Four Or More Ring Hetero Atoms In The Polycyclo Ring System Patents (Class 544/184)
  • Publication number: 20030064990
    Abstract: Compound of general formula I: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Stephen Martin Denton, Mark Ian Kemp, Sandra Dora Newman, David James Rawson
  • Publication number: 20030064991
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel compounds having the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Geraldine C.B. Harriman, Kenneth G. Carson, Daniel L. Flynn, Michael E. Solomon, Yuntao Song, Bharat K. Trivedi, Bruce D. Roth, Christine N. Kolz, Ly Pham, Kuai-lin Sun
  • Patent number: 6541472
    Abstract: Triazinoindole derivatives are useful in the prophylaxis and treatment of pestivirus infections and diseases associated with pestivirus infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: ViroPharma Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel C. Pevear, Theodore J. Nitz, Martin Seipel
  • Patent number: 6541469
    Abstract: CRF receptor antagonists are disclosed which have utility in the treatment of a variety of disorders, including the treatment of disorders manifesting hypersecretion of CRF in a warm-blooded animals, such as stroke. The CRF receptor antagonists of this invention have the following structure: including stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X is nitrogen or CR3; A is O, S, or NR4, and R, R1, R2are as defined herein. Compositions containing a CRF receptor antagonist in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are also disclosed, as well as methods for use of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Mustapha Haddach
  • Publication number: 20030060467
    Abstract: A class of substituted pyrazolo[1,5-d][1,2,4]triazine derivatives, possessing an optionally substituted cycloalkyl, phenyl or heteroaryl substituent at the 7-position, an alkyl group at the 4-position, and a substituted alkoxy moiety at the 2-position, are selective ligands for GABAA receptors, in particular having high affinity for the &agr;2 and/or &agr;3 subunit thereof, and are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of disorders of the central nervous system, including anxiety and convulsions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: William Robert Carling, Andrew Mitchinson, Michael Geoffrey Russell, Leslie Joseph Street
  • Publication number: 20030055250
    Abstract: The invention provides pteridine compounds of formula (I), processes and intermediates used in their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy. Formula (I) in which A is a group of formula (a) or (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Roger Bonnert, Stewart Gardiner, Fraser Hunt, Iain Walters
  • Publication number: 20030055060
    Abstract: A class of 7-phenylimidazo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazine derivatives, substituted at the meta position of the phenyl ring by a (cyano)(fluoro)phenyl moiety, being selective ligands for GABAA receptors, in particular having good affinity for the &agr;2 and/or &agr;3 subunit thereof, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of adverse conditions of the central nervous system, including anxiety and convulsions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: William Robert Carling, David James Hallett, Michael Geoffrey Neil Russell, Leslie Joseph Street
  • Patent number: 6525056
    Abstract: Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) antagonists of Formula (I): and their use in treating psychiatric disorders and neurological diseases, anxiety-related disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, supranuclear palsy and feeding disorders as well as treatment of immunological, cardiovascular or heart-related diseases and colonic hypersensitivity associated with psychopathological disturbance and stress in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Argyrios G. Arvanitis, Paul J. Gilligan, James P. Beck, Rajagopal Bakthavatchalam
  • Patent number: 6525000
    Abstract: A process for preparing fused triazoles of formula I where: X—X is C—O, C—S, C—SO, C—SO2, or C—NR1; V is C═W2, R1R2C—C(═W2)— or C(═V2)—C(═W2); W1, W2 are oxygen or sulfur; which comprises reacting substituted N-aminoureas are reacted with formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde to give the corresponding methyleneimino ureas; cyclizing these in the presence of catalytic amounts of acid or metal oxide to give tetrahydro-4H-1,3,4-oxa(or thia)diazines, and cyclizing the fused triazoles using phosgene or a phosgene substitute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Hamprecht, Olaf Menke, Robert Reinhard, Peter Schäfer, Cyrill Zagar, Martina Otten, Karl-Otto Westphalen, Helmut Walter
  • Patent number: 6514972
    Abstract: A compound of the formula wherein, independently at each occurrence, v, w, and x are selected from C, N, O, and S, with H substitution as needed to fulfill open valence sites; y and z are selected from N and C, with H substitution as needed to fulfill open valence sites, with the proviso that each of w, v, x, y and z is not simultaneously C; the ring formed from v, w, x, y and z may be saturated or unsaturated; and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are selected from hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, heteroalkyl, and heteroaryl; wherein any adjacent two of R1, R2, R3 and R4 may join together to form a 5, 6 or 7-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, with the proviso that each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 is not simultaneously hydrogen. Pharmaceutical compositions of said compounds, and methods of use in the treatment of biological conditions including cellular hyperproliferation, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Kinetek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Zaihui Zhang, Xinyao Du, Serguei Sviridov, Greg Chopiuk
  • Patent number: 6503908
    Abstract: There is provided compounds of formula I, wherein R1, R2, R3 and Het1 have meanings given in the description, which are useful in the curative and prophylactic treatment of medical conditions for which inhibition of a cyclic guanosine 3′,5′-monophosphate phosphodiesterase (e.g. cGMP PDE5) is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc
    Inventor: Graham Nigel Maw
  • Publication number: 20030004165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhibitor of matrix metalloprotease (MMP) production and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production, and medicines for the treatment of diseases such as chronic rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, allergic diseases, psoriasis, transplant rejection, arterial sclerosis, ischemic re-perfusion disorder, diabetic nephritic and ocular diseases, cancer, autoimmune glomerulonephritis, infectious diseases, Crohn's disease, inflammatory intestinal diseases and autoimmune hepatitis, each comprising certain polyazanaphthalene compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as active ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO. INC
    Inventors: Yukio Iino, Toshihiro Hatanaka, Yuko Satake, Kenji Takehana, Akiko Oonuki, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20020198377
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new substituted imidazotriazinones, processes for their preparation, and their use for the production of medicaments, in particular for improving perception, concentration power, learning power and/or memory power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Ulrich Niewohner, Dagmar Schauss, Martin Hendrix, Gerhard Konig, Frank-Gerhard Boss, Franz-Josef Van Der Staay, Rudy Schreiber, Karl-Heinz Schlemmer, Rolf Grosser
  • Publication number: 20020193366
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: Wyeth
    Inventors: Gary P. Stack, Megan Tran, Jonathan L. Gross, George E. M. Husbands
  • Publication number: 20020193595
    Abstract: Compounds having the general structure I are provided: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Daniel Chu, Rustum S. Boyce, David Duhl, Bryan H. Chang
  • Patent number: 6492364
    Abstract: Novel triazolo derivatives represented by the following formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as well as chemokine inhibitors containing the same as an effective component. These are useful as therapeutic agents for allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma and atopic dermatitis; therapeutic agents for inflammatory diseases such as chronic rheumatoid arthritis; therapeutic agents for autoimmune diseases such as ulcerative colitis and nephritis; and as anti-AIDS drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Takahashi, Takayuki Imaoka, Noriko Mori, Masayuki Kaneko, Koh Tanida, Yuichi Torii
  • Publication number: 20020183322
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Wyeth
    Inventors: Gary P. Stack, Adam M. Gilbert, Megan Tran
  • Publication number: 20020177599
    Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Charlotte Moira Norfor Allerton, Kevin Neil Dack, Mark Ian Kemp
  • Patent number: 6486158
    Abstract: [4,5]-Fused-3,6 disubstituted-pydidazines of Formula I are useful for inducing or promoting apoptosis and for arresting uncontrolled neoplastic cell proliferation, and are specifically useful in the arresting and treatment of neoplasia: wherein Y1 and Y2 are independently selected from the group consisting of (CH2)n,—C(X)—NH—,—(CH2)n—C(X)—O—, and X is O or S; R1 is selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, and substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, pyridinyl, and the like; R2 is selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, benzyl, pyridinyl, and the like; “A” is a benzene ring fused with the pyridazine ring; and R3 is independently selected in each instance form the group consisting of halogen, lower alkyl, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Cell Pathways, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojing Wang, Gerhard Sperl, Paul Gross, Rifat Pamukcu, Gary A. Piazza
  • Patent number: 6476029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 7-alkyl- and cycloalkyl-substituted imidazotriazinones, to processes for their preparation and to their use as medicaments, in particular as inhibitors of cGMP-metabolizing phosphodiesterases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Niewöhner, Mazen Es-Sayed, Helmut Haning, Thomas Schenke, Gunter Schmidt, Karl-Heinz Schlemmer, Erwin Bischoff, Klaus Dembowsky, Elisabeth Perzborn
  • Patent number: 6476030
    Abstract: Compounds according to Formula (I): or a salt or prodrug thereof, have good affinity as ligands for the alpha2 and/or alpha3 subunit of the human GABAA receptor and are useful for treatment of disorders of the central nervous system, including anxiety and convulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd.
    Inventors: William Robert Carling, Andrew Mitchinson, Kevin William Moore, Michael Geoffrey Russell, Gayle Scott, Leslie Joseph Street
  • Patent number: 6458758
    Abstract: Compositions and processes to alleviate free radical toxicity are disclosed based on the use of nitroxides in association with physiologically compatible macromolecules. In particular, hemoglobin-based red cell substitutes are described featuring stable nitroxide free radicals for use in cell-free hemoglobin solutions, encapsulated hemoglobin solutions, stabilized hemoglobin solutions, polymerized hemoglobin solutions, conjugated hemoglobin solutions, nitroxide-labelled albumin, and nitroxide-labelled immunoglobulin. Formulations are described herein that interact with free radicals, acting as antioxidant enzyme-mimics, which preserve nitroxides in their active form in vivo. Applications are described including blood substitutes, radioprotective agents, imaging agents, agents to protect against ischemia and reperfusion injury, particularly in cerebral ischemia in stroke, and in vivo enzyme mimics among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Synzyme Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jen-Chang Hsia
  • Publication number: 20020137930
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of sulphonamide-substituted imidazotriazinones of the general formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Marc Nowakowski, Reinhold Gehring, Werner Heilmann, Karl-Heinz Wahl
  • Publication number: 20020130317
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, nanometer-scale reversible electronic switches are provided that can be assembled to make cross-bar circuits that provide memory, logic, and communications functions. The electronic switches, or crossed-wire devices, comprise a pair of crossed wires that form a junction where one wire crosses another at an angle other than zero degrees and at least one connector species connecting the pair of crossed wires in the junction. The junction has a functional dimension in nanometers, wherein at least one connector species and the pair of crossed wires forms an electrochemical cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Pavel Kornilovich, R. Stanley Williams, Xiao-An Zhang
  • Publication number: 20020130316
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, nanometer-scale reversible electronic switches are provided that can be assembled to make cross-bar circuits that provide memory, logic, and communications functions. The electronic switches, or crossed-wire devices, comprise a pair of crossed wires that form a junction where one wire crosses another at an angle other than zero degrees and at least one connector species connecting the pair of crossed wires in the junction. The junction has a functional dimension in nanometers, wherein at least one connector species and the pair of crossed wires forms an electrochemical cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Pavel Kornilovich, R. Stanley Williams, Xiao-An Zhang
  • Publication number: 20020128265
    Abstract: CRF receptor antagonists are disclosed which have utility in the treatment of a variety of disorders, including the treatment of disorders manifesting hypersecretion of CRF in a warm-blooded animals, such as stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Mustapha Haddach
  • Patent number: 6448248
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carboxylic acid derivatives of the formula I where the substituents have the meanings explained in the description, and to preparation and use as endothelin receptor antagonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Wilhelm Amberg, Rolf Jansen, Andreas Kling, Dagmar Klinge, Hartmut Riechers, Stefan Hergenröder, Manfred Raschack, Liliane Unger
  • Patent number: 6444672
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heterocyclic antithrombotic compounds comprising a compound of the Formula I, wherein X′ is independently CH or N, and m is 0, 1, 2 or 3, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Constant Adriaan Anton van Boeckel, Philippus Johannes Marie van Galen, Johannes Bernardus Maria Rewinkel
  • Publication number: 20020111355
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds of the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Applicant: American Home Products Corporation
    Inventors: Puwen Zhang, Arthur A. Santilli, Andrew Fensome, Eugene A. Terefenko, Andrew Q. Viet, Jay E. Wrobel, James P. Edwards, Todd K. Jones, Christopher M. Tegley, Lin Zhi
  • Patent number: 6432955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to therapeutically active antithrombotic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Constant Adriaan Anton van Boeckel, Philippus Johannes Marie van Galen, Johannes Bernardus Maria Rewinkel
  • Patent number: 6420365
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula: or the pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic salts thereof wherein A, B, C, D, Y, R1, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are variables defined herein, which compounds are modulators of Bradykinin B2 receptors. These compounds are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of renal diseases, heart failure, hypertension, Meniere's disease, vaginal inflammation and pain, peripheral circulatory disorders, climacteric disturbance, retinochoroidal circulatory disorders, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, postmyocardial infarction syndrome, angina pectoris, restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, ileus, diabetes, diabetic complications, male infertility, glaucoma, pain, asthma, and rhinitis and for the increase of permeability of the blood-brain barrier or the blood-brain-tumor barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Neurogen Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Peterson, Alan Hutchison, Kenneth Shaw, Kevin Hodgetts, George D. Maynard, Richard Lew
  • Patent number: 6416922
    Abstract: The present invention related to an azomethine dye precursor represented by the following general formula (1) and the image-forming material and image-forming method using the azomethine dye precursor: wherein Ar represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group which may each have a substituent; X represents a bivalent group linking a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom; and Cp represent a coupler residue which may or may not form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sato, Masatoshi Yumoto, Yoshimitsu Arai, Hirotaka Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20020061865
    Abstract: This invention relates to bicyclic heterocycles that inhibit cyclin-dependent kinase or tyrosine kinase enzymes, or both, and as such are useful to treat cell proliferative disorders such as angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, restenosis, and cancer as well as immunological disorders such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diabetes, and graft rejection associated with transplant surgery in mammals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: James Bernard Kramer, Howard Daniel Hollis Showalter
  • Publication number: 20020055508
    Abstract: Compounds of general structural formula (1) are shown to have AMPA receptor enhancing properties. The compounds are useful for such therapeutic purposes as facilitating the learning of behaviors dependent upon AMPA receptors, and in treating conditions, such as memory impairment, in which AMPA receptors, or synapses utilizing these receptors, are reduced in numbers or efficiency. They may also be used to enhance excitatory synaptic activity in order to restore an imbalance between brain subregions, as in treatment of schizophrenia or schizophreniform behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Applicant: Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary A. Rogers, Christopher M. Marrs
  • Publication number: 20020052371
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Takehiro Fukami, Akio Kanatani, Akane Ishihara, Yasuyuki Ishii, Toshiyuki Takahashi, Yuji Haga, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Takahiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 6362178
    Abstract: The 2-phenyl-substituted imidazotriazinones having short, unbranched alkyl radicals in the 9-position are prepared from the corresponding 2-phenyl-imidazotriazinones by chlorosulphonation and subsequent reaction with the amines. The compounds inhibit cGMP-metabolizing phosphodiesterases and are suitable for use as active compounds in pharmaceuticals, for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disorders and/or disorders of the urogenital system, in particular for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Niewöhner, Mazen Es-Sayed, Helmut Haning, Thomas Schenke, Karl-Heinz Schlemmer, Jörg Keldenich, Erwin Bischoff, Elisabeth Perzborn, Klaus Dembowsky, Peter Serno, Marc Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20020035251
    Abstract: A compound of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Zaihui Zhang, Xinyao Du, Serguei Sviridov, Greg Chopiuk
  • Publication number: 20020032194
    Abstract: CRF receptor antagonists are disclosed which have utility in the treatment of a variety of disorders, including the treatment of disorders manifesting hypersecretion of CRF in a warm-blooded animals, such as stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventor: Mustapha Haddach
  • Patent number: 6355638
    Abstract: Compounds according to Formula (I) or a salt thereof are GABA-A Alpha 5 ligands useful for enhancing cognition:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd.
    Inventors: Helen Jane Bryant, William Robert Carling, Mark Stuart Chambers, Sarah Christine Hobbs, Philip Jones, Angus Murray MacLeod
  • Publication number: 20020019525
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: Neurogen
    Inventor: Taeyoung Yoon
  • Publication number: 20020019397
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Mark E. Schnute, Valerie A. Vaillancourt, Scott D. Larsen
  • Publication number: 20020010330
    Abstract: A method of preparing a pyrrolotriazin-4-one and a method of preparing the isothiocyanatoformic acid ester derivative which can be used as a reactant in that method of preparing a pyrrolotriazin-4-one. The method of preparing the pyrrolotriazin-4-one includes an addition step of an aminopyrrole derivative and the isothiocyanatoformic compound and a step of ring-closing reaction of a resulting adduct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsunori Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6316448
    Abstract: The invention relates to 3,6-dihydropyrazolo[3,4-d][1,2,3]triazin-4-ones and their tautomers, which contain a benzyl radical in the 6 position, processes for their preparation and their use as medicaments, in particular for the treatment of epilepsy of various forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas Arnold, Klaus Unverferth, Hans-Joachim Lankau, Angelika Rostock, Reni Bartsch, Thomas Kronbach
  • Patent number: 6245769
    Abstract: Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) antagonists of Formula (I): and their use in treating psychiatric disorders and neurological diseases, anxiety-related disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, supranuclear palsy and feeding disorders as well as treatment of immunological, cardiovascular or heart-related diseases and colonic hypersensitivity associated with psychopathological disturbance and stress in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company
    Inventors: Argyrios G. Arvanitis, Paul J. Gilligan, James P. Beck, Rajagopal Bakthavatchalam
  • Patent number: 6194409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antithrombotic compounds comprising the group Q, Q having formula (I), wherein the substructure (i) is a structure selected from (a, b and c), wherein X is O or S; X′ being independently CH or N; and m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; wherein the group Q is bound through an oxygen atom or an optionally substituted nitrogen or carbon atom, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a prodrug thereof. The compounds of the invention are therapeutically active and in particular are antithrombotic agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Constant Adriaan Anton van Boeckel, Philippus Johannes Marie van Galen, Johannes Bernardus Maria Rewinkel
  • Patent number: 6166019
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I and II and their pharmaceutically acceptable, salts, esters and prodrugs thereof are selective alpha-1D adrenoceptor anatagonists and may be useful for treating disease states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Michael D. Meyer, William A. Caroll
  • Patent number: 6166015
    Abstract: This invention relates to certain 3-aminomethylpyrrolidine derivatives of Formula (I): ##STR1## that are CCR-3 receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, methods for their use and methods for preparing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Syntex (U.S.A.) Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Harry Rogers, John Saunders, John Patrick Williams
  • Patent number: 6147080
    Abstract: The present invention relates to inhibitors of p38, a mammalian protein kinase involved cell proliferation, cell death and response to extracellular stimuli. The compounds are of the class of pyrido [1,2-c] pyrimidin-3-one or 1,2-dihydro-pyrido [1,2-c] pyrimidin-3-one derivatives, useful as inhibitors of p38. The invention also relates to methods for producing these inhibitors. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inhibitors of the invention and methods of utilizing those compositions in the treatment and prevention of various disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Guy W. Bemis, Francesco Gerald Salituro, John Patrick Duffy, Edmund Martin Harrington
  • Patent number: 6103731
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of compounds of the formula: or the pharmaceutically acceptable nontoxic salts thereof wherein:X is oxygen, H.sub.2 or sulfurY is hydrogen, or optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, (substituted)arylalkyl, aryl or heteroaryl, or a carbonyl group substituted with alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or amino groups;W is alkyl, arylalkyl or heteroarylalkyl, where each aryl group is optionally substituted with up to two groups; orW is aryl, thienyl, pyridyl or heteroaryl, each of which is optionally substituted; andZ.sub.1, Z.sub.2, Z.sub.3, and Z.sub.4 independently represent nitrogen or C-R.sub.1 where R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, amino, or phenyl or pyridyl optionally mono- or independently disubstituted with halogen, hydroxy, lower alkyl, or lower alkoxy,which compounds are highly selective agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAa brain receptors or prodrugs of agonists or inverse agonists for GABAa brain receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Neurogen Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Chen, Alan Hutchison, Guolin Cai
  • Patent number: 6075016
    Abstract: Novel compounds which are effective PDE IV inhibitors are disclosed. The compounds possess improved PDE IV inhibition as compared to theophylline or rolipram, with improved selectivity with regard to, e.g., PDE V inhibition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Euro-Celtique S.A.
    Inventors: Mark Chasin, David Cavalla, Peter Hofer, Andre Gehrig, Peter Wintergerst