The Additional Hetero Ring Consists Of One Nitrogen And Four Carbons (e.g., Nicotine, Etc.) Patents (Class 514/343)
  • Publication number: 20120022114
    Abstract: A composition for administration to the nasal mucosa of a subject comprises a solution of nicotine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in a pharmaceutically acceptable solvent. The composition has a nicotine concentration less than 0.08 mg/ml. The composition used alone assists in reduction of the desire of a subject to smoke tobacco. It also reduces the nasal symptoms associated with administration of higher concentrations of nicotine to the nasal mucosa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Laboratorio Pablo Cassara S.R.L.
    Inventors: Jorge Alberto Cassara, Julio Cesar Vega
  • Publication number: 20120022075
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof having superior glucokinase activating activity, and is a compound represented by general formula (I), or pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: [wherein, A represents, for example, an oxygen atom or sulfur atom, R1 represents, for example, a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C1-C6 alkoxy group or a C1-C6 halogenated alkyl group, A and R1 together with the carbon atom bonded thereto form a heterocyclic group that may be substituted with 1 to 3 group(s) independently selected from Substituent Group ?, R2 represents a phenyl group that may be substituted with 1 to 5 group(s) independently selected from Substituent Group ? or a heterocyclic group that may be substituted with 1 to 3 group(s) independently selected from Substituent Group ?, R3 represents a hydroxy group or a C1-C6 alkoxy group, and Substituent Group ? consists of, for example, a halogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C1-C6 alkyl group substituted with 1 or 2 hyd
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Akihiro FURUKAWA, Takehiro FUKUZAKI, Yukari ONISHI, Hideki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi HONDA, Yumi MATSUI, Masahiro KONISHI, Kenjiro UEDA, Tetsuyoshi MATSUFUJI
  • Publication number: 20120017924
    Abstract: A coated chewing gum product for the delivering of nicotine in any form to a subject by a rapid transmucosal uptake in the oral cavity comprising at least one gum core, nicotine in any form and/or a nicotine mimicking agent, at least one coating layer and optionally at least one or more other additive, wherein said at last one coating layer is buffered. Also contemplated is a method for the delivering of nicotine in any form, a method for the reduction of the urge to smoke or use tobacco as well as a method for producing said coated chewing gum and the use of the same form obtaining a quick transmucosal uptake of the nicotine in the oral cavity of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: McNeil AB
    Inventors: Katarina E.A. Lindell, Nils-Olof Lindberg, Roland Olsson
  • Publication number: 20120015983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (R)-3-((E)-2-(pyrrolidin-3-yl)vinyl)-5-(tetrahydropyran-4-yloxy)pyridine, its salt forms, and to processes for the commercial-scale production of these compounds in sufficient purity and quality for use in pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
  • Publication number: 20120010127
    Abstract: In part, the present invention is directed to compositions comprising a FabI inhibitor and at least one other bioactive agent. In another part, the present invention is directed to antibacterial compositions comprising a compound of formulas I-III and at least one other antibacterial agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: JUDD M. BERMAN, MOLLY B. SCHMID, JOHN D. MENDLEIN, NACHUM KAPLAN
  • Publication number: 20120010183
    Abstract: The invention relates to sulfonamide derivatives, to their use in medicine, to compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation and to intermediates used in such processes. More particularly the invention relates to a new sulfonamide Nav1.7 inhibitors of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Het1, X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the description. Nav 1.7 inhibitors are potentially useful in the treatment of a wide range of disorders, particularly pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: PFIZER LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Simon Bell, Alan Daniel Brown, Marcel John De Groot, Russell Andrew Lewthwaite, Ian Roger Marsh, David Simon Millan, Manuel Perez Pacheco, David James Rawson, Nunzio Sciammetta, Robert Ian Storer, Nigel Alan Swain, Steven Matthieu Gaulier
  • Publication number: 20120010172
    Abstract: The present application discloses compounds of formula (I) wherein X is ?O, ?S, ?NH, ?NOH and ?NO-Me; A is —C(?O)—, —S(?O)2—, —C(?S)— and P(?O)(R5)—; B is, —O—, —(CH2)3-6—, and O—(CH2)2-5—; D is, —O—, —CR7R8— and —NR9; m is 0-12, n is 0-12, m+n is 1-20; p is 0-4; R1 is opt.sub. heteroaryl; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and prodrugs thereof. The application also discloses the compound for use as a medicament for the treatment of a disease or a condition caused by an elevated level of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPRT), e.g. inflammatory and tissue repair disorders; dermatosis; autoimmune diseases, Alzheimers disease, stroke, athersclerosis, restenosis, diabetes, glomerulonephritis, cancer, cachexia, inflammation associated with infection and certain viral infections, including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), adult respiratory distress syndrome, ataxia telengiectasia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: McDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP
    Inventors: Mette Knak Christensen, Fredrik Bjorkling
  • Publication number: 20120010212
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula wherein A is defined herein or to pharmaceutically active salts, stereoisomeric forms, including individual diastereoisomers and enantiomers of the compound of formula I as well as racemic and non-racemic mixtures thereof. The present compounds are high potential NK-3 receptor antagonists for the treatment of depression, pain, psychosis, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Nettekoven, Hasane Ratni, Walter Vifian
  • Publication number: 20120010185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of general formula I wherein the groups and radicals B, k, L, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, R1, R2, have the meanings given in claim 1. Moreover the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one compound according to the invention. By virtue of their MCH-receptor antagonistic activity the pharmaceutical compositions according to the invention are suitable for the treatment of metabolic disorders and/or eating disorders, particularly obesity, bulimia, anorexia, hyperphagia and diabetes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk STENKAMP, Stephan Georg MUELLER, Gerald Juergen ROTH, Joerg KLEY, Klaus RUDOLF, Armin HECKEL, Marcus SCHINDLER, Ralf LOTZ, Thorsten LEHMANN-LINTZ
  • Publication number: 20120004244
    Abstract: There is provided compounds of formula I, wherein E1, E2a, E2b, E2c, E4, D1, D2, D3, L1, Y1, L2 and Y2 have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of leukotriene C4 synthase is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of a respiratory disorder and/or inflammation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: BIOLIPOX AB
    Inventors: Peter Nilsson, Benjamin Pelcman, Martins Katkevics
  • Publication number: 20120003158
    Abstract: The present invention provides various biomarkers of inflammatory bowel disease, including biomarkers for Crohn's disease and biomarkers for Ulcerative colitis. The present invention also provides various methods of using the biomarkers, including methods for diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, methods for distinguishing between inflammatory bowel diseases, methods of determining predisposition to inflammatory bowel disease, methods of monitoring progression/regression of inflammatory bowel disease, methods of assessing efficacy of compositions for treating inflammatory bowel disease, methods of screening compositions for activity in modulating biomarkers of inflammatory bowel disease, methods of treating inflammatory bowel disease, as well as other methods based on biomarkers of inflammatory bowel disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Danny ALEXANDER, Jeffrey SHUSTER, Joshua KORZENIK, Garrett ZELLA
  • Publication number: 20110318390
    Abstract: A bioactive dose for delivering a bioactive agent to a mammal includes a solid bioactive dosage unit containing at least one bioactive agent and a rapid release coating provided on at least one outer surface of the solid bioactive dosage unit. The rapid release coating contains a material having a property of rapidly modulating a pH of bodily fluids in which the material comes in contact in a direction towards a pKa of the at least one bioactive agent and prior to the action of any buffer system internal to the dosage unit. In another embodiment, e.g., to aid oral quick dissolve forms in which it is not desirable to absorb the bioactive in the mouth, the rapid release coating contains a material having a property of rapidly modulating a pH of bodily fluids in which the material comes in contact in a direction away from a pKa of the at least one bioactive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Richard C. Fuisz, Joseph M. Fuisz
  • Publication number: 20110318391
    Abstract: A bioactive dose for delivering a bioactive agent to a mammal, includes a solid bioactive dosage unit containing at least one bioactive agent and a rapid release coating provided on at least one outer surface of the solid bioactive dosage unit, the rapid release coating containing a material having a property of rapidly modulating a pH of bodily fluids in which the material comes in contact in a direction towards an ideal absorptive pH or towards an ideal pH to hinder absorption of the at least one bioactive agent given the pKa that least at one bioactive agent. A modified liquid that is administered prior to, contemporaneous with, or following the delivery of a bioactive agent is also described. The liquid includes a pH modifier selected to control the pH of the liquid to a predetermined range so that the modified liquid rapidly modulates the pH of bodily fluids to enhance or hinder absorption of the bioactive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Richard C. Fuisz, Joseph M. Fuisz
  • Publication number: 20110318359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of reducing blood pressure in a subject by administering a plasma kallikrein inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Edward P. Feener, Allen Clermont
  • Patent number: 8084454
    Abstract: Novel substituted azole diones are provided that kill cells, suppress cell proliferation, suppress cell growth, abrogate the cell cycle G2 checkpoint and/or cause adaptation to G2 cell cycle arrest. Methods of making and using the invention compounds are provided. The invention provides substituted azole diones to treat cell proliferation disorders. The invention includes the use of substituted azole diones to selectively kill or suppress cancer cells without additional anti-cancer treatment. The invention includes the use of cell cycle G2-checkpoint-abrogating substituted azole diones to selectively sensitize cancer cells to DNA damaging reagents, treatments and/or other types of anti-cancer reagents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canbas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi Kawabe, Machiyo Ishigaki, Takuji Sato, Sayaka Yamamoto, Yoko Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20110312930
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel aryl compounds with aminoalkyl substituents, to processes for their preparation, to their use for treatment and/or prevention of diseases and to their use for the preparation of medicaments for treatment and/or prevention of diseases, in particular for treatment and/or prevention of hyperproliferative and angiogenic diseases and those diseases which arise from metabolic adaptation to hypoxic states. Such treatments can be carried out as monotherapy or also in combination with other medicaments or further therapeutic measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: BAYER SCHERING PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Härter, Hartmut Beck, Peter Ellinghaus, Kerstin Berhörster, Susanne Greschat, Karl-Heinz Thierauch
  • Publication number: 20110312953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel anthranilic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, Qx, A, Qy and n have the meanings given in the description, to their use as insecticides and acaricides for controlling animal pests, also in combination with other agents for activity boosting, and to a plurality of processes for their preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG
    Inventors: Rùdiger FISCHER, Christoph GRONDAL, Markus HEIL, Heinz-Juergen WROBLOWSKY, Ernst Rudolf GESING, Arnd VOERSTE, Ulrich GÖGENS
  • Publication number: 20110312958
    Abstract: Compounds of the present invention, and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, are useful as modulators of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (“CFTR”). The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using compounds of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sara S. Hadida Ruah, Matthew Hamilton, Mark Miller, Peter D.J. Grootenhuis, Brian Bear, Jason McCartney, Jinglan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20110312974
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are antagonists of PGD2 receptors. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such antagonists of PGD2 receptors, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating respiratory, cardiovascular, and other PGD2-dependent or PGD2-mediated conditions or diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: AMIRA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: John Howard Hutchinson, Brian Andrew Stearns, Nicholas Simone Stock, Yen Pham Truong, Jeffrey Roger Roppe, Deborah Volkots, Jill Melissa Scott, Timothy Andrew Parr, Bowei Wang, Thomas Jon Seiders, Ryan Clark, Heather Renee Coate
  • Publication number: 20110306547
    Abstract: A method of treating infertility disorders by 1) administering an LH-RH antagonist, preferably Cetrorelix, in amounts to selectively suppress endogenous LH but not FSH secretion and 2) inducing follicle growth by administration of exogenous gonadotropin. The selective suppression OF LH allows FSH secretion to be at natural level S thereby not affecting individual estrogen development. The LH-RH antagonist can be given as a single or dual subcutaneous dose in the range of 1 mg to 10 mg, preferably 2 mg-6 mg. In multiple dosing posology, LH-RH antagonist can be administered subcutaneously in an amount in the range of 0.1 to 0.5 mg of LH-RH antagonist/day . LH-RH antagonist is applied starting cycle day 1 to 10, preferably on day 4 to 8, and ovulation can be induced between day 9 and 20 of the menstruation cycle by administering rec. LH, native LH-RH, LH-RH agonist or by HCG. In addition rec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Zentaris GmbH
    Inventors: PHILIPPE BOUCHARD, Rene Frydman, Paul Devroey, Klaus Diedrich, Jürgen Engel
  • Patent number: 8075902
    Abstract: New devices and methods for diagnosis and compositions and methods for treatment of cancers use combinations of antimicrobial agents and agents that can reverse dormancy and hibernation pathways. We unexpectedly found that surprisingly low doses of anti-hibernation compounds can substantially inhibit cancer cell growth in vitro and can successfully treat cancers, including metastatic cancer. We also unexpectedly found that antimicrobial agents and anti-HDS compounds together can increase the degree of inhibition of cancer cell growth in a synergistic fashion. We conclude that combination therapy with antimicrobial agents and anti-HDS compounds can be effective in treating human patients with cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Powell
  • Publication number: 20110301152
    Abstract: Nicotine receptor agonists or analogs or derivatives thereof for treating inflammatory pulmonary diseases, and pharmaceutical compositions including nicotine receptor agonists or analogs or derivatives thereof. Compounds of formula wherein R1, R2, Xa and Ya are as defined herein are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE LAVAL
    Inventors: Yvon CORMIER, Evelyne Israel-Assayag, Marie-Renee Blanchet, Rene C. Gaudreault, Philippe Labrie
  • Publication number: 20110301172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination, such as a combined preparation or pharmaceutical composition, respectively, which comprises; 1) a dipeptidylpeptidase-IV (DPP-IV) inhibitor, 2) one antidiabetic selected from thiazolidinediones (glitazones), non-glitazone type PPAR? agonists, PPAR? agonists or dual PPAR?/PPAR? agonists, and 3) metformin, for simultaneous, separate or sequential use, especially in the prevention, delay of progression or treatment of conditions mediated by dipeptidylpeptidase-IV (DPP-IV), in particular diabetes, more particular type 2 diabetes mellitus, conditions of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), conditions of impaired fasting plasma glucose, metabolic acidosis, ketosis, arthritis, obesity and osteoporosis; the use of such combination for the preparation of a pharmaceutical preparation for the prevention, delay of progression or treatment of such conditions; the use of such combination for the cosmetic treatment of a mammal in order to effect a cosmetically beneficial loss of body w
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Bryan Burkey, Thomas Edward Hughes
  • Publication number: 20110301174
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a superior acid secretion inhibitory effect and showing an antiulcer activity and the like. The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R1 is a nitrogen-containing monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally condensed with a benzene ring or a heterocycle, the nitrogen-containing monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally condensed with a benzene ring or a heterocycle optionally has substituent(s), R2 is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted thienyl group or an optionally substituted pyridyl group, R3 and R4 are each a hydrogen atom, or one of R3 and R4 is a hydrogen atom and the other is an optionally substituted lower alkyl pup, an acyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a nitro group, and R5 is an alkyl group or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Kajino, Atsushi Hasuoka, Haruyuki Nishida
  • Publication number: 20110301140
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pyridyl carboxamide compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. 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 orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Bergman, Paul J. Coleman, Mark E. Fraley, Swati P. Mercer, Thomas S. Reger, Anthony J. Roecker, Justin T. Steen
  • Publication number: 20110301173
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a superior acid secretion inhibitory effect and showing an antiulcer activity and the like. The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein R1 is a nitrogen-containing monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally condensed with a benzene ring or a heterocycle, the nitrogen-containing monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally condensed with a benzene ring or a heterocycle optionally has substituent(s), R2 is an optionally substituted C6-14 aryl group, an optionally substituted thienyl group or an optionally substituted pyridyl group, R3 and R4 are each a hydrogen atom, or one of R3 and R4 is a hydrogen atom and the other is an optionally substituted lower alkyl group, an acyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a nitro group, and R5 is an alkyl group or a salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Kajino, Atsushi Hasuoka, Haruyuki Nishida
  • Publication number: 20110300103
    Abstract: Method for treating an HCV infection and inhibiting HCV replication with a compound of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, X1, X2, X3 and X4 and as defined herein
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Roche Palo Alto LLC
    Inventors: Javier de Vicente Fidalgo, Jim Li, Ryan Craig Schoenfeld, Francisco Xavier Talamas, Joshua Paul Gergely Taygerly
  • Publication number: 20110301128
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods for modulating the activity of receptors are provided. In particular compounds and compositions are provided for modulating the activity of receptors and for the treatment, prevention, or amelioration of one or more symptoms of disease or disorder directly or indirectly related to the activity of the receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: EXELIXIS, INC.
    Inventors: Lynne Canne Bannen, Jeff Chen, Lisa Esther Dalrymple, Brenton T. Flatt, Timothy Patrick Forsyth, Xiao-Hui Gu, Morrison B. Mac, Larry W. Mann, Grace Mann, Richard Martin, Raju Mohan, Brett Murphy, Michael Charles Nyman, William C. Stevens, Tie-Lin Wang, Yong Wang, Jason H. Wu
  • Patent number: 8071630
    Abstract: A method of treating an effect of a chemical agent, which agent is characterized by one or more chiral centres, by administering a dilution or an ultra-high dilution or potentised preparation of a stereoisomer of said chemical agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Reinhard Michael Kuzeff
  • Publication number: 20110294794
    Abstract: Methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a low dose of a farnesyl transferase inhibitor useful in the treatment of proteinopathies are provided. These low doses are below the doses used in oncological treatments for which these compounds were initially designed. The treatment includes administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a farnesyl transferase inhibitor, wherein the amount is effective to inhibit the farnesylation of a non-Ras FTase substrate involved in the autophagy pathway without substantially affecting the farnesylation of Ras or other oncology related substrates. Treatments in accordance with the present invention may also include an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, an activator of neurotrophic receptors, an NMDA anatagonist, an amyloid deposit inhibitor, an antipsychotic agent, an antidepressant, an anxiolytic, or an antioxidant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Link Medicine Corporation
    Inventors: Peter T. Lansbury, JR., Craig J. Justman, Tom N. Grammatopoulos, Berkley A. Lynch, Zhihua Liu
  • Publication number: 20110294840
    Abstract: There is provided a hydrazide compound having a controlling effect on pests represented by the formula (1): wherein, G is a 5-membered heterocyclic group, M is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 is independently a nitrogen atom, etc., m is an integer of 0 to 5, R2 is an optionally halogenated C1-C6 alkyl group, etc., R5 and R6 are independently an optionally substituted C1-C12 chain hydrocarbon group, etc., and R4 is an optionally substituted C1-C12 chain hydrocarbon group, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Hideki Ihara, Koji Kumamoto
  • Publication number: 20110294859
    Abstract: The present invention provides salt adducts comprising at least one positively charged moiety being a pyridoxine or a derivative thereof and at least one carboxylated 5- to 7-membered lactam ring, optionally additionally substituted, methods of their preparation, and pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising them. Salt adducts of the invention and compositions comprising them may be used to in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with or inflicted by alcohol consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: ALCOBRA LTD.
    Inventors: Rina Yamin, Dalia Megiddo
  • Patent number: 8067443
    Abstract: Novel vinylazacycloalkane compounds of Formula (I) are disclosed. The compounds are ligands of various nAChRs. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can be used to prepare pharmaceutical compositions and/or medicaments intended to prevent or treat disorders associated with dysfunction of nAChRs, especially within the central nervous system or the gastrointestinal system. Examples of types of disorders that can be treated include neurodegenerative disorders, including central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, cognitive disorders, motor disorders such as Parkinson's disease, drug addiction, behavioral disorders and inflammatory disorders within the gastrointestinal system. The compounds can also serve as analgesics in the treatment of acute, chronic or recurrent pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Targacept, Inc.
    Inventors: Arielle Genevois-Borella, Craig H. Miller
  • Patent number: 8067457
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of general formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein X, n, Y, and R1 are defined generally and in subsets herein. Compounds of the invention are inhibitors of CCR2 and accordingly are useful for the treatment of a variety of inflammatory, allergic, and autoimmune diseases, disorders, or conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Shomir Ghosh, Prakash Raman, Kevin Sprott, Amy M. Elder, Sian Griffiths, Francois Soucy, Qing Ye
  • Publication number: 20110288094
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula where the variables have the meaning defined in the specification have analgesic and/or immunostimulant effect in mammals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: ALLERGAN, INC.
    Inventors: Bertrand Leblond, Eric Beusoleil, Thierry Taverne, John E. Donello
  • Publication number: 20110288132
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nicotine-containing pharmaceutical composition and methods of using the composition in therapies, such as nicotine replacement therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Nils-Olof Lindberg
  • Patent number: 8063078
    Abstract: Certain compounds of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, wherein R1, R2, P, P?, n, p, q, r and s are as defined in the specification, a process for preparing such compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such compounds and the use of such compounds and composition in medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline LLC
    Inventors: Harshad Kantilal Rami, Mervyn Thompson
  • Patent number: 8063068
    Abstract: Novel vinylazacycloalkane compounds of Formula (I) are disclosed. The compounds are ligands of various nAChRs. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can be used to prepare pharmaceutical compositions and/or medicaments intended to prevent or treat disorders associated with dysfunction of nAChRs, especially within the central nervous system or the gastrointestinal system. Examples of types of disorders that can be treated include neurodegenerative disorders, including central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, cognitive disorders, motor disorders such as Parkinson's disease, drug addiction, behavioral disorders and inflammatory disorders within the gastrointestinal system. The compounds can also serve as analgesics in the treatment of acute, chronic or recurrent pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Targacept, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Daniel Schmitt, Gary Maurice Dull, Craig Harrison Miller, Arielle Genevois-Borella, Marc Capet, Michel Cheve
  • Publication number: 20110281875
    Abstract: Novel compounds that inhibit the binding of the Smac protein to Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs) of the formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Mark G. PALERMO, Sushil Kumar SHARMA, Christopher STRAUB, Run-Ming WANG, Leigh ZAWEL, Yanlin ZHANG, Zhuoliang CHEN, Yaping WANG, Fan YANG, Wojciech WRONA, Gang LIU, Mark G. CHAREST, Feng HE
  • Publication number: 20110280925
    Abstract: Provided is a dual-release, dual-adhesiveness flexible thin film dosage form comprising: a quick-release subfilm comprising an admixture of polymer, which comprises predominantly highly water-soluble polymer(s), and a bioactive agent, the polymers and other components of the quick-release subfilm adapted to provide 20 minute or less erodibility for the quick-release subfilm; and laminated against the quick-release subfilm, a sustained-release subfilm comprising an admixture of polymer, which comprises predominantly hydrophilic, bioadhesive polymer(s), and a second bioactive agent, which can be the same as the first, the polymers and other components of the sustained-release subfilm adapted to provide erodibility of 1 hours or more and 20 hours or less for the sustained-release subfilm, the dosage form having a thickness of 30 mil or less, and being more adhesive on the sustained-release side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: BIONEX PHARMACEUTICALS LLC
    Inventors: Hock Seng Tan, Siew Lian Chung
  • Publication number: 20110281823
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation including a pharmacologically effective amount of a combination of active ingredients containing an angiotensin II receptor antagonist, a calcium channel blocker and polyvinyl alcohol, wherein the polyvinyl alcohol is in an amount of 5 to 85% by weight of the total weight of the pharmaceutical preparation. A method for the prophylaxis or treatment of hypertension by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of the pharmaceutical preparation to a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi Hamaura, Mitsuru Kanno
  • Publication number: 20110281871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula wherein R1, R2, X, L, W, n, and o are defined herein and to pharmaceutically suitable acid addition salts thereof, with the exception of the following compounds 6-(4-methyl-piperazin-1-yl)-N-phenethyl-nicotinamide (CAS 199478-31-4), N-(3,4-dichloro-benzyl)-3-fluoro-benzamide (CAS 424815-98-5), N-(4-chloro-benzyl)-3-fluoro-benzamide (CAS 544661-83-8), N-(3-chloro-benzyl)-3-fluoro-benzamide (CAS 796051-07-5), and N-phenethyl-6-phenylamino-nicotinamide (CAS 571913-74-1). The compounds of formula I have a good affinity to the trace amine associated receptors (TAARs), especially for TAAR1 and are useful for the treatment of CNS disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Guido Galley, Katrin Groebke Zbinden, Roger Norcross, Henri Stalder
  • Patent number: 8058475
    Abstract: Novel cyclohexylmethyl compounds corresponding to formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5, have the meanings given in the description. Pharmaceutical formulations containing these compounds, as well as a processes for preparing these compounds and related methods of treatment are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Gruenenthal GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Oberboersch, Beatrix Merla, Bernd Sundermann, Werner Englberger, Hagen-Heinrich Hennies, Achim Kless, Petra Bloms-Funke, Babette-Yvonne Koegel, Heinze Graubaum
  • Publication number: 20110275669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) their derivatives, their analogs, their tautomeric forms, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein all variables are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Cadilla Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Braj Bhushan Lohray, Vidya Bhushan Lohray, Vijay Kumar Barot, Saurin Khimshankar Raval, Preeti Saurin Raval, Sujay Basu
  • Publication number: 20110274740
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of reducing symptoms associated with an abrupt reduction in an endogenous or exogenous chemical in subjects, the methods comprising: (a) administering to the subject a single dosage form comprising an active agent, wherein the release rate of the active agent from the single dosage form tapers throughout the administration; and (b) removing the single dosage form from the subjects after the release rate of the active agent is at or below a terminal symptom threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Charles E. DiLiberti, Anu Mahashabde
  • Publication number: 20110275615
    Abstract: An amide of the formula I and its tautomeric forms, possible enantiomeric and diastereomeric forms, E and Z forms, and possible physiologically tolerated salts, in which the variables have the following meanings: A —(CH2)p—R1, where R1 can be pyrrolidine, morpholine, piperidine, —NR5R6 and and R5, R6 and R7 can, independently of one another, be hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, CH2Ph, Ph, CH2CH2Ph, it also being possible for the phenyl rings to be substituted by R6, and p can be 1 and 2, and B can be phenyl, pyridyl, pyrimidyl and pyridazyl, it also being possible for the rings to be substituted by up to 2 R8 radicals, and D can be a bond, —(CH2)m—, —CH?CH—, —C?C—, and R2 is chlorine, bromine, fluorine, C1-C6-alkyl, NHCO—C1-C4-alkyl, NHSO2—C1-C4-alkyl, NO2, —O—C1-C4-alkyl and NH2, and R3 is —C1-C6-alkyl, branched or unbranched, and which may also carry a phenyl ring, indolyl ring or cyclohexyl ring which is in turn substituted by a maximum of two R8 radicals, where R8 is hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, branched or un
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Hans-Jörg Treiber, Monika Knopp, Wilfried Lubisch, Achim Moeller
  • Publication number: 20110275637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds of formula (I), to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to the use of these compounds as leptin receptor modulator mimetics in the preparation of medicaments against conditions associated with weight gain, type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Emma Chapman, Michael Higginbottom, Viet-Anh Anne Horgan (nee Nguyen), James Horton, Iain Simpson, Charles Tyzack
  • Publication number: 20110275673
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of Formula (I). Compounds of the present invention are inhibitors of sphingosine kinase 3, and are useful in the treatment of various disorders and conditions, such as inflammatory disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Yibin Xiang, Bradford Hirth, John L. Kane, Junkai Liao, Kevin Noson, Christopher Yee
  • Publication number: 20110268809
    Abstract: A composition intended to be employed for therapeutic purposes incorporates a source of nicotine and at least one levulinate moiety. Representative forms of nicotine include free base (e.g., as a mixture of nicotine and microcrystalline cellulose), a nicotine salt (e.g., as nicotine bitartrate) or nicotine polacrilex. The levulinate moiety can have the form of an acid (e.g., levulinic acid), a levulinate salt (e.g., sodium levulinate), or an ester of levulinic acid (e.g., methyl levulinate or ethyl levulinate). The composition can incorporate nicotine and levulinic acid in a salt form (e.g., nicotine levulinate). The composition can be composed of at least two forms of nicotine, and one of the forms of nicotine is in the form of nicotine levulinate. The composition is useful for treatment of central nervous system conditions, diseases, and disorders, and as a nicotine replacement therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Brinkley, August Joseph Borschke
  • Publication number: 20110263564
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel sirtuin-modulating compounds and methods of use thereof. The sirtuin-modulating compounds may be used for increasing the lifespan of a cell, and treating and/or preventing a wide variety of diseases and disorders including, for example, diseases or disorders related to aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, blood clotting disorders, inflammation, cancer, and/or flushing as well as diseases or disorders that would benefit from increased mitochondrial activity. Also provided are compositions comprising a sirtuin-modulating compound in combination with another therapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Radha Narayan, Jeremy S. Disch, Robert B. Perni, Chi B. Vu