Abstract: A compressed chewing gum tablet includes at least one compressed chewing gum module, the at least one compressed chewing gum module including a compressed particulate chewing gum composition, which compressed particulate chewing gum composition includes compressed chewing gum particles containing gum base. The content of gum base is at least 5% by weight of the tablet, the chewing gum tablet is provided with a film coating, and the film coating includes liquid flavoring.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of treating a seizure disorder by administering to a patient in need of such treatment a compound having the following formula:

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a compound of the formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and use of such compounds for treating proliferative diseases such as cancer, in mammals.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of treating disorders of gastrointestinal motility by administering to a patient in need of such treatment a compound having the following formula:

Abstract: We have identified classes of kallikrein inhibitors as compounds that are useful in the reduction of vascular permeability (e.g., retinal vascular permeability and cerebral vascular permeability) and astrocyte activation. Diseases and conditions associated with increased vascular permeability include diabetic retinopathy, hemorrhagic stroke, and macular edema. Diseases and conditions associated with astrocyte activation include Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, stroke, epilepsy, and brain trauma.

Abstract: The present invention relates to 1-alkyl-3-aniline-5-aryl-pyrazole derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, according to Formula (I). The invention particularly relates to positive allosteric modulators of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, such positive allosteric modulator having the capability to increase the efficacy of nicotinic receptor agonists.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, esters, and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, ring A, and Z are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of preparing compounds of Formula I and methods of use compounds of Formula I in treating pathologic conditions or disorders mediated wholly or in part by deacetylases.

Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is C1-4 alkyl useful in the treatment of diseases and conditions for which antagonism of NK1 receptor is beneficial.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel carboxamide compounds of the formula I and their use for the manufacture of a medicament. The carboxamide compounds are prodrugs of inhibitors of calpain (calcium dependant cysteine proteases). The invention therefore also relates to the use of these carboxamide compounds for treating a disorder associated with an elevated calpain activity.

Abstract: Pegylated pyridinium and thiazolium compounds and methods of their use in medicine, research, industry, agriculture and recreational activities are disclosed. The present invention also provides methods of controlling microbial growth and infection. Additionally, the present invention provides methods of controlling microbial infestations relating to industrial and agricultural uses. The present invention can also be used to control insects.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel compounds of Formula I. The compounds of the present invention are potent tyrosine kinase modulators, and are suitable for the treatment and prevention of diseases and conditions related to abnormal activities of tyrosine kinase receptors.

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 1.0 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.

Abstract: Compositions containing neurogenic agents for inhibition of neuron death and inducing proliferation of neural cells are disclosed

Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds of the invention pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are useful for the therapeutic treatment of diseases associated with the modulation or inhibition of 11?-HSD1 in mammals. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions of the novel compounds and methods for their use in the reduction or control of the production of cortisol in a cell or the inhibition of the conversion of cortisone to cortisol in a cell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds and methods for imaging translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) expression in a subject. This invention also relates to compounds and methods for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, inflammation or anxiety in a subject.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) in which the substituents are as defined in claim 1 are suitable for use as microbiocides.

Abstract: A drug for sedating a patient, and especially a smoker, during eye surgery. The drug includes a sedative such as midazolam in a mix with nicotine. The mixture is injected into the patient prior to the eye surgery.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel 2-pyrrolidinyl-3-amido-6-amino-pyridine derivatives having medical utility, to use of the 2-pyrrolidinyl-3-amido-6-amino-pyridine derivatives of the invention for the manufacture of a medicament, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the 2-pyrrolidinyl-3-amido-6-amino-pyridine derivatives of the invention, and to methods of treating a disorder, disease or a condition of a subject, which disorder, disease or condition is responsive to activation of Kv7 channels.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an iminopyridine derivative compound having an ?1D adrenergic receptor antagonistic action, which is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of a lower urinary tract disease and the like. The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination, such as a combined preparation or pharmaceutical composition comprising: (a) compound of formula (I), and/or (II) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; (b) at least one therapeutic agent selected from the group consisting of: an antihypertensive agent; an antidiabetics agent; a hypolipidemic agent; an antiplatelet agent; an antiobesity agent; an antithrombotic agent; an agent for diabetic vascular complications; and an agent for treatment of heart failure; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, optionally in presence of a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for separate, simultaneous or sequential use. The present invention also relates to a use of such combination for the treatment of mammal including human being. R1, R2, R3, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X, Y, A and B and m are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A proton pump inhibitor containing a compound represented by the formula (I) wherein X and Y are the same or different and each is a bond or a spacer having 1 to 20 carbon atoms in the main chain, R1 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, an optionally substituted thienyl group, an optionally substituted benzo[b]thienyl group, an optionally substituted furyl group, an optionally substituted pyridyl group, an optionally substituted pyrazolyl group, an optionally substituted pyrimidinyl group, an acyl group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a nitro group, R5 and R6 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, which has a superior proton pump action and shows an antiulcer activity and the like after conversion to a proton pump inhibitor in the body, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: CB-1 receptor inverse agonist compounds of Formula and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of obesity or cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having the structure useful as potassium channel inhibitors to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the following formula 1, pharmaceutically acceptable salt and isomer thereof effective as agonist of melanocortin receptor, and an agonistic composition of melanocortin receptor comprising the same as active ingredient.

Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (I) is contained as an active ingredient: wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or the like, or R1 together with a nitrogen atom to which L, Z2 and R1 are attached may form an aliphatic nitrogenated heterocyclic group and R1 and R2 together with a nitrogen atom to which they are attached may form an aliphatic nitrogenated heterocyclic group; X represents a methine group or a nitrogen atom; Y represents —CH2—O—, —CH?CH— or the like; Z1 represents a single bond, a C1-4 alkylene group or the like; Z2 represents a single bond or a C1-4 alkylene group; L represents a methylene group, a C3-8 cycloalkylene group or the like; and Ar represents an aromatic carbocyclic group or the like. The compound is useful as a pharmaceutical for a central nerves system disease, a cardiovascular disease or a metabolic disease.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pharmaceutical composition comprising a cholinesterase inhibitor and compound of the following formula: The composition is effective for treating cognitive disorders, and methods of treating such disorders using the composition are also disclosed.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for preventing or treating schizophrenia or the like, wherein the compound of the present invention has GPRS2 agonist activity.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of formula I and tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are selective inhibitors of JAK. The present invention is also directed to intermediates used in making such compounds, the preparation of such a compound, pharmaceutical compositions containing such a compound, methods of inhibition JAK activity, and methods to prevent or treat a number of conditions mediated at least in part by JAK activity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I) which are useful for treating conditions associated with mGluR3 receptors, such as depression, schizophrenia and migraine, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel arylpyrroline compounds of formula (I) which having excellent insecticidal activity and which can thus be used as an insecticide is provided.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein a, b, c, d, m, n, p, s, t, Ar1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R6, R7, R8, and W are as defined in the specification. The compounds of formula I are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat pulmonary disorders.

Abstract: The present invention provides active compounds for modulating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and methods of making the same. The methods of preparing the active compounds utilize different intermediate compounds.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to HIF-1? prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors, compositions which comprise the HIF-1? prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors described herein and to methods for controlling, inter alia, Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), heart failure, ischemia, and anemia.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to HIF-1? prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors, compositions which comprise the HIF-1? prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors described herein and to methods for controlling, inter alia, Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), heart failure, ischemia, and anemia.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a carbon nanotube comprising positive and/or negative charges, the charges being carried by at least one charge-carrying group, the charge carrying group being covalently bound to the surface of the carbon nanotube, for the manufacture of a complex between the carbon nanotube and at least one charged molecule, the bond between the carbon nanotube and the charged molecule being essentially electrostatic, and the charged molecule comprising at least one negative charge if the carbon nanotube comprises positive charges and/or at least one positive charge if the carbon nanotube comprises negative charges.

Abstract: This present invention relates to novel compounds, isomer thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as vanilloid receptor (Vanilloid Receptor 1; VR1; TRPV1) antagonist; and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a disease such as pain, migraine, arthralgia, neuralgia, neuropathies, nerve injury, skin disorder, urinary bladder hypersensitiveness, irritable bowel syndrome, fecal urgency, a respiratory disorder, irritation of skin, eye or mucous membrane, stomach-duodenal ulcer, inflammatory diseases, ear disease, heart disease and so on.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein a, b, c, d, m, n, p, r, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and W are as defined in the specification. The compounds of formula I are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat pulmonary disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of 4-carboxybenzylamino derivatives. The 4-carboxybenzylamino compounds can be used to treat cancer. The 4-carboxybenzylamino compounds can also inhibit histone deacetylase and are suitable for use in selectively inducing terminal differentiation, and arresting cell growth and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the compounds of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The compounds of the invention may also be useful in the prevention and treatment of TRX-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases.

Abstract: The invention provides a pharmaceutical combination comprising: a) compounds that inhibit the binding of the Smac protein to IAPs; and b) a taxane, and a method for treating or preventing a proliferative disease using such a combination.

Abstract: A renin inhibitor comprising a compound represented by the formula: wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof or a prodrug thereof. The compound of the present invention has a superior renin inhibitory activity, and thus is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of hypertension, various organ damages attributable to hypertension and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel analogs of choline and methods of use or treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and/or conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington disease, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, Friedrich's ataxia, Pick's disease, Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome, Refsom's disease, retinal degeneration, Cruetzfelt-Jacob syndrome or prion disease (mad cow disease), dementia with Lewy bodies, schizophrenia, paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration and neurodegenerative conditions caused by stroke. The present compounds are effective to treat any neurological condition where acetylcholine transmission neurons and their target cells are affected.

Abstract: Antibacterial compounds of formula I are provided: As well as stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and prodrugs thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of treating bacterial infections by the administration of such compounds; and processes for the preparation of the compounds.

Abstract: A method to predict which patients will respond to a IAP inhibiting compound comprising: a) administering an IAP inhibitor compound to a patient, and b) measuring TNF-? or IL-? levels.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula (I). The invention also relates to the use of a compound of the formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a medical disorder susceptible to treatment with a dopamine D3 receptor ligand. The invention also relates to the use of a compound of the formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a medical disorder susceptible to treatment with a dopamine D3 receptor ligand.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein a, b, c, m, p, s, t, W, Ar1, X1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R6, and R7 are as defined in the specification. The compounds of formula I are muscarinic receptor antagonists. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat pulmonary disorders.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I) are effective in the treatment of a microbial infection.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a series of novel compounds having the formula (I) wherein: X is NR3 or O; n is 1 or 2; A is a bicyclic carbocycle and R1 and R2 are as described herein. The compounds are useful as DPP-IV inhibitors, such as for the treatment of diabetes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nitro-containing heterocyclic or ring-opening nitrogenous compounds of formula (A), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, Y, Z, and W are as defined in the specification. The present invention discloses the preparation and the uses of a novel insecticide. Said compound and the derivatives thereof have high insecticidal activity to farm insects including homoptera and Lepidoptera pests, such as aphis, fulgorides, aleyrodids, leafhopper, commom thrips, cotton bollworm, cabbage caterpillar, cabbage moth, cotton leafworm, armyworn and so on.

Abstract: a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof: wherein X and Y are independently NR5 or O; W and Z are independently a bond or (CH2)mCH(R7)(CH2)n; m=0-1, n=0-2; R is hydrogen or halogen; R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen halogen, CF3, CN, OR8, NR9R10, NR9COR11, NR9SO2R11 or C1-6 alkyl optionally substituted by hydroxyl, C1-6 alkoxy or NR9R10; R3 is hydrogen, halogen, CF3, CN, OR8, SR8 or SO2R11; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, CF3, OR9, NR9R10, NR9COR11, NR9SO2R11 or C1-6 alkyl optionally substituted by hydroxyl, C1-6 alkoxy or NR9R10; R5 is hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl optionally substituted by hydroxyl, C1-6 alkoxy or NR9R10; R6 is hydrogen, fluorine, C1-6 alkyl, or C1-6 alkoxy; R6 is hydrogen, fluorine, C1-6 alkyl, or C1-6 alkoxy; R7 is hydrogen, C1-6 alkyl, phenyl or C1-3 alkylphenyl wherein said phenyl groups are optionally substituted by one or more substituents selected from halogen, C1-6 alkyl, CF3, OCF3 or OR9; R8 is hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl optionally substitut

Abstract: The present invention features methods for recruitment of bone marrow-derived stem cells (e.g., endothelial cell precursors, hematopoietic stem cells) by administration of nicotine or other nicotine receptor agonist. The methods of the invention can be used in, for example, treatment of conditions amenable to treatment by recruitment of bone marrow-derived stem cells (e.g., neutropenia).