Abstract: Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions are contemplated that inhibit N-acyl-ethanolamine-hydrolyzing acid amidase (NAAA) to so increase the concentration of the substrate of NAAA, palmitoylethanolamide (PEA). NAAA inhibition is contemplated to be effective to alleviate conditions associated with a reduced concentration of PEA. Among other uses, various NAAA inhibitors are especially contemplated as therapeutic agents in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

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.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to curcumin analogs exhibiting anti-tumor and anti-angiogenic properties, pharmaceutical formulations including such compounds and methods of using such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means for prevention and treatment of cachexia and other chronic illnesses including but not limited to the promotion of weight gain, reduction or prevention of weight loss by administration of a substance that both reduces the sensitivity of beta-adrenergic receptors and of 5-HT1a receptors. (S)-pindolol, (S)-propranolol, tertatolol or bopindolol are preferred for this purpose.

Abstract: A PLG copolymer material, termed a PLG(p) copolymer material, adapted for use in a controlled release formulation for a bioactive material is provided, wherein the formulation exhibits a reduced “initial burst” effect when introduced into the tissue of a patient in need thereof. A method of preparation of the PLG copolymer material is also provided, as are methods of use.

Abstract: A rodenticidal mixture comprising a) 0.0015 to 99.89% by weight of at least one rodenticide, b) 10?8 to 95% by weight of at least one painkiller and c) 0.01 to 99.9984% by weight of at least one biocide, where the percentages by weight are based on the total of components (a), (b) and (c), is suitable for the preparation of rodenticidal bait formulations which are employed for controlling rodent pests.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound represented by the following formula (I), which has a glucagon antagonistic action and is useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes and the like, a compound represented by wherein ring A is an optionally substituted benzene ring and the like; Y is a nitrogen atom and the like; X is —O— and the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom and the like; R5 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom and the like; R1 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group and the like; R2 is a hydrogen atom and the like; and R3 is —(CH2)3—COOH and the like, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: Compounds of Formulas I-II are described, along with methods of using such compounds for the treatment of cancer and pharmaceutical formulations thereof.

Abstract: Aromatized A-ring derivatives of tetracycline compounds are described.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof. The compound or a salt thereof or a prodrug thereof has a GPR40 receptor function modulating action and is useful as an insulin secretagogue or an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes and the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I). Useful in treating Alzheimer's disease and other similar diseases. These compounds include inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme that are useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases characterized by deposition of A beta peptide in a mammal. The compounds of the invention are useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment to reduce A beta peptide formation.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted amino-thiourea compounds of formula (I), to the enantiomers, diastereomers and salts thereof and to compositions comprising such compounds. The invention also relates to the use of the substituted amino-thiourea compounds, of their salts or of compositions comprising them for combating animal pests. Furthermore the invention relates also to methods of applying such compounds. The substituted amino-thiourea compounds are defined by the following formula (I): wherein A, B, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5.1, R5.2 and R6 are defined as in the description.

Abstract: The use of a pentadienoic acid derivative of formula (I) for the preparation of a medicament for the prevention or treatment of hyperuricemia and/or one or several associated disorders or diseases, and/or for reducing the serum uric acid level of a subject. Medical compositions for these prevention and/or treatment, comprising such a pentadienoic acid derivative.

Abstract: An amide is formed by reacting an ?-ketoacid or salt thereof in a decarboxylative condensation reaction with an amine or salt thereof comprising a nitrogen covalently bound to an atom selected from oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. The amide bond is formed between the ?-carbon of the ketoacid and the nitrogen of the amine. The ?-ketoacid can be formed using a novel sulfur reagent.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, a salt s thereof, and a prodrug thereof of the present invention unexpectedly have a superior GPR40 receptor agonist activity and superior properties as pharmaceutical products such as stability and the like, and can be safe and useful pharmaceutical agents for the prophylaxis or treatment of GPR40 receptor-related pathology or diseases in mammals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula I and therapeutically acceptable salts thereof, their pharmaceutical compositions, processes for making them and their use as therapeutic methods for treatment and/or prevention of various diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new sulfonamide inhibitors of carbonic anhydrase II, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention contemplates methods of treating, reducing, inhibiting or preventing several diseases by the administration of flexible heteroarotinoids. Among the diseases or conditions which can benefit from treatment with flexible heteroarotinoids as described herein are, (1) cancers and other diseases that involve abnormal differentiation, (2) diabetes, (3) hemophelia, (4) liver disease, (5) diseases involving human aldehyde dehydrogenase 2, (6) polycystic kidney disease, (7) lysosomal storage diseases, (8) high cholesterol, (9) obesity, (10) high triglycerides, (11) glycoprotein metabolism diseases, and (12) diseases involving abnormal angiogenesis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound according to formula I, wherein X, A, G, E, R1, R2, R3 are as shown herein; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, N-oxides or solvates hereof. The invention further relates to said compounds for use in therapy, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to methods of treating diseases, e.g. dermal diseases, with said compounds, and to the use of said compounds in the manufacture of medicaments.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for modulating processes mediated by AR and PR. More particularly, the invention relates to nonsteroidal compounds and compositions that are high affinity, high specificity agonists, partial agonists (i.e., partial activators and/or tissue-specific activators) and antagonists for AR and PR. Also provided are methods of making such compounds and pharmaceutical compositions, as well as critical intermediates used in their synthesis.

Abstract: A 1-phenyl 1-thio-D-glucitol compound represented by formula (I) or the like: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a hydrate thereof, or a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the same as an active ingredient is useful as a novel type of prophylactic or therapeutic agent for diabetes, diabetes-related diseases or diabetic complications, which inhibits both SGLT1 and SGLT2 activities to achieve not only suppression of glucose absorption from the digestive tract but also excretion of urinary sugars.

Abstract: Nitroderivatives of dorzolamide and brinzolamide having improved pharmacological activity and enhanced tolerability are described. They can be employed for the treatment of glaucoma, ocular hypertension, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy and retinal vasculopathies.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds of the formula in which all of the variables are as defined in the specification, in free form or in salt form, to their preparation, to their use as medicaments and to medicaments comprising them.

Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (1) or a salt thereof ( represents a single bond, or a double bond; R1 represents hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group; R2 and R3 represent hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group; R4 and R5 represent hydrogen atom, hydroxy group, an alkoxyl group, a halogen atom, or a mono- or di-alkyl-substituted amino group; R6 represents hydrogen atom, cyano group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, or carboxy group; R7 represents one or two of substituents on the benzene ring (the substituents are selected from hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, nitro group, cyano group, hydroxy group, amino group, an alkyl group, and an alkoxyl group); A represents a 5-membered or 6-membered non-aromatic heterocyclic ring containing one or two contiguous sulfur atoms (the sulfur atoms may independently form oxide); W represents oxo group, hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, hydroxy group, an alkoxyl group, or a halogen atom; and X represents oxygen atom, or sulfur atom), or a salt thereof, which has a superior suppressing action

Abstract: This invention provides new compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and diagnostic kits comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for inhibiting NAALADase enzyme activity, detecting diseases where NAALADase levels are altered, inhibiting angiogenesis, effecting a TGF-? activity or a neuronal activity, and treating a glutamate abnormality, a compulsive disorder, neuropathy, pain, a prostate disease, cancer, Huntington's disease, diabetes, a retinal disorder or glaucoma.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds that are inhibitors of cysteine proteases, in particular, cathepsins B, K, L, F, and S and are therefore useful in treating diseases mediated by these proteases. The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and processes for preparing them.

Abstract: The invention relates to cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor compounds and methods of identifying and using them. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions for treating cell proliferative disorders, especially cancer.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use of RecA inhibitors as antibiotic agents, and provides RecA inhibitors useful in treating infections. Also provided are various compositions and methods associated with RecA inhibition.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, T, W, X, Y and Z are as defined herein are provided, together with pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrates and/or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using these compounds for inhibiting beta amyloid production and for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome are described.

Abstract: Compounds that provide for sustained systemic concentrations of GABA analogs following oral administration to animals are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions including, and methods using, such compounds are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof. The compound or a salt thereof or a prodrug thereof has a GPR40 receptor function modulating action and is useful as an insulin secretagogue or an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes and the like.

Abstract: The present invention contemplates methods of treating, reducing, inhibiting or preventing several diseases by the administration of flexible heteroarotinoids. Among the diseases or conditions which can benefit from treatment with flexible heteroarotinoids as described herein are, (1) cancers and other diseases that involve abnormal differentiation, (2) diabetes, (3) hemophilia, (4) liver disease, (5) diseases involving human aldehyde dehydrogenase 2, (6) polycystic kidney disease, (7) lysosomal storage diseases, (8) high cholesterol, (9) obesity, (10) high triglycerides, (11) glycoprotein metabolism diseases, and (12) diseases involving abnormal angiogenesis.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds and also to methods of treating at least one disease, disorder, or condition associated with amyloidosis using such compounds. Amyloidosis refers to a collection of diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with abnormal deposition of A-beta protein.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula I in which R1, R2, X, A, B and Y1 to Y4 have the meanings indicated in the claims, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or a prodrug thereof. Because of their properties as inhibitors of chemokine receptors, especially as CXCR2 inhibitors, the compounds of the formula I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof are suitable for the prevention and treatment of chemokine mediated diseases.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds useful in treating glaucoma, inflammatory bowel disease, the stimulation of hair growth, and the stimulation of the conversion of vellus hair to terminal hair. The compounds themselves are herein.

Abstract: The invention concerns novel substituted 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-1-one derivatives and combinations of said derivatives with other therapeutically active ingredients. The invention also concerns compositions comprising said derivatives or said combinations and uses thereof, for the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, pathology related to inflammation, neurodegeneration, deregulations of lipid and/or glucose metabolism, cell proliferation and/or differentiation and/or skin or central nervous system ageing.

Abstract: A method for treating chemo therapy or radiation therapy side effects in a mammal undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, the method comprising a step of administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a RAR antagonist or RAR inverse agonist which binds to receptors of the RAR?, RAR? and RAR? subtypes is disclosed. Such side effects include chemoradiotherapy-induced alopecia, chemoradiotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia, chemoradiotherapy-induced leucopenia and chemoradiotherapy-induced neutropenia.

Abstract: This invention provides new compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and diagnostic kits comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds for inhibiting NAALADase enzyme activity, detecting diseases where NAALADase levels are altered, inhibiting angiogenesis, effecting a TGF-? activity or a neuronal activity, and treating a glutamate abnormality, a compulsive disorder, neuropathy, pain, a prostate disease, cancer, Huntington's disease, diabetes, a retinal disorder or glaucoma.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula: where variables Q, Z, X, R15, R2, R3, and Rc are defined herein. Compounds disclosed herein are inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme and are therefore useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases characterized by deposition of A beta peptide in a mammal.

Abstract: Methods of stimulating or increasing differentiation to regulatory T cells, cultures of regulatory T cells and methods of reducing or decreasing an immune response, inflammation or an inflammatory response, among other things, are provided. Methods include, among other things, contacting blood cells or T cells with an amount of TGF-beta or a TGF-beta analogue and a retinoic acid receptor agonist, or an amount of a retinoid X receptor (RXR) or peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) agonist, sufficient to stimulate or increase differentiation to regulatory T cells. Cultures of regulatory T cells include T cells that express a marker associated with regulatory T cells, such as cultures in which regulatory T cells represent, for example, 30% or more of the total number of cells in the culture.

Abstract: Cyclic onium compounds reresented by the following structural formula (I), glucosidase inhibitors using such compounds, and antidiabetic drugs or food containing such glucosidase inhibitor. wherein A? is an aniom; m is an interger between 1 and 6, n is 0 or 1, X+ is S+ or N+Q (where Q is H or an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms).

Abstract: The invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds of the formula in which all of the variables are as defined in the specification, in free base form or in acid addition salt form, to their preparation, to their use as medicaments and to medicaments comprising them.

Abstract: The present invention relates in part to antiinfective flavononol compounds represented by formula I: Another aspect of the invention is a method for treating an infection in a subject by administering the compounds of Formula I to the subject.

Abstract: Novel dialkylhydroxybenzoic acid derivatives containing metal chelating groups are disclosed. The novel compounds are used as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing various medical dysfunctions and diseases arising from reactive oxygen species and/or excess Zn ions, in particular stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease. The compounds have not only low toxicity but also similar or superior LPO inhibition activity to references. They also effectively inhibit the cerebral neuronal cell death by ROS and/or zinc ion, and show neuroprotective effects against ischemic neuronal degeneration.

Abstract: Disclosed are amide, thioamide, urea and thiourea compounds and compositions that inhibit soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), methods for preparing the compounds and compositions, and methods for treating patients with such compounds and compositions. The compounds, compositions, and methods are useful for treating a variety of sEH mediated diseases, including hypertensive, cardiovascular, inflammatory, and diabetic-related diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to semicarbazone or thiosemicarbazone inhibitors of cysteine proteases and methods of using such compounds to prevent and treat protozoan infections such as trypanosomiasis, malaria and leishmaniasis. The compounds also find use in inhibiting cysteine proteases associated with carcinogenesis, including cathepsins B and L.

Abstract: This invention relates to compositions of one or more compounds that incorporate one or more allyl sulfide, allyl disulfide or allyl polysulfide moieties, or one or more allyl sulfide, allyl disulfide or allyl polysulfide moieties and one or more hydroxyl groups, used in effective amount in formulations, including emulsions, to repel blood-feeding ectoparasitic arthropods, including mosquitoes, and to deter them from landing and feeding when applied to the skin, clothing or environment of animals, including humans. Said compounds can include, but are not limited to, 8-allyl-sulfanyloctan-1-ol. This invention also relates to compositions comprising one or more of said compounds in further combination with other arthropod repellent and deterrent compounds, including vanillin. These compounds may be formulated with inert ingredients to form a liquid, gel, paste, soap, spray, aerosol or powder.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds of the formula in which all of the variables are as defined in the specification, in free form or in salt form, to their preparation, to their use as medicaments and to medicaments comprising them.

Abstract: A method is provided of treating an eye with ophthalmologically active compounds, particularly with intra-ocular pressure lowering (IOP) compounds, where a dose of 5-15 microliters is delivered at a standard concentration.

Abstract: 3-Amino chroman and 2-amino tetralin derivatives and compositions containing such compounds are disclosed. Such compounds are useful for modulating activity of a 5-HT1A receptor (agonizing or antagonizing) in a patient. These compounds are further useful for inhibiting binding to a serotonin receptor. Methods of using the 3-amino chroman and 2-amino tetralin compounds and compositions containing such compounds in the treatment of serotonin disorders, such as depression and anxiety, are also disclosed.