Abstract: Shermilamine D, a novel cytotoxic pyridoacridine alkaloid of Formula 1, has been isolated from the tunicate Cystodytes violatinctus. The structure of the compound has been established on the basis of 1-D and 2-D NMR data.

Abstract: A 1,2,3-thiadiazole derivative represented by general formula (I): [wherein R1 is hydrogen atom, halogen atom, (C1-C6) alkyl, phenyl, etc., R2 is the following group (A) or group (B): (wherein R3 is halogen atom, cyano, etc., R4 is hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano, etc., X and Y, same or different, are oxygen atom or sulfur atom, n is 0-3, R5 is hydrogen atom, (C1-C20) alkyl, etc., R6 is (C1-C20) alkyl, (C2-C20) alkenyl, etc., and m is 0-2)]; a plant disease controller containing said compound as active ingredient; and a method for using said controller.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new positive allosteric AMPA receptor modulators of general formula (I) 1

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel &bgr;-carboline derivatives of the general formula 1

Abstract: The invention is a series of 7-substituted quinazolin-2,4-diones useful as antibacterial agents, processes for the preparation of the compounds, and a pharmaceutical composition containing one or more of the compounds.

Abstract: Psychogenic impotence can be ameliorated without substantial undesirable side effects by administration of apomorphine and an antiemetic agent in an amount sufficient to substantially reduce nausea symptoms associated with the use of apomorphine.

Abstract: A nitrogen-containing tetracyclic compound represented by the formula: wherein Y1—Y2—Y3 is N—C═N or a group represented by the formula: C═C—NR3 (wherein R3 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-5 alkyl group or a nitrogen-containing C2-10 alkyl group), Y4 is S, SO, SO2, CH2 or a group represented by the formula: NR4 (wherein R4 is a C1-5 alkanoyl group or a C1-5 alkyl group), R1 and R2 are the same or different, and are each a hydrogen atom, a C1-10 alkyl group, a C3-15 alkoxyalkyl group or a C3-15 alkylaminoalkyl group, or R1 and R2 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a cyclic amino group, X1 and X2 are the same or different, and are each a hydrogen atom, a C1-5 alkyl group, a C1-5 alkoxy group or a halogen atom, and n is 0, 1 or 2; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula: wherein ring Q is an optionally substituted pyridine ring; One of R0, R1 and R2 is —Y0—Z0, and the other tow groups are a hydrogen, a halogen, an optionally substituted hydroxy group, a hydrocarbon group that may be an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an acyl group; Y0 is a bond or an optionally substituted bivalent hydrocarbon group; Z0 is a basic group which may be bonded via oxygen, nitrogen, —CO—, —CS—, —SO2N(R3)— (where R3 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group), or S(O)n (wherein n is to 0, 1 or 2); ......... is a single bond or a double bond, or a salt thereof, which has an excellent LDL receptor up-regulating, blood-lipids lowering, blood-sugar lowering and diabetic complication-ameliorating activity.

Abstract: A method of treating a disease of condition administering topically to the skin or exposed tissue of a human, a dosage amount of a pharmaceutical composition, said dosage comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a drug to treat said disease or condition and a form of hyaluronic acid characterized in that the composition is immediately available to transport the drug percutaneously into the epidermis of the skin or exposed tissue to the site of trauma or pathology of the disease or condition to be treated.

Abstract: This invention concerns compounds of formula the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein the dotted line represents an optional bond; X is oxygen or sulfur; —A— is a bivalent radical of formula; R1 and R2 each independently are hydrogen, hydroxy, halo, cyano, C1-6alkyl, trihalomethyl, trihalomethoxy, C2-6alkenyl, C1-6alkyloxy, hydroxyC1-6alkyloxy, C1-6alkyloxyC1-6alkyloxy, C1-6alkyloxycarbonyl, aminoC1-6alkyloxy, mono- or di(C1-6alkyl)aminoC1-6alkyloxy, Ar, Ar—C1-6alkyl, Ar-oxy, Ar—C1-6alkyloxy; or when on adjacent positions R1 and R2 taken together may form a bivalent radical; R3 and R4 each independently are hydrogen, halo, cyano, C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyloxy, Ar-oxy, C1-6alkylthio, di(C1-6alkyl)amino, trihalomethyl, trihalomethoxy, or when on adjacent positions R3 and R4 taken together may form a bivalent radical; R5 is an imidazolyl substituted with hydrogen or C1-6alkyl; R6 hydrogen, hydroxy, halo, cyano