Tricyclo Ring System Having The Seven-membered Hetero Ring A One Of The Cyclos Patents (Class 514/217)
  • Publication number: 20110028453
    Abstract: Use of a compound that is a serotonin transporter inhibitor, a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, or a 5-HT1A agonist for alleviating negative symptoms in a schizophrenia patient who carries a defective neuregulin 1 gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Wen-Mei Fu, Ya-Hsuan Chiang, Hai-Gwo Hwu, Chih-Min Liu
  • Publication number: 20110021502
    Abstract: The invention discloses the use of cholinesterase inhibitors in treating vascular depression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventor: Roger Michael LANE
  • Publication number: 20110021499
    Abstract: Urethral suppositories containing a mixed-activity anti-cholinergic drug and methods of use for treatment of over-active bladder are provided. Buffering drugs to pH near their pKas can result in a desired proportion of uncharged drug and can enhance absorption of the agents into urethral tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Amie Ellen Franklin, Dennis H. Giesing
  • Patent number: 7872043
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of one or several synthetic or natural furan alkyls for cosmetically treating cellulite. Said furan alkyls preferably correspond to formula (I), wherein identical or different R1, R2, R3et R4 are independently of each other a hydrogen atom, a C1-C35alkyl radical, C1-C35 alcenyl radical or a C1-C35 alcynyl radical, preferably C10-C22, wherein said alkyl, alcenyl and alcynyl radicals are substitutable and R1, R2, R3 are preferably a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Laboratories Expanscience
    Inventors: Antoine Piccirilli, Philippe Msika, Nathalie Piccardi
  • Publication number: 20110009351
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel assay or screen for identifying compounds with potential therapeutic value for the treatment of protein trafficking diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI). The usual approach involves expressing the mutant form of the gene in cells and assaying function in a multiwell format when cells are exposed to libraries of compounds. Although such functional assays are useful, they do not directly test the ability of a compound to correct defective trafficking of the protein. To address this a novel corrector screening assay for CF has been developed in which the appearance of the mutant protein at the cell surface is measured as the assay output. This assay was used to screen more than 3100 compounds. This novel screening approach to protein trafficking diseases is robust and general, and may enable the selection of molecules that can be translated rapidly to a clinical setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: David Y. Thomas, John Hanrahan, Graeme Carlile, Renaud Robert
  • Patent number: 7867999
    Abstract: Methods for using hydroxyamino- and amino-substituted pyridine analogs are disclosed herein to treat rho kinase-mediated diseases or rho kinase-mediated conditions, including controlling intraocular pressure and treating glaucoma, are disclosed. Ophthalmic pharmaceutical compositions useful in the treatment of eye diseases such as glaucoma, and additionally useful for controlling intraocular pressure, the compositions comprising an effective amount of hydroxyamino- and amino-substituted pyridine analogs, are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Alcon Research, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hwang-Hsing Chen, Najam A. Sharif, Mark R. Hellberg
  • Patent number: 7858612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for maintaining the remission of or treating inflammatory bowel diseases, which comprises administering a maintenance therapeutically effective amount or a therapeutically effective amount of 7,8-dimethoxy-4(5H),10-dioxo-1H-1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-c][1]benzoazepine, a prodrug thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a mammal, wherein the prodrug is 2-(1-isopropoxycarbonyloxy-2-methylpropyl)-7,8-dimethoxy-4(5H),10-dioxo-2H-1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-c][1]benzoazepine. The method according to the present invention is effective in the maintenance therapy and therapy of the inflammatory bowel diseases and has few side effects. Particularly, the method according to the present invention may exhibit strong maintenance therapeutic and therapeutic effects, even on severe cases having resistance to the conventional therapeutics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Ninomiya, Takashi Shishikura, Mitsuhiro Uchida, Sho Takahata, Yukari Hoshina, Ken-ichi Kawano
  • Patent number: 7855195
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating of the underlying dysregulation of the emotional functionality of mental disorders (i.e. affect instability-hypersensitivity-hyperaesthesia-dissociative phenomena- . . . ) using compounds and compositions of compounds having D4 and/or 5-HT2A antagonistic, partial agonistic or inverse agonistic activity for. The invention also relates to methods comprising administering to a patient diagnosed as having a neuropsychiatric disorder a pharmaceutical composition containing (i) compounds having D4 antagonistic, partial agonistic or inverse agonistic activity and/or (ii) compounds having 5-HT2A antagonistic, partial agonistic or inverse agonistic, and/or (iii) any known medicinal compound and compositions of said compounds. The combined D4 and 5-HT2A antagonistic, partial agonistic or inverse agonistic effects may reside within the same chemical or biological compound or in two different chemical and/or biological compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: PharmaNeuroBoost N.V.
    Inventor: Erik Buntinx
  • Publication number: 20100317633
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a hexahydro-cyclooctyl pyrazole cannabinoid modulator compound of formula (I): and a method for use in treating, ameliorating or preventing a cannabinoid receptor mediated syndrome, disorder or disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Mingde Xia, Fina Liotta, Huajun Lu, Meng Pan, Michael P. Wachter, Mark J. Macielag
  • Publication number: 20100311710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new cyclobutanemethanamine inhibitors of monoamine reuptake, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: AUSPEX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Gant, Sepehr Sarshar, Manouchehr M. Shahbaz
  • Publication number: 20100311727
    Abstract: Therapeutic amine-arylsulfonamide conjugate compounds, of the general formula: wherein R? is [D-W-], hydroxyl, or alkoxyl; R? is independently [D-W?-], hydrogen, alkoxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aryl, or R? and R? together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 4-, 5-, 6-, 7- or 8-membered ring optionally containing one or two further heteroatoms independently selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur; D is independently a therapeutic amine radical comprising at least one nitrogen atom and optionally at least one oxygen atom coupled to W or W? by a nitrogen or oxygen atom; W and W? are a chemical bond or linker; wherein either R? is [D-W-] or at least one R? is [D-W?-], and pharmaceutically acceptable esters, amides, salts or solvates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, methods for their preparation, and their use in treating psychiatric, neurologic and metabolic disorders are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: ALGEBRA, INC.
    Inventors: Philip F. MORGAN, James L. KELLEY
  • Publication number: 20100310512
    Abstract: The invention is related to anti-viral compounds, compositions containing such compounds, and therapeutic methods that include the administration of such compounds, as well as to processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Hongyan Guo, Darryl Kato, Thorsten A. Kirschberg, Hongtao Liu, John O. Link, Michael L. Mitchell, Jay P. Parrish, Jianyu Sun, James Taylor, Elizabeth M. Bacon, Eda Canales, Aesop Cho, Choung U. Kim, Jeromy J. Cottell, Manoj C. Desai, Randall L. Halcomb, Michael Graupe, Evan S. Krygowski, Scott E. Lazerwith, Qi Liu, Richard L. Mackman, Hyung-Jun Pyun, Joseph H. Saugier, James D. Trenkle, Winston C. Tse, Randall W. Vivian, Scott D. Schroeder, William J. Watkins, Lianhong Xu
  • Publication number: 20100311701
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising a co-crystal of an API and a co-crystal former; wherein the API has at least one functional group selected from ether, thioether, alcohol, thiol, aldehyde, ketone, thioketone, nitrate ester, phosphate ester, thiophosphate ester, ester, thioester, sulfate ester, carboxylic acid, phosphonic acid, phosphinic acid, sulfonic acid, amide, primary amine, secondary amine, ammonia, tertiary amine, imine, thiocyanate, cyanamide, oxime, nitrile diazo, organohalide, nitro, S-heterocyclic ring, thiophene, N-heterocyclic ring, pyrrole, O-heterocyclic ring, furan, epoxide, peroxide, hydroxamic acid, imidazole, pyridine and the co-crystal former has at least one functional group selected from amine, amide, pyridine, imidazole, indole, pyrrolidine, carbonyl, carboxyl, hydroxyl, phenol, sulfone, sulfonyl, mercapto and methyl thio, such that the API and co-crystal former are capable of co-crystallizing from a solution phase under crystallization conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicants: Transform Pharmaceuticals, Inc, University Of South Florida, The Regents of the University Of Michigan
    Inventors: Orn Almarsson, Magali Bourghol Hickey, Matthew Peterson, Michael J. Zaworotko, Brian Moulton, Nair Rodriguez-Hornedo
  • Publication number: 20100311728
    Abstract: Provided herein methods of screening for potential antidepressant compounds effective to increase production of cellular CDP-diacylglycerol and synthesis of inositol phospholipid in depression-related areas of the brain. Also, provided are methods of diagnosing and treating depressive or mood disorders in a subject by administering these screened antidepressant compounds. Further provided is a method of determining the therapeutic efficacy of an antidepressant drug regimen by comparing the ratio of CDP-diacylglycerol/inositol phosphate after treatment to a basal ratio in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventor: Ashiwel S. Undieh
  • Publication number: 20100305103
    Abstract: This invention provides molecular markers that are prognostic and/or diagnostic for a psychiatric disorder. In particular, genes are identified whose expression is altered in schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder thereby providing prognostic and diagnostic markers for the disorder. In addition genes are identified whose dysregulation provides markers that allow diagnostic distinction between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Marquis P. Vawter, Ling Shao
  • Publication number: 20100305095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to, inter alia, the use of a compound capable of inhibiting 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) in an animal in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment and/or prevention of depression. The invention also provides for the use of a compound capable of inhibiting HPPD in an animal in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment of the withdrawal symptoms associated with an addictive drug which causes dopamine dependant associative learning disorders in said animal. In a particular embodiment said HPPD inhibitor is selected from the group consisting of the compound depicted as compound 1; 2; and 3.22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Kim Zachary Travis, John Posner
  • Publication number: 20100297251
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for delivery of an enteric coated active agent generally resistant to disintegration in an neutral environment having one or more active agents encapsulated by a polymer coating formed by chemical vapor deposition of one or more monomers on the one or more active agents to form a chemical vapor deposition polymer coating that controls the release of the one or more active agents in the gastrointestinal tract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicants: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, AEONCLAD COATINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Richard B. Timmons, Ceren Susut, Donald E. Owens, III, J. Brian Windsor, Rachel Kennedy Khorzad
  • Publication number: 20100298296
    Abstract: The invention provides small molecule drugs that are chemically modified by covalent attachment of a water soluble oligomer. A conjugate of the invention, when administered by any of a number of administration routes, exhibits characteristics that are different from the characteristics of the small molecule drug not attached to the water soluble oligomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Nektar Therapeutics
    Inventors: Wen Zhang, Xuyuan Gu, Stephanie Allums, Jennifer Riggs-Sauthier
  • Publication number: 20100297181
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating epilepsy, mental disorders and/or deficits in sensory organ by administering to patients therapeutically effective amounts of AMPA receptor antagonists in combination with one or more other active ingredients useful for treating epilepsy, mental disorders and/or deficits in sensory organ. The invention also provides pharmaceutical combinations, kits, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising therapeutically effective amounts of AMPA receptor antagonists, and optionally, one or more other active ingredients that are useful for treating epilepsy, mental disorders and/or deficits in sensory organ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Hanada, Shigeki Hibi, Kazuki Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20100292216
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating psychiatric conditions, such as depression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: ADAMAS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Laurence R. Meyerson, Gregory T. Went, Timothy J. Fultz
  • Publication number: 20100292217
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for CNS disorders such as epilepsy and migraine comprising the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of ranolazine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Gilead Palo Alto, Inc.
    Inventors: Luiz Belardinelli, Alfred George, Kristopher Kahlig, Sridharan Rajamani
  • Publication number: 20100291151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new 1-methylpyrazole modulators of substance P release, calcitonin gene-related peptide activity, adrenergic receptor activity, and/or 5-HT receptor activity, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: AUSPEX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Gant, Sepehr Sarshar
  • Publication number: 20100292165
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of biochemistry and medicine. More specifically, the invention relates to methods and pharmaceuticals for the treatment of intestinal neoplasia. The invention discloses the surprising finding that inhibitors of Notch pathway activation (for example, ?-secretase inhibitors) are extremely useful in the treatment of intestinal adenoma and/or adenocarcinoma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Hubrecht Laboratorium a corporation of the Netherlands
    Inventors: Johannes Carolus Clevers, Maria Elisabeth Van Gijn, Johannes Hendrikus Van Es
  • Publication number: 20100285119
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an extended release pharmaceutical composition comprising at least two populations of extended release minitablets having a core comprising carbamazepine or its pharmaceutical salts, solvates, hydrates, an extended release polymer(s), wherein the extended release polymer of each population of minitablets is unalike. The process for manufacturing said composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Jubilant Organosys Ltd.
    Inventor: Murali Krishna Bhavarisetti
  • Publication number: 20100285139
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for prophylaxis and/or treatment of infections and/or infectious diseases occurring in cystic fibrosis includes at least one antidepressant; at least one dispersant; and at least one pharmaceutically tolerable carrier material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: CYCNAD GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventor: Erich Gulbins
  • Publication number: 20100279991
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a tetrahydro-cyclopentyl pyrazole cannabinoid modulator compound of formula (I): and a method for use in treating, ameliorating or preventing a cannabinoid receptor mediated syndrome, disorder or disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Fina Liotta, Mingde Xia, Michael P. Wachter, Scott A. Beers
  • Publication number: 20100278920
    Abstract: Drug delivery of resistance reversal agents by polyacrylate nanoparticles for treatment of drug (e.g. chloroquine) resistant malaria. Also provided are drug delivery by polyacrylate nanoparticles of ciprofloxacin for treatment of anthrax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Edward Turos, Ryan Cormier, Dennis E. Kyle
  • Patent number: 7825156
    Abstract: A benzamide derivative, especially amisulpride, is used to prevent or treat bipolar depression of a patient suffering from bipolar disorder I or bipolar disorder II.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Copharms
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Azorin
  • Publication number: 20100273773
    Abstract: The present invention is related to novel tricyclic compounds of formula (I) having TRPA1 receptor agonistic properties, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, chemical processes for preparing these compounds and their use as pharmacological tools, or as irritant incapacitants, or in the treatment of diseases linked to the modulation of the TRPA1 receptors in animals, in particular humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Henricus Jacobus Maria Gijsen, Marc Hubert Mercken
  • Publication number: 20100266711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new thienobenzodiazepine modulators of D1 receptors, D2 receptors, and/or 5-HT2 receptors, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: AUSPEX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Gant, Sepehr Sarshar
  • Publication number: 20100267695
    Abstract: [Problems] To provide a compound which is useful as an NMDA receptor antagonist. [Means for Solution] The present inventors have studied a compound having an NMDA receptor antagonistic action, and confirmed that the fused indane compound of the present invention has an excellent NMDA receptor antagonistic action, thereby completed the present invention. The fused indane compound of the present invention has an excellent NMDA receptor antagonistic action and can be used as a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular dementia, Parkinson's disease, intractable depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, migraines, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hayashibe, Shingo Yamasaki, Nobuyuki Shiraishi, Hiroaki Hoshii, Takahiko Tobe
  • Patent number: 7812015
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of inhibitors of acid sphingomyelinase and/or of inhibitors of products of the reaction catalyzed by this enzyme, for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of infectious diseases and/or diseases which are influenced by infections during the course thereof. The cited products especially include ceramide. Preferrably neutralizing antibodies and/or antidepressants, especially tricyclic and/or tetracyclic antidepressants, are used as inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Inventor: Erich Gulbins
  • Publication number: 20100256116
    Abstract: A method of screening a subject for a serotonergic neurotransmission dysregulation disorder comprises detecting the presence or absence of an Tph2 mutation in the subject; and then determining that the subject is at increased risk of a serotonergic neurotransmission dysregulation disorder due to the presence or absence of the Tph2 mutation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Marc G. Caron, Xiaodong Zhang, Martin Beaulieu, Raul R. Gainetdinov, Tatiana D. Sotnikova, Ranga R. Krishnan, David A. Schwartz, Redford B. Williams, Lauranell Burch
  • Patent number: 7803786
    Abstract: The present invention comprises pharmaceutical compositions comprising a co-crystal of an API and a co-crystal former, and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignees: Transform Pharmaceuticals, Inc., University of South Florida
    Inventors: Jennifer McMahon, Matthew Peterson, Michael J. Zaworotko, Tanise Shattock, Magali Bourghol Hickey
  • Publication number: 20100234349
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel pharmaceutical compositions comprising therapeutically effective combination of a positive allosteric modulator of nicotine receptors; and a cognitive enhancer selected from the group consisting of a nicotine acetylcholine receptor agonist, an acetylcholine esterase inhibitor, a positive AMPA receptor modulator, an antipsychotic drug, an antidepressant drug and an anti Parkinson drug. The pharmaceutical compositions for use according to the invention are contemplated particularly useful for combating cognitive disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Gunnar M. Olsen, Dan Peters, Bjarne H. Dahl, Jeppe Kejser Christensen, Steven Charles Loechel, Daniel B. Timmermann
  • Publication number: 20100234331
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a hexahydro-cyclooctyl pyrazole cannabinoid modulator compound of formula (I): and a method for use in treating, ameliorating or preventing a cannabinoid receptor mediated syndrome, disorder or disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Mingde Xie, Fina Liotta, Huajun Lu, Meng Pan, Michael P. Wachter
  • Publication number: 20100222327
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the treatment of various diseases and conditions with eslicarbazepine acetate. The present disclosure also relates to the use of eslicarbazepine acetate in a method for reducing or decreasing epileptic seizures in a patient. The present disclosure also relates to a method for increasing the exposure to eslicarbazepine in a patient. The present disclosure also relates to a method of preparing a pharmaceutical composition comprising eslicarbazepine acetate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: José Luis de Almeida, Patrício Manuel Vieira Araújo Soares Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20100222283
    Abstract: Methods are provided for treating and preventing renal disease in a subject by administering a gamma secretase inhibitor or a Notch pathway inhibitor to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Katalin Susztak, Bernhard Bielesz, Thiruvur G. Niranjan
  • Publication number: 20100216776
    Abstract: Provided are methods of determining whether a compound is an inhibitor of an S100 protein. The methods utilize a biosensor that comprises the S100 protein that has a covalently bound fluorescent dye at an amino acid residue of the S100 protein that becomes less exposed to the aqueous solution upon activation of the S100 protein, where the fluorescent dye has decreased fluorescence when exposed to the aqueous solution than when protected from exposure to the aqueous solution. Also provided are methods of treating a subject having metastatic cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Anne Reba Bresnick, Sarah Claire Garrett
  • Publication number: 20100215774
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the composition and methods of manufacture of orally-dissolvable, edible films as a vehicle for the non-invasive administration of nitroglycerin and/or other active drugs through the mucosal tissues of the oral cavity. The films include a water soluble film-forming polymer such as pullulan. Methods for producing the films are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Todd Maibach
  • Patent number: 7781425
    Abstract: A guanidine compound having a biaryl skeleton represented by the following formula (1), which is useful as a catalyst for various asymmetric reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Takasago International Coporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Terada, Hitoshi Ube, Shigeko Yokoyama, Hideo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20100204207
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I): wherein n, m, p, q, Y, R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined herein and their pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Xinchao Chen, Christopher Lawrence Cioffi, Sean Richard Dinn, Ana Maria Escribano, Maria Carmen Fernandez, Todd Fields, Robert Jason Herr, Nathan Bryan Mantlo, Eva Maria Martin De La Nava, Ana Isabel Mateo Herranz, Saravanan Parthasarathy, Xiaodong Wang
  • Publication number: 20100196466
    Abstract: A novel encapsulated product is provided and includes: at least one pharmaceutical; at least one compressible material; and at least one tableting material; wherein the encapsulated product is in the form of a caplet having a diameter of from about 1 millimeter to about 7 millimeters and a length from about 1 millimeter to about 7 millimeters. A method for preparing the encapsulated product is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Capricorn Pharma Inc.
    Inventor: S. Rao CHERUKURI
  • Publication number: 20100197663
    Abstract: Chronic pain is treated with a combination of a standard dose of a non-narcotic analgesic and a low dose of a tricyclic antidepressant compound. The invention is effective in the treatment of chronic pain associate with neuropathic or fibromuscular disorders, where such pain has been unresponsive to non-narcotic analgesics alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: RODLEN LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventor: Joel E. Bernstein
  • Publication number: 20100197661
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating neurological diseases and disorders. Compounds that replace or enhance the function of SMN or alleviate or reduce a phenotype of cells with low SMN protein levels are provided. Screening methods and kits for identifying such compounds also are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Gideon Dreyfuss, Jin Wang
  • Publication number: 20100190705
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of decreasing glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels in a cell. Such methods include administering an effective amount of a GFAP lowering compound to the cell. Also provided are compounds useful for the treatment of Alexander disease in subjects at risk of or diagnosed with Alexander disease and methods for the identification of such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Albee Messing, Woosung Cho, Jon Scott Thorson, Randal D. Goff
  • Publication number: 20100190752
    Abstract: A composition of matter comprising in combination as component (a) at least one 3-(3-dimethylamino-1-ethyl-2-methyl-propyl)-phenol compound, and as component (b) at least one antiepileptic, a pharmaceutical formulation and a dosage form comprising said composition of matter, and a method of treating pain, e.g. neuropathic pain, in which components (a) and (b) are administered simultaneously or sequentially to a mammal, whereby component (a) may be administered before or after component (b) and whereby components (a) or (b) are administered to the mammal either via the same or a different pathway of administration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schiene, Petra Bloms-Funke, Thomas Christoph
  • Patent number: 7763612
    Abstract: Therapeutic amine-arylsulfonamide conjugate compounds, of the general formula: wherein R? is [D-W-], hydroxyl, or alkoxyl; R? is independently [D-W?-], hydrogen, alkoxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aryl, or R? and R? together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 4-, 5-, 6-, 7- or 8-membered ring optionally containing one or two further heteroatoms independently selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur; D is independently a therapeutic amine radical comprising at least one nitrogen atom and optionally at least one oxygen atom coupled to W or W? by a nitrogen or oxygen atom; W and W? are a chemical bond or linker; wherein either R? is [D-W-] or at least one R? is [D-W?-], and pharmaceutically acceptable esters, amides, salts or solvates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, methods for their preparation, and their use in treating psychiatric, neurologic and metabolic disorders are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Algebra, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip F. Morgan, James L. Kelley
  • Patent number: 7763603
    Abstract: Provided herein methods of screening for potential antidepressant compounds effective to increase production of cellular CDP-diacylglycerol and synthesis of inositol phospholipid in depression-related areas of the brain. Also, provided are methods of diagnosing and treating depressive or mood disorders in a subject by administering these screened antidepressant compounds. Further provided is a method of determining the therapeutic efficacy of an antidepressant drug regimen by comparing the ratio of CDP-diacylglycerol/inositol phosphate after treatment to a basal ratio in a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
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    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
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