Abstract: Foams of ionic compounds are described. Methods of making the foams are also provided. The foams are ionic and can be used for catalysis, separations, gas storage, biosensors, electronics, and electrochemical applications.

Abstract: This invention is directed to analogs of 5-(tetradecyloxy)-2-furancarboxylic acid (TOFA) and their use in the treatment of dermatological disorders or conditions characterized by sebaceous gland hyperactivity, such as acne and oily skin, and other dermatological disorders and conditions. This invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising analogs of TOFA and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient for dermatological or oral administration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (IA) wherein QA is QA1 or QA2 P is P1, heterocycyl or heterocyclyl substituted by one to five Z; and wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, G1, Z, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing compounds of formula (IA), to insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal and molluscicidal compositions comprising the compounds of formula (IA) and to methods of using the compounds of formula (IA) to control insect, acarine, nematode and mollusc pests.

Abstract: The TPU of this invention contains unsaturation in its polymeric backbone. The unsaturation can be present in the soft segment or in the hard segment or in both the soft and hard segments of the TPU. The TPU can be molded like a thermoplastic, and can be subsequently crosslinked by exposure to electron beam irradiation into thermoset articles having excellent chemical resistance, dimensional stability, set properties, heat resistance, oxidative resistance, and creep resistance. In one embodiment, the TPUs of this invention are the reaction product (1) a hydroxyl terminated intermediate, (2) a polyisocyanate, (3) a saturated glycol chain extender, and (4) a glycol chain extender containing carbon-carbon double bonds, such as the allyl moieties present in trimethylolpropane monoallyl ether.

Abstract: Disubstituted 3,4-diamino-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione compounds are disclosed that are represented by general formula (I). Also disclosed, are pharmaceutical compositions including these compounds and methods of using these compounds and compositions for the treatment of chemokine-mediated pathologies.

Abstract: The compounds encompassed by Formula I include compounds which are HIV protease inhibitors and other compounds which can be metabolized in vivo to HIV protease inhibitors. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of infection by HIV and the prophylaxis, treatment, or delay in the onset of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.

Abstract: The invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: wherein Z, X, J, R2 and W are set forth in the specification, as well as solvates, hydrates, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that inhibit protein tyrosine kinases, especially c-fms kinase. Methods of treating autoimmune diseases; and diseases with an inflammatory component; treating metastasis from ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, hairy cell leukemia and non-small lung carcinoma; and treating pain, including skeletal pain caused by tumor metastasis or osteoarthritis, or visceral, inflammatory, and neurogenic pain; as well as osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and other diseases in which bone resorption mediates morbidity including arthritis, prosthesis failure, osteolytic sarcoma, myeloma, and tumor metastasis to bone with the compounds of Formula I, are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of BACE-2 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising BACE-2 inhibitors for treating metabolic disorders related to decreased ? cell mass and/or function.

Abstract: Compounds that inhibit PDE10 are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of conditions, including (but not limited to) psychotic, anxiety, movement disorders and/or neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, encephalitis, phobias, epilepsy, aphasia, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, sleep disorders, pain, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, delusional disorders, drug-induced psychosis and panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, solvates and prodrugs of the compounds are also provided. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for inhibiting PDE10 in a warm-blooded animal in need of the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted tetrahydronaphthalenes and derivatives thereof, and also to the physiologically compatible salts and physiologically functional derivatives thereof, to preparation thereof, to medicaments comprising at least one inventive substituted tetrahydronaphthalene or derivative thereof, and to the use of the inventive substituted tetrahydronaphthalenes and derivatives thereof as medicaments.

Abstract: The application discloses ketoconazole derivatives that are antagonists of the human pregnane X receptor (PXR), methods of preparing the derivatives, uses of the derivatives with drug therapy, and methods of inhibiting tumor cell proliferation and multidrug resistance using inhibitors of PXR.

Abstract: A composition, which comprises a) an organic material susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation; and b) a compound of formula I (Formula I) (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are independently from each other H, C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-cycloalkyl, phenyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or halogen; n is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and when n is 1 A is —C(=0)-OR?1, —C(=0)-N(R?2)(R?3), —CN, phenyl, which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-alkoxy, C5-C7-cycloalkyl or halogen, —H or —S02-phenyl; when n is 2 A is —C(=0)-O—Z1—O—C(=0)-, —C(=0)-N(R?1)—Z2—N(R?2)—C(=0)- or piperazine-N,N?-biscarbonyl.

Abstract: Chemical entities that are arctigenin derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer are described.

Abstract: The application relates to methods and systems for analysis of dissociation behavior of nucleic acids and identification of nucleic acids. In one aspect, methods and systems are disclosed for identifying a nucleic acid in a sample including an unknown nucleic acid and for detecting a single nucleotide polymorphism in a nucleic acid in a sample. Methods and systems are also disclosed for identification of a nucleic acid in a biological sample including at least one unknown nucleic acid by fitting denaturation data including measurements of a quantifiable physical change of the sample at a plurality of independent sample property points to a function to determine an intrinsic physical value and to obtain an estimated physical change function, and identifying the nucleic acid in the biological sample by comparing the intrinsic physical value for at least one unknown nucleic acid to an intrinsic physical value for a known nucleic acid.

Abstract: Substituted 4-aminobenzamides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and also methods of using these compounds in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of pain and further diseases and/or disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to 3-Amino-5-phenyl-5,6-dihydro-2H-[1,4]oxazines of formula I having BACE1 and/or BACE2 inhibitory activity, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as therapeutically active substances. The active compounds of the present invention are useful in the therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment of e.g. Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes.

Abstract: Disclosed are agents having pharmacological activity against cellular receptors and intracellular signaling, particularly receptors and signaling pathways of central nervous system (CNS) neurotransmitters. Also disclosed are related methods and compositions for the treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders using the agents.

Abstract: Chemical entities that are arctigenin derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer are described.

Abstract: Compounds that inhibit PDE10 are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of conditions, including (but not limited to) psychotic, anxiety, movement disorders and/or neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, encephalitis, phobias, epilepsy, aphasia, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, sleep disorders, pain, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, delusional disorders, drug-induced psychosis and panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, solvates and prodrugs of the compounds are also provided. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for inhibiting PDE10 in a warm-blooded animal in need of the same.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds which directly inhibit IRE-1? activity in vitro, prodrugs, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Such compounds and prodrugs are useful for treating diseases associated with the unfolded protein response and can be used as single agents or in combination therapies.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a series of novel compounds which have been shown to possess antifungal activity. The invention therefore relates to the new compounds, methods for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and to the compounds for use as a medicament, more in particular antifungal medicament.

Abstract: This invention is directed to analogs of 5-(tetradecyloxy)-2-furancarboxylic acid (TOFA) and their use in the treatment of dermatological disorders or conditions characterized by sebaceous gland hyperactivity, such as acne and oily skin, and other dermatological disorders and conditions. This invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising analogs of TOFA and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient for dermatological or oral administration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for the analysis of the dissociation behavior of nucleic acids and the identification of nucleic acids. In one aspect, methods and systems are disclosed for resolving a denaturation curve of a sample containing a first and second nucleic acid into a resolved denaturation curve for the first nucleic acid and a resolved denuration curve for the second nucleic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for the analysis of the dissociation behavior of nucleic acids and the identification of nucleic acids. In one aspect, methods and systems are disclosed for identifying a nucleic acid in a sample including an unknown nucleic acid and for detecting a single nucleotide polymorphism in a nucleic acid in a sample. In another aspect, methods and systems are disclosed for identification of a nucleic acid in a biological sample including at least one unknown nucleic acid by fitting denaturation data including measurements of a quantifiable physical change of the sample at a plurality of independent sample property points to a function to determine an intrinsic physical value and to obtain an estimated physical change function, and identifying the nucleic acid in the biological sample by comparing the intrinsic physical value for at least one unknown nucleic acid to an intrinsic physical value for a known nucleic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a salt selected from the group comprising the N-methyl-D-glucamine salt (NMG), the diethylamine salt (DEA) salt, the magnesium salt, the tromethamine salt, the choline salt, the L-arginine salt, the zinc salt, and the 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)morpholine (HEM) salt of compounds of the general formula (I) wherein X is selected from the group consisting of CH2, S, or O; D is O or S; R8 is hydrogen or alkyl; E is an optionally substituted phenylene group; Y is a monocyclic or bicyclic substituted or unsubstituted 6-9 membered ring system which may contain one or more heteroatoms selected from N or S and which contains at least one aromatic ring; n is 0 or 1; and q is 0 or 1; with the proviso that compounds wherein X?CH2, q=0, Y=unsubstituted phenyl and E=unsubstituted phenylene are excluded; or a hydrate thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel substituted furancarboxamides, methods for their production, their use for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, as well as their use for the production of medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially retroviral diseases, in humans and/or animals.

Abstract: The present invention provides bumetanide, furosemide, piretanide, azosemide, and torsemide analogs and compositions comprising such analogs. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing these bumetanide, furosemide, piretanide, azosemide, and torsemide analogs and methods for their use. All of these analogs are particularly useful for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of conditions that involve the Na+K+Cl? co-transporter or GABAA receptor including but not limited to addictive disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, anxiety disorders, ascites, autism, bipolar disorder, cancer, depression, endothelial corneal dystrophy, edema, epilepsy, glaucoma, Huntington's Disease, insomnia, ischemia, migraine, migraine with aura, neuropathic pain, nociceptive neuralgia, nociceptive pain, ocular diseases, pain, Parkinson's disease, personality disorders, postherpetic neuralgia, psychosis, schizophrenia, seizure disorders, tinnitus, and withdrawal syndromes.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to pyrrolidine and thiazolidine DPP-IV inhibitor compounds. The present invention also provides synthetic methods for preparation of such compounds, methods of inhibiting DPP-IV using such compounds and pharmaceutical formulations containing them for treatment of DPP-IV mediated diseases, in particular, Type-2 diabetes.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and compositions of the formula (I) as described herein which are inhibitors of MMP-13. Also disclosed are methods of using and making compounds of the formula (I).

Abstract: An N-acyl anthranilic acid derivative represented by general formula (1) or a salt thereof is useful for prevention or treatment of diseases associated with excessive production of collagen. (In the formula, R1 represents a carboxyl group or the like; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R3 represents an optionally substituted aryl group or the like; X1 represents a carbonyl group; X2 represents a bonding hand; X3 represents a bonding hand; X4 represents a bonding hand or the like; and A represents an optionally substituted phenyl group or the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides superior compositions and methods for the delivery of therapeutic agents to cells. In particular, these include novel lipids and nucleic acid-lipid particles that provide efficient encapsulation of nucleic acids and efficient delivery of the encapsulated nucleic acid to cells in vivo. The compositions of the present invention are highly potent, thereby allowing effective knock-down of specific target proteins at relatively low doses. In addition, the compositions and methods of the present invention are less toxic and provide a greater therapeutic index compared to compositions and methods previously known in the art.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the activity of Cathepsin S.

Abstract: Compounds that inhibit PDE10 are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of conditions, including (but not limited to) psychotic, anxiety, movement disorders and/or neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, encephalitis, phobias, epilepsy, aphasia, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, sleep disorders, pain, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, delusional disorders, drug-induced psychosis and panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, solvates and prodrugs of the compounds are also provided. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for inhibiting PDE10 in a warm-blooded animal in need of the same.

Abstract: Compounds comprising formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are disclosed, wherein J, B, Y, and A are as described in claims 1-13. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed, for treating baldness, glaucoma or inflammatory bowel diseases.

Abstract: Compounds comprising Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are disclosed, wherein J1, J2, U1, B, Y, and A are as described in claims 1-16. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed, for treating glaucoma, inflammatory bowel disease and baldness.

Abstract: 2-Phenylethylamino substituted carboxamide derivatives and their use as sodium and/or calcium channel modulators useful in preventing, alleviating and curing a wide range of pathologies are presented.

Abstract: 7-substituted fused ring tetracycline compounds, methods of treating tetracycline responsive states, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the 7-substituted fused ring tetracycline compounds are described.

Abstract: Therapeutic amine-arylsulfonamide conjugate compounds, of the general formula: wherein R? is [D-W-], hydroxyl, or alkoxyl; R? is independently [D-W?-], hydrogen, alkoxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aryl, or R? and R? together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 4-, 5-, 6-, 7- or 8-membered ring optionally containing one or two further heteroatoms independently selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur; D is independently a therapeutic amine radical comprising at least one nitrogen atom and optionally at least one oxygen atom coupled to W or W? by a nitrogen or oxygen atom; W and W? are a chemical bond or linker; wherein either R? is [D-W-] or at least one R? is [D-W?-], and pharmaceutically acceptable esters, amides, salts or solvates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, methods for their preparation, and their use in treating psychiatric, neurologic and metabolic disorders are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted tetrahydronaphthalenes and derivatives thereof, and also to the physiologically compatible salts and physiologically functional derivatives thereof, to preparation thereof, to medicaments comprising at least one inventive substituted tetrahydronaphthalene or derivative thereof, and to the use of the inventive substituted tetrahydronaphthalenes and derivatives thereof as medicaments.

Abstract: Therapeutic amine-arylsulfonamide conjugate compounds, of the general formula: wherein R? is [D-W-], hydroxyl, or alkoxyl; R? is independently [D-W?-], hydrogen, alkoxy, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl or aryl, or R? and R? together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a 4-, 5-, 6-, 7- or 8-membered ring optionally containing one or two further heteroatoms independently selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur; D is independently a therapeutic amine radical comprising at least one nitrogen atom and optionally at least one oxygen atom coupled to W or W? by a nitrogen or oxygen atom; W and W? are a chemical bond or linker; wherein either R? is [D-W-] or at least one R? is [D-W?-], and pharmaceutically acceptable esters, amides, salts or solvates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing same, methods for their preparation, and their use in treating psychiatric, neurologic and metabolic disorders are disclosed.

Abstract: Provided herein are compounds and methods useful for preparing hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-ol. Hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-ol can be efficiently synthesized in four steps from readily available starting materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) with the substituents as defined herein, and uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to benzofuran derivatives and analogs, as well as compositions containing the same and to the use thereof for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases caused by the hepatitis C virus.

Abstract: The present invention pertains, at least in part, to novel 7-substituted tetracycline compounds. These tetracycline compounds can be used to treat numerous tetracycline compound-responsive states, such as bacterial infections and neoplasms, as well as other known applications for minocycline and tetracycline compounds in general, such as blocking tetracycline efflux and modulation of gene expression.

Abstract: Novel immune potentiators, novel vaccine adjuvants, novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions, as well as novel methods for treating viral infections, including HCV, by administering the compounds and compositions, and novel methods for modulating the immune response by administering the compounds and/or compositions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new substituted pyrrolidinones of general formula wherein A, X, B and R1 to R9 are as defined above, or a tautomer or salt thereof, particularly the physiologically acceptable salts thereof with inorganic or organic acids or bases, which have valuable properties.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel benzophenone derivatives represented by formula I, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof or a solvate thereof, a pharmacological composition containing the same, and a use of the composition as therapeutic drugs. The benzophenone derivatives have an inhibition activity of microtubule formation and can be used to treat a normal proliferative state of a malignant tumor by killing the actively proliferating cells.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2) inhibitor. The BCRP inhibitor contains, as an active ingredient, an acrylonitrile derivative represented by formula (1): wherein one of R1 and R2 represents a cyano group and the other represents a hydrogen atom; Ar1 represents a group selected from among the groups represented by formulas (2) to (4): and Ar2 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having a condensed ring which may be substituted by a halogen atom, or a group selected from among the groups represented by the following formulas (5) to (15): or a salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the inhibition of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis and for the therapeutic treatment of bacterial infection or disease in a patient in need thereof. The present invention also provides the use of the formula I compound for the control of ecto- or endoparasites in homeothermic animals.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof wherein X, Z, R1, R2a, R2b, R3, and Rx are as defined in the specification, a process for the preparation of such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and the use of such compounds in medicine.