Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the following structure, wherein R1, R2, R4, R4?, R6, R7, and R15 are defined above: These compounds are useful in treating neurological disorders or complications due to stroke or head injury; benign or malignant neoplastic disease, carcinomas and adenocarcinomas; proliferative disorders; and inflammatory disorders. The compounds are therefore useful as neuroprotective and neuroregenerative, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory agents.

Abstract: The present invention features rifamycin analogs and methods of using these compounds to treat a variety of microbial infections.

Abstract: The invention features methods and compositions for treating bacterial infections.

Abstract: The compounds include substituted rifamycin derivatives in which a quinolone carboxylic acid pharmacophore is covalently bonded to a benzoxazinorifamycin or a spiropiperidinorifamycin. The rifamycin derivatives are useful as antimicrobial agents and are effective against a number of human and veterinary Gram positive and Gram negative pathogens. The advantage of the inventive compounds is that both the rifamycin and quinolone antibacterial pharmacophores are co-delivered with matched pharmacokinetics to the targeted pathogens of interests. Delivery of multiple antibacterial pharmacophores simultaneously to the targeted pathogens has the maximum chance of achieving synergy and minimizing the development of resistance to the antibiotics given.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides tetracyclic compounds of formula I or formula II (wherein the various moieties are as defined herein) useful as metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) antagonists, particularly as selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods of treatment using the compounds and compositions to treat diseases associated with metabotropic glutamate receptor (e.g., mGluR1) such as, for example, pain, migraine, anxiety, urinary incontinence and neurodegenerative diseases such Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: The invention relates in part to molecules having certain biological activities that include, but are not limited to, inhibiting cell proliferation, modulating protein kinase activity and modulating polymerase activity. Molecules of the invention can modulate casein kinase (CK) activity and/or poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) activity. The invention also relates in part to methods for using such molecules.

Abstract: HIV inhibitory compounds of formula: salts and stereoisomers thereof, wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-10alkyl; R3 is n is 1, 2 or 3; R3a is nitro, cyano, amino, halo, hydroxy, C1-4alkyloxy, hydroxycarbonyl, aminocarbonyl, C 1-4alkyloxycarbonyl, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)aminocarbonyl, C1-4alkylcarbonyl, methanimidamidyl, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)methanimidamidyl, N-hydroxy-methanimidamidyl or Het; or R3 is a monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic heterocyclic ring system, wherein one, two, three or four ring members are nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, and wherein the remaining ring members are carbon atoms; and wherein each of said heterocyclic ring systems may optionally be substituted; X is —NR7—, —O— or —S—; pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods for preparing these compounds and compositions.

Abstract: The invention features methods and compositions for treating bacterial infections.

Abstract: The present invention features rifamycin analogs that can be used as therapeutics for treating or preventing a variety of microbial infections. In one form, the analogs are acetylated at the 25-position, as is rifamycin. In another form, the analogs are deacetylated at the 25-position. In yet other forms, benzoxazinorifamycin, benzthiazinorifamycin, and benzdiazinorifamycin analogs are derivatized at various positions of the benzene ring, including 3?-hydroxy analogs, and/or various fused ring systems with the benzene ring at the 4?,5? or 5?,6? positions.

Abstract: The present invention features rifamycin analogs that can be used as therapeutics for treating or preventing a variety of microbial infections. In one form, the analogs are acetylated at the 25-position, as is rifamycin. In another form, the analogs are deacetylated at the 25-position. In yet other forms, benzoxazinorifamycin, benzthiazinorifamycin, and benzdiazinorifamycin analogs are derivatized at various positions of the benzene ring, including 3?-hydroxy analogs, 5?-halo and/or alkoxy analogs, and various 4?- and/or 6?-substituents that incorporate a cyclic amine moiety.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the formula that possess antimicrobial activity. Certain compounds provided herein possess potent antibacterial, antiprotozoal, or antifungal activity. Particular compounds provided herein are also potent and/or selective inhibitors of microbial DNA synthesis and reproduction. The invention provides anti-microbial compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, containing a compound of the invention and one or more or more carriers. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions containing a 4-substituted-1H-isothiazolo[5,4-b][1,4]oxazino[2,3,4-ij]quinoline-7,8(2H,9H)-dione or related compound as the only active agent or in combination with one or more other active agents.

Abstract: Fused [1,2]imidazo[4,5-c] ring compounds, e.g., fused [1,2]imidazo[4,5-c]quinolines and [1,2]imidazo[4,5-c]naphthyridines, with a substituent, e.g., a substituted alkoxy substituent, at the 6, 7, 8, or 9-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, methods of making and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.

Abstract: Compounds of the following structure, wherein R1, R2, R4, R4?, R6, R7, and R15 are defined above, are provided: These compounds are useful in treating neurological disorders or complications due to stroke or head injury. The compounds are therefore useful as neuroprotective and neuroregenerative agents.

Abstract: The invention relates in part to methods for inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells and treating one or more cell proliferative conditions using compounds described herein.

Abstract: The invention relates in part to methods for treating ophthalmic conditions using compounds described herein. The conditions to be treated include various ocular cancers. The compositions employed include a polycyclic quinolinone derivative or related heteroaromatic analog thereof.

Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides tetracyclic compounds of formula I or formula II (wherein the various moieties are as defined herein) useful as metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) antagonists, particularly as selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and methods of treatment using the compounds and compositions to treat diseases associated with metabotropic glutamate receptor (e.g., mGluR1) such as, for example, pain, migraine, anxiety, urinary incontinence and neurodegenerative diseases such Alzheimers disease.

Abstract: The invention concerns substituted tricyclic isoxazoline derivatives, more in particular tricyclic dihydrobenzopyranoisoxazoline, dihydroquinolinoisoxazoline, dihydronaphthalenoisoxazoline and dihydrobenzothiopyranoisoxazoline derivatives substituted on at least one of the C6- and C9-positions of the phenylpart of the tricyclic moiety with a selected radical, according to Formula (I) wherein X=CH2, N—R7, S or O, R1, R2, R14 and R15 are certain specific substituents, with the proviso that at least one of R14 and R15 is not hydrogen, Pir is preferably an optionally substituted piperidinyl or piperazinyl radical and R3 represents an optionally substituted aromatic homocyclic or heterocyclic ring system including a partially or completely hydrogenated hydrocarbon chain of maximum 6 atoms long with which the ring system is attached to the Pir radical and which may contain one or more heteroatoms selected from the group of O, N and S; a process for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having the structure of formula I: wherein R1 is hydrogen, (C1–C6) alkyl, unconjugated (C3–C6) alkenyl, benzyl, YC(?O)(C1–C6) alkyl or —CH2CH2—O—(C1–C4) alkyl; X is CH2 or CH2CH2; Y is (C2–C6) alkylene; Z is (CH2)m, CF2, or C(?O), where m is 0, 1 or 2; R2 and R3 are selected independently from hydrogen, halogen, —(C1–C6) alkyl optionally substituted with from 1 to 7 halogen atoms, and —O(C1–C6) alkyl optionally substituted with from 1 to 7 halogen atoms, or R2 and R3 each together with the atom to which it is connected independently form C(?O), S?O, S(?O)2, or N?O; and is a 5- to 7-membered monocyclic heteroaryl group selected from pyridinyl, pyridone, pyridazinyl, imidazolyl, pyrimidinyl, pyrazolyl, triazolyl, pyrazinyl, furyl, thienyl, isoxazolyl, thiazolyl, oxazolyl, isothiazolyl, pyrrolyl, cinnolinyl, triazinyl, oxadiazolyl, thiadiazolyl and furazanyl groups.

Abstract: Fused [1,2]imidazo[4,5-c] ring compounds (e.g., imidazo[4,5-c]quinolines, 6,7,8,9-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-c]quinolines, imidazo[4,5-c]naphthyridines, and 6,7,8,9-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-c]naphthyridines) with a —CH(—X1—R1)-group in the fused ring at the 1-position of the imidazo ring, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, methods of making the compounds, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases, are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for alleviating respiratory depression in a subject as a result of disease of pharmacological agents such as opiates, opioids or barbiturates. The invention also discloses pharmaceutical compositions for use with the method, the composition containing in combination, an analgesic, anaesthetic, or a sedative and a positive allosteric AMPA receptor modulator in an amount sufficient to reduce or inhibit respiratory depression caused by the analgesic, anaesthetic, or sedative.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quinobenzoxazines analogs having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs thereof; wherein A, U, V, W, X and Z are substituents. The present invention also relates to methods for using such compounds.

Abstract: Ansamycin analogs, including maytansinoid analogs, and their use in treating cell proliferative diseases and conditions, and in particular, for use as antitumor agents.

Abstract: A pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof or a hydrate thereof having inhibitory activity against tau protein kinase 1: wherein R1 represents a C1-C12 alkyl group which may be substituted; R represents, for example, a group represented by the following formula (II): wherein R2 and R3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a C1-C8 alkyl group; R4 represents a benzene ring which may be substituted, a naphthalene ring which may be substituted, an indan ring which may be substituted, a tetrahydronaphthalene ring which may be substituted, or an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring having 1 to 4 hetero atoms selected from the group consisting of oxygen atom, sulfur atom and nitrogen atom, and having 5 to 10 ring-constituting atoms in total.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quinobenzoxazines analogs having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs thereof; wherein A, U, W, X, Z, B, L, R1, R3, R4 and R5 are substituents. The present invention also relates to methods for using such compounds.

Abstract: HIV inhibitory compounds of formula: salts and stereoisomers thereof, wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-10alkyl; R3 is n is 1, 2 or 3; R3a is nitro, cyano, amino, halo, hydroxy, C1-4alkyloxy, hydroxycarbonyl, aminocarbonyl, CI 4alkyloxycarbonyl, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)aminocarbonyl, C1-4alkylcarbonyl, methanimidamidyl, mono- or di(C1-4alkyl)methanimidamidyl, N-hydroxy-methanimidamidyl or Het; or R3 is a monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic heterocyclic ring system, wherein one, two, three or four ring members are nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, and wherein the remaining ring members are carbon atoms; and wherein each of said heterocyclic ring systems may optionally be substituted; X is —NR7—, —0— or —S—; pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods for preparing these compounds and compositions.

Abstract: This invention provides methods of preserving, improving, or restoring cognitive function in mammal having one or more mutations in the FMR1 gene (e.g. at risk for or having fragile x syndrome), where the methods involve the brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) level or activity in the brain of said mammal. In certain embodiments the methods involve administering one or more AMPA potentiators (e.g., ampakines) to the mammal in an amount sufficient to increase BDNF levels in the brain of the mammal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for ameliorating a cell proliferative disorder using quinobenzoxazines analogs having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs thereof; wherein A, U, V, W, X and Z are substituents.

Abstract: A molecule for labeling a target material is provided including two transition-metal chelates and a detectable group. The molecule has the general structural formula (I): wherein: (a) Y and Y? are each a transition metal, (b) R1 and R1? are each independently CH(COO?), CH(COOH), or absent; (c) R2 and R2? are linkers each having a length of from about 3.0 to about 20 ?; and (d) X is a detectable group. The linkers may be linear or branched, may contain aromatic moieties, and may optionally be further substituted. Methods of using the molecules of the invention as probes in detecting and analyzing target materials as well as kits including the molecule of the invention are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quinobenzoxazines analogs having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs thereof; wherein A, U, V, W, X and Z are substituents. The present invention also relates to methods for using such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention features rifamycin analogs that can be used as therapeutics for treating or preventing a variety of microbial infections. In one form, the analogs are acetylated at the 25-position, as is rifamycin. In another form, the analogs are deacetylated at the 25-position. In yet other forms, benzoxazinorifamycin, benzthiazinorifamycin, and benzdiazinorifamycin analogs are derivatized at various positions of the benzene ring, including 3?-hydroxy analogs, 4?- and/or 6? halo and/or alkoxy analogs, and various 5? substituents that incorporate a cyclic amine moiety.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quinobenzoxazines analogs having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs thereof; wherein A, U, V, W, X and Z are substituents. The present invention also relates to methods for using such compounds.

Abstract: A compound selected from those of formula (I): wherein: W1, with the carbon atoms to which it is bonded, represents phenyl or pyridyl, Z represents a group selected from hydrogen, halogen, linear or branched (C1-C6)alkyl, aryl, aryl-(C1-C6)alkyl, aryloxy, aryl-(C1-C6)alkoxy, hydroxy and linear or branched (C1-C6)alkoxy, R1 is as defined in the description, R2 represents hydrogen or —CH2CH2O—R8, R3 and R4 each represents hydrogen, linear or branched (C1-C6)alkyl, aryl or aryl-(C1-C6)alkyl, n represents an integer of from 1 to 6 inclusive, its isomers, and addition salts thereof with a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base, and medicinal products containing the same which are useful in the treatment of cancer.

Abstract: A method for accelerating cutaneous barrier recovery and a method for preventing epidermal hyperplasia by inhibiting production of Nitric Oxide by an epidermal cell are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the following structure, wherein R1, R2, R4, R4?, R6, R7, and R15 are defined above: These compounds are useful in treating neurological disorders or complications due to stroke or head injury; benign or malignant neoplastic disease, carcinomas and adenocarcinomas; proliferative disorders; and inflammatory disorders. The compounds are therefore useful as neuroprotective and neuroregenerative, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory agents.

Abstract: New thiol and disulfide-containing maytansinoids bearing a mono or di-alkyl substitution on the ?-carbon atom bearing the sulfur atom are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for the synthesis of these new maytansinoids and methods for the linkage of these new maytansinoids to cell-binding agents. The maytansinoid-cell-binding agent conjugates are useful as therapeutic agents, which are delivered specifically to target cells and are cytotoxic. These conjugates display vastly improved therapeutic efficacy in animal tumor models compared to the previously described agents.

Abstract: The present invention features rifamycin analogs that can be used as therapeutics for treating or preventing a variety of microbial infections. In one form, the analogs are acetylated at the 25-position, as is rifamycin. In another form, the analogs are deacetylated at the 25-position. In yet other forms, benzoxazinorifamycin, benzthiazinorifamycin, and benzdiazinorifamycin analogs are derivatized at various positions of the benzene ring, including 3?-hydroxy analogs, 4?- and/or 6? halo and/or alkoxy analogs, and various 5? substituents that incorporate a cyclic amine moiety.

Abstract: The invention concerns substituted amino isoxazoline derivatives, more in particular tricyclic dihydrobenzopyranoisoxazoline, dihydroquinolinoisozazoline, dihydronaphthalenoisoxazoline and dihydrobenzothiopyranoisoxazoline derivatives substituted on the phenylpart of the tricyclic moiety with primary, secondary and/or tertiary amino groups, according to Formula (I) wherein X=CH2, N—R7, S or O, R1, R2 and R3 are certain specific substituents, with the proviso that at least one of R1 and R2 is an amino radical of formula N—R10R11 wherein R10 and R11 are each a variety of radicals, Pir is an optionally substituted piperidyl or piperazyl radical and R3 represents an optionally substituted aromatic homocyclic or heterocyclic ring system including a partially or completely hydrogenated hydrocarbon chain of maximum 6 atoms long with which the ring system is attached to the Pir radical and which may contain one or more heteroatoms selected from the group of O, N and S; a process for their preparation, pharmaceuti

Abstract: The current invention relates to a series of rifamycin derivatives having antimicrobial activities, including activities against drug-resistant microorganisms, specifically, the 3,4-cyclo-rifamycin derivatives having an oxime group at the C-11 position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pharmacophore model for antimalarial activity and methods of making and using thereof. The pharmacophore comprises two hydrogen bond acceptor (lipid) functions and two hydrophobic (aromatic) functions. The pharmacophore model was made using a test set of tryptanthrin compounds which exhibit antimalarial activity. Also disclosed are tryptanthrin compounds having greater solubility and bioactivity as compared to prior art tryptanthrin compounds and methods of making and using thereof. Also disclosed are methods of treating malaria in a subject.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds useful for treating addictive behavior and sleep disorders represented by structural Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, wherein R1, R5, R6a, R6b, R7, R8, R9, X, b, k, m, and n, and the dashed lines are described herein. The compounds used in the method of treatment of this invention are serotonin agonists and antagonists and are useful in the control or prevention of central nervous system disorders including addictive behavior and sleep disorders.

Abstract: The present invention features rifamycin analogs that can be used as therapeutics for treating or preventing a variety of microbial infections. In one form, the analogs are acetylated at the 25-position, as is rifamycin. In another form, the analogs are deacetylated at the 25-position. In yet other forms, benzoxazinorifamycin, benzthiazinorifamycin, and benzdiazinorifamycin analogs are derivatized at various positions of the benzene ring, including 3?-hydroxy analogs, and/or various fused ring systems with the benzene ring at the 4?,5? or 5?,6? positions.

Abstract: The invention relates to insecticidal mixtures for protecting plants against attack by pests comprising (a) compounds of the formula (I) ?in which W, X, Y, Z, A, B, D and G are each as defined in the disclosure, and (b) specified agonists or antagonists of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quinobenzoxazines analogs having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and prodrugs thereof; wherein A, U, V, W, X and Z are substituents. The present invention also relates to methods for using such compounds.

Abstract: The invention features sulfhydryl rifamycin compositions, methods of making these compositions, and methods for treating disease using these compositions.

Abstract: Selective inhibitors of cGMP-specific PDE, and use of the compounds and salts and solvates thereof as therapeutic agents, are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention refers to new products generated by the conjugation of flavanols with molecules that contain the thiol group. New molecules are obtained from polyphenolic plant extracts rich in oligomeric and polymeric procyanidines and prodelfinidins. In this way, new products are generated with antioxidant properties for application as protective agents for the organism against disorders such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases and premature aging. The invention also refers to obtaining these new agents from waste material generated by the agroalimentary industry. Since these waste materials are highly complex mixtures a simple and effective method is described to isolate and purify these, based on the physico-chemical characteristics of the new molecules.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6, have any of the values defined in the specification, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The invention also provides therapeutic methods as well as processes and intermediates useful for preparing compounds of Formula (I). The compounds are 5-HT ligands and are useful for treating diseases wherein modulation of 5-HT2C activity is desired.

Abstract: A molecule for labeling a target material is provided including two transition-metal chelates and a detectable group. The molecule has the general structural formula (I): wherein: (a) Y and Y? are each a transition metal, (b) R1 and R1? are each independently CH(COO?), CH(COOH), or absent; (c) R2 and R2? are linkers each having a length of from about 3.0 to about 20 ?; and (d) X is a detectable group. The linkers may be linear or branched, may contain aromatic moieties, and may optionally be further substituted. Methods of using the molecules of the invention as probes in detecting and analyzing target materials as well as kits including the molecule of the invention are also provided.

Abstract: The invention features compounds that act as antimicrobial agents and/or antimicrobial enhancer agents, compositions that include the antimicrobial enhancer agents of the invention, and methods for treating microbial infections using those compositions.

Abstract: Imidazole compounds of the formula I in which R1 and R2, independently of one another, each denote A1, OA1, SA1 or Hal, A1 denotes H, A, alkenyl, cycloalkyl or alkylenecycloalkyl, A denotes alkyl having 1-10 carbon atoms, Hal denotes F, Cl, Br or I, and X denotes O, S, SO or SO2, and their physiologically acceptable salts and/or solvates, as phosphodiesterase VII inhibitors, and their use for the preparation of a medicament.