regulate the release of/or response to growth hormone, diseases of the brain including Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and infectious diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignees: Novo Nordisk A/S, Ontogen Corporation
    Inventors: Niels Peter Hundahl Møller, Henrik Sune Andersen, Lars Fogh Iversen, Ole Hvilsted Olsen, Sven Branner, Daniel Dale Holsworth, Farid Bakir, Luke Milburn Judge, Frank Urban Axe, Todd Kevin Jones, William Charles Ripka, Yu Ge, Roy Teruyuki Uyeda
  • Patent number: 6133254
    Abstract: Use of a compound of formula (I) wherein R represents hydrogen or chlorine, for preparing an immunosuppressive medicament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Gruppo Lepetit, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Khalid Islam
  • Patent number: 6066630
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel compounds of formula ##STR1## where R.sup.99 is selected from the group consisting of sulfur, SO, SO.sub.2, NH, N-alkyl, oxygen, C.dbd.C (cis or trans), and C.tbd.C, and R.sup.12 is ##STR2## The invention also includes the pharmacologically acceptable salts which exhibit antibiotic activity against a wide spectrum of organisms including organisms which are resistant to .beta.-lactam antibiotics and are useful as antibacterial agents. The invention also relates to novel intermediates useful for making the novel compounds of the present invention and to novel methods for producing the novel compounds and intermediate compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Microcide Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: In-Seop Cho, Scott J. Hecker, Tomaz W. Glinka, Ving J. Lee, Zhijia J. Zhang
  • Patent number: 5994340
    Abstract: New 2-oxo-1-azetidine sulfonic acid derivatives with an aminoalkyl substituted "anti" (E-isomer) oxyimino group in the acylamino substituent at the 3 position of the monobactam ring. These compounds are potent inhibitors of bacterial .beta.-lactamases. These compounds can be used in combination with .beta.-lactam antibiotics to increase the effectiveness of the .beta.-lactam antibiotics in fighting infection caused by .beta.-lactamase producing bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: SynPhar Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Samarendra N. Maiti, Oludotun A. Phillips, Eduardo L. Setti, Andhe V. Narender Reddy, Ronald G. Micetich, Fusahiro Higashitani, Chieko Kunugita, Koichi Nishida, Tatsuya Uji
  • Patent number: 5776718
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel reversible protease inhibitors. The inhibitors are specific to cysteine proteases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Arris Pharmaceutical Corporation
    Inventors: James T. Palmer, David Rasnick, Jeffrey Lee Klaus
  • Patent number: 5756493
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel (7R)-7-(acylamino)-3-(arylthio)-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acids or their pharmacologically acceptable salts which exhibit antibiotic activity against a wide spectrum of organisms including organisms which are resistant to .beta.-lactam antibiotics and are useful as antibacterial agents. The invention also relates to novel intermediates useful for making the novel compounds of the present invention and to novel methods for producing the novel compounds and intermediate compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Microcide Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Hecker, In-Seop Cho, Tomasz Glinka, Burton Christensen
  • Patent number: 5726170
    Abstract: The salts are prepared by reacting a benzhydrylamine of the formula I (or a salt thereof) with clavulanic acid (or a salt thereof) in solvent, and isolating the resulting salt. In formula I, each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is hydrogen (preferred) or an acceptable substituent. ##STR1## The clavulanic acid salts can be used in pharmaceutical formulations together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and, preferably, a beta-lactam antibiotic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Spurcourt Limited
    Inventor: George Leo Callewaert
  • Patent number: 5698547
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel (7R)-7-(acylamino)-3-(arylthio)-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acids or their pharmacologically acceptable salts which exhibit antibiotic activity against a wide spectrum of organisms including organisms which are resistant to .beta.-lactam antibiotics and are useful as antibacterial agents. The invention also relates to novel intermediates useful for making the novel compounds of the present invention and to novel methods for producing the novel compounds and intermediate compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Microcide Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Burton Christensen, In-Seop Cho, Tomasz Glinka, Scott Hecker, Ving J. Lee, Zhijia J. Zhang
  • Patent number: 5681563
    Abstract: Cephalosporins with an exocyclic allene in the 7-position and their pharmaceutically active salts are potent inhibitors of .beta.-lactamases and are therefore useful in the treatment of penicillin resistant infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Brian Bachmann
  • Patent number: 5629306
    Abstract: Derivatives of 7-alkylidene cephalosporanic acid sulfone and the pharmaceutically active salts thereof are found to be potent inhibitors of .beta.-lactamase enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Brian Bachmann
  • Patent number: 5597817
    Abstract: Cephalosporins with an exocyclic allene in the 7-position and their pharmaceutically active salts are potent inhibitors of .beta.-lactamases and are therefore useful in the treatment of penicillin resistant infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Southern Methodist University
    Inventors: John D. Buynak, Brian Bachmann
  • Patent number: 5593986
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel (7R)-7-(acylamino)-3-(arylthio)-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acids or their pharmacologically acceptable salts which exhibit antibiotic activity against a wide spectrum of organisms including organisms which are resistant to .beta.-lactam antibiotics and are useful as antibacterial agents. The invention also relates to novel intermediates useful for making the novel compounds of the present invention and to novel methods for producing the novel compounds and intermediate compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Microcide Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Burton G. Christensen, In-Seop Cho, Tomasz W. Glinka, Scott J. Hecker
  • Patent number: 5585372
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically or veterinarily salts thereof; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or halogen or an organic group; R.sub.2 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.14 aralkyl group;R.sub.3 is hydrogen or halogen, or an organic groupR.sub.4 is hydrogen or a group defined as R.sub.2 above or R.sub.4 taken together with R.sub.3 constitutes a C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkanediyl or an alkanediyl radical optionally substituted by methyl or phenyland X is either oxygen or sulphur or NR.sub.6, wherein R.sub.6 is either hydrogen or a group as defined for R.sub.2. A process for their preparation by cyclization of appropriate intermediates is also described.The compounds of formula I and the pharmaceutically and veterinarily acceptable salts thereof are elastase inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Pharmacia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Alpegiani, Pierluigi Bissolino, Ettore Perrone, Vincenzo Rizzo
  • Patent number: 5580865
    Abstract: The present invention provides cephalosporin sulphones or formula (I), and pharmaceutically or veterinarily acceptable salts thereof; ##STR1## wherein n is zero, one or two; R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen or an optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 carboxamido group;R.sub.2 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 alkenyl or C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl group;R.sub.3 is hydrogen or acetoxymethyl, methoxymethyl, methyl or an optionally substituted heterocyclylthiomethyl group;R.sub.4 is an optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkenyl, aryl(C.sub.1 -C.sub.8)alkyl or heterocyclyl(C.sub.1 -C.sub.8)alkyl group; andR.sub.5 is an optionally substituted C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl or a heterocyclyl group.The compounds of formula I and the pharmaceutically and veterinarily acceptable salts thereof are elastase inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Farmitalia Carlo Erba S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Alpegiani, Pierluigi Bissolino, Ettore Perrone, Vincenzo Rizzo
  • Patent number: 5409917
    Abstract: A method and composition for topically treating acne and acneiform dermal disorders includes applying an amount of a cephalosporin antibiotic effective to treat the acne and acneiform dermal disorders. The antibiotic is blended with a carrier suitable for topical application to dermal tissues. The carrier is selected from the group consisting of an aqueous liquid, an alcohol base, a water soluble gel, a lotion, an ointment, a nonaqueous liquid base, a mineral oil base, a blend of mineral oil and petrolatum, liposomes, a time-release patch, and a liquid-absorbed wipe. The cephalosporin can also be combined with benzoyl peroxide in a gel carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignees: Marvin S. Towsend, Leonard Bloom
    Inventors: Howard N. Robinson, Neil F. Martin
  • Patent number: 5312813
    Abstract: A method of killing microorganisms which form a biofilm on a tissue or implant surfaces in a patient, and which are refractory to a biocide at a dose which is effective to kill the microorganism in planktonic form. The effect of the biocide is potentiated, to an effective killing level, by applying an electric field across the surface containing the biofilm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: University Technologies International
    Inventors: John W. F. Costerton, Antoine E. Khoury, Frank Johnson
  • Patent number: 4760060
    Abstract: Carbacephem and cephem compounds represented by the formula: ##STR1## [Wherein X is S or CH.sub.2 ; n is an integer of 1 to 5; R.sub.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic group (where the heterocyclic group is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic group having 1 to 4 of O, S and N); R.sub.2 is a group represented by the formula: ##STR2## (where R.sub.4 is an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl or 2-aminothiazolyl) or a group represented by the formula: ##STR3## (where R.sub.5 is an unsubstituted or substituted lower alkyl); R.sub.3 is hydrogen, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, an organic ammonium group or an ester residue, and R.sub.1 may be a quaternary ammonium group, where --CO.sub.2 R.sub.3 represents --CO.sub.2.sup.- ] have strong antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and are useful for treating various infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Mochida, Takehiro Ogasa, Junichi Shimada, Tadahi Hirata, Kiyoshi Sato, Ryo Okachi
  • Patent number: 4749694
    Abstract: Novel lysine esters used as absorption enhancing agents for gastrointestinally and rectally administered drugs. Also provided are processes for preparation of said lysine ester compounds as well as pharmaceutical formulations and methods for their use as absorption enhancing agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Fix, Stefano A. Pogany
  • Patent number: 4731360
    Abstract: Acylcarnitine used as a nasal, buccal, sublingual and vaginal drug absorption enhancing vehicle for poorly absorbed drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Alexander, A. J. Repta, Joseph A. Fix
  • Patent number: 4729989
    Abstract: Choline ester salts are used as drug absorption enhancing agents for orally and rectally administered drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Alexander, Joseph A. Fix
  • Patent number: 4692441
    Abstract: Choline esters are used as drug absorption enhancing agents for drugs which are poorly absorbed from the nasal, oral, and vaginal cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1987
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Alexander, A. J. Repta, Joseph A. Fix