The Other Cyclo In The Bicyclo Ring System Is Also Six-membered (e.g., Naphthyridines, Etc.) Patents (Class 546/122)
  • Publication number: 20040116463
    Abstract: Hydrates of N-[1-butyl-4-[3-[3-(hydroxy)propoxy]-phenyl]-1,2-dihydro-2-oxo-1,8-naphthyridin-3-yl]-N′-(2,6-diisopropyl-4-aminophenyl)urea hydrochloride of the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Masami Muroaka, Satoshi Ohnuma, Hitoshi Ban
  • Publication number: 20040106616
    Abstract: Substituted quinazolin-4-ylamine analogues are provided. Such compounds are ligands that may be used to modulate specific receptor activity in vivo or in vitro, and are particularly useful in the treatment of conditions associated with pathological receptor activation in humans, domesticated companion animals and livestock animals. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for using them to treat such disorders are provided, as are methods for using such ligands for receptor localization studies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Rajagopal Bakthavatchalam, Charles A. Blum, Harry Brielmann, Timothy M. Caldwell, Stephane De Lombaert, Kevin J. Hodgetts, Taeyoung Yoon, Xiaozhang Zheng
  • Patent number: 6743817
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof wherein R, Ar, A, n, R1 and R2 are defined herein. These compounds are highly selective agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAA brain receptors or prodrugs of agonists, antagonists or inverse agonists for GABAA brain receptors and are therefore useful in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety, depression, Down Syndrome, sleep and seizure disorders, overdose with benzodiazepine drugs and for enhancement of memory. Pharmaceutical compositions, including packaged pharmaceutical compositions, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Neurogen Corporation
    Inventors: George Maynard, LingHong Xie, Stanislaw Rachwal
  • Patent number: 6743793
    Abstract: Indole derivatives represented by formula (I): (wherein all symbols are described in the description), a process for the preparation of the same and a DP receptor antagonist comprising it as an active ingredient. Since the compounds of formula (I) binds to and are antagonistic to a DP receptor, they are useful in for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases, for example, allergic diseases (allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, atopic dermatitis, bronchial asthma, food allergy, etc., systemic mastocytosis; disorders due to systemic mastocyte activation, anaphylactic shock, bronchoconstriction, urticaria, eczema, etc.), diseases accompanied with itching (atopic dermatitis, urticaria, etc.), secondary diseases caused by behaviors (scratching behaviors, beating, etc.) (cataract, retinal detachment, inflammation, infection, sleep disorder, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Torisu, Kaoru Kobayashi, Fumio Nambu
  • Patent number: 6743803
    Abstract: Medicines for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia of mammals (including human beings) through the retardation or inhibition of neurodegeneration due to hypofunction of glutamic acid receptor and which contain as an active ingredient 5-substituted-3-oxadiazolyl-1,6-naphthyridin-2(1H)-one derivatives of the formula (I): wherein Het is oxadiazolyl; R1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cyclo-lower alkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl, etc.; and R2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cyclo-lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, etc., or physiologically acceptable acid addition salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Furukawa, Satoshi Kurumiya, Kazuo Okimoto, Kazunori Ohno
  • Patent number: 6740662
    Abstract: 2-Oxo-1,2-dihydro-1,8-naphthyridine derivatives characterized by bearing a specific substituent, —X—R6, at the 3-position and a cyclic substituent, R5, at the 4-position; or salts thereof. The derivatives and the salts are useful as drugs, particularly preventive or therapeutic agents for respiratory diseases related to PDE IV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwata, Noriyuki Kawano, Tomofumi Takuwa, Ryota Shiraki, Miki Kobayashi, Makoto Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6740663
    Abstract: Mono-flourinated and di-fluorinated benzothiepine apical sodium co-dependent bile acid transport (ASBT) inhibitors are disclosed together with methods of making the same, methods of using the same to treat hyperlipidemic conditions as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: G.D. Searle, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Tremont, Kevin J. Koeller
  • Publication number: 20040097507
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of Formula (I), which are useful for inhibiting resistant neoplasms where the resistance is conferred in part or in total by MRP1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Rosanne Bonjouklian, Louis Nikolaus Jungheim, Kenneth Jeff Thrasher
  • Publication number: 20040092538
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a class of compounds represented by the Formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Srinivasan R. Nagarajan, Ish Kumar Khanna, Michael Clare, Alan Gasiecki, Thomas Rogers, Barbara Chen, Mark Russell, Hwang-Fun Lu, Yu Yi, Renee M. Huff, Bipinchandra N. Desai, Balekudru Devadas, Mihir D. Parikh, Thomas Penning
  • Publication number: 20040063745
    Abstract: Therapeutically active thiazole derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, X and X′ are as defined in the specification, processes for the preparation thereof, the use thereof in therapy, particularly in the treatment or prophylaxis of disorders characterized by overexpression of transforming growth factor &bgr;(TAG-&bgr;), and pharmaceutical compositions for use in such therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Francoise Jeanne Gellibert, Charles David Hartley, Neil Mathews, James Michael Woolven
  • Publication number: 20040063934
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds which bind to integrin receptors, their use as ligands of integrin receptors, in particular as ligands of the &agr;v&bgr;3 integrin receptor, their use, and pharmaceutical preparations comprising these compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Herve Geneste, Andreas Kling, Udo Lange, Werner Seitz, Claudia Isabella Graef, Thomas Subkoski, Wilfried Hornberger, Arnulf Lauterbach
  • Publication number: 20040063949
    Abstract: Therapeutically active pyrazole derivatives of formula (I) wherein R1-R3 are as defined in the specification, processes for the preparation thereof, the use thereof in therapy, particularly in the treatment or prophylaxis of disorders characterised by overexpression of transforming growth factor (TGF-), and pharmaceutical compositions for use in such therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Francoise Jeanne Gellibert, Charles David Hartley, Neil Mathews, James Michael Woolven
  • Publication number: 20040058937
    Abstract: Pleuromutilin compounds of the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Steven Aitken, Gerald Brooks, Steven Dabbs, Colin Henry Frydrych, Steven Howard, Eric Hunt
  • Publication number: 20040053928
    Abstract: Aminopiperidine derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof useful in methods of treatment of bacterial infections in mammals, particularly in man.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: David Thomas Davies, Roger Edward Markwell, Neil David Pearson
  • Publication number: 20040048888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds and the treatment of mammalian diseases in which inappropriate, excessive or undesirable angiogenesis has occurred and/or where excessive Tie2 receptor activity has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventor: Marcus A. Semones
  • Publication number: 20040048867
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: Neurogen Corporation
    Inventors: Guolin Cai, Jun Yuan, Kevin Currie, Pamela Albaugh, Alan Hutchison
  • Publication number: 20040043983
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds defined by Formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventor: Jie Jack Li
  • Publication number: 20040043460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing an optically active pyridineethanol derivative. More particularly, it relates to a method of producing an optically active polycyclic pyridineethanol derivative by causing an enzyme or enzyme source to act on polycyclic acetylpyridine derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Kawano, Miho Horikawa, Yoshihiko Yasohara, Junzo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20040043986
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds defined by Formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Joe Nahra, Patrick Michael O'Brien, Daniel Fred Ortwine
  • Publication number: 20040038960
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds defined by Formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Jie Jack Li
  • Publication number: 20040038961
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds defined by Formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Amy Mae Bunker, Joseph Armand Picard
  • Publication number: 20040038999
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the Formula I: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: David Michael Goldstein, Julie Anne Lim
  • Publication number: 20040038963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel chain-fluorinated alkanoic acid derivatives thereof, their synthesis, and their use as &agr;v integrin receptor antagonists. More particularly, the compounds of the present invention are antagonists of the integrin receptors &agr;v&bgr;3 and/or &agr;v&bgr;5 and are useful for inhibiting bone resorption, treating and preventing osteoporosis, and inhibiting vascular restenosis, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, inflammation, inflammatory arthritis, viral disease, cancer, and metastatic tumor growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Jiabing Wang
  • Publication number: 20040038959
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds defined by Formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Amy Mae Bunker, Drago Robert Sliskovic
  • Patent number: 6696443
    Abstract: Certain compounds which contain a piperidine moiety flanked by aryl groups are inhibitors of p38-&agr; kinase and thus useful in the treatment of a variety of conditions characterized by inappropriate p38-&agr; kinase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Scios, Inc.
    Inventors: Babu Mavunkel, Sundeep Dugar, Gregory Luedtke, Xuefei Tan, Glenn McEnroe
  • Patent number: 6693101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel alkanoic acid derivatives thereof, their synthesis, and their use as &agr;v integrin receptor antagonists. More particularly, the compounds of the present invention are antagonists of the integrin receptors &agr;v&bgr;3 and/or &agr;v&bgr;5 and are useful for inhibiting bone resorption, treating and preventing osteoporosis, and inhibiting vascular restenosis, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, inflammatory arthritis, cancer, and metastatic tumor growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ben C. Askew, Michael J. Breslin, Mark E. Duggan, John H. Hutchinson, Robert S. Meissner, James J. Perkins, Thomas G. Steele, Michael A. Patane
  • Patent number: 6689772
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds of Formula (I), having the structure where T, Z, X, A, R1, R2a, R2b, R2c, R3, R4, and n are defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which are useful as antineoplastic agents and in the treatment of osteoporosis and polycystic kidney disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Diane Harris Boschelli, Yanong Wang, Frank Charles Boschelli, Dan Maarten Berger, Nan Zhang, Dennis William Powell, Fei Ye, Ayako Yamashita, Frenel Fils DeMorin, Biqi Wu, Hwei-Ru Tsou, Elsebe Geraldine Overbeek-Klumpers, Allan Wissner
  • Publication number: 20040014751
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to naphthyridine derivatives of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yamin Wang, William H. Bullock, David E. Gunn, Qingjie Liu, Sidney X. Liang, Donglei Liu, Steven R. Magnuson, Tindy Li, Eric S. Mull, Jill E. Wood, Ning Qi
  • Patent number: 6677352
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to naphthyridine derivatives of the formula wherein one of U, X, Y and Z is nitrogen and the others are C—R, where R is hydrogen or a substituent. More specifically, the invention relates to 1,6-naphthyridine derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions containing such derivatives. Methods of the invention comprise administration of a naphthyridine derivative of the invention for the treatment of diabetes and related disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Inventors: Yamin Wang, William H. Bullock, Libing Chen
  • Publication number: 20040006080
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of a formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: AstraZeneca AB, a Sweden corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Rigby, Hitesh Sanganee, Brian Springthorpe, Louise Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20040001971
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blue light-emitting compound for organic polymer EL devices and organic EL devices having superior color purity and light-emitting efficiency by providing a blue light-emitting compound for organic EL devices represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an organic EL device using the blue light-emitting compound: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Kwan Hee Lee, Soo Jin Park, Jong In Hong, Kyung Sun Choi, Chan Hyo Lee, Dae Yup Shin, Dong Hyun Jung, Sang Hyun Ju, Jang Hyuk Kwon
  • Publication number: 20030232817
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Roman Wolfgang Fleck
  • Publication number: 20030229090
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Cywin, Scott E. Jakes, Joachim Heider, Mark A. Bobko, Renee L. Des Jarlais, Mark Player, James Rinker, Michael Winters, Bao-Ping Zhao
  • Publication number: 20030229089
    Abstract: A cyclic compound of the formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Koichiro Yamada, Kenji Matsuki, Kenji Omori, Kohei Kikkawa
  • Publication number: 20030229109
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Patrick Casara, Francoise Perron-Sierra, Ghanem Atassi, Gordon Tucker, Dominique Saint-Dizier
  • Publication number: 20030229116
    Abstract: Enamine derivatives of formula (1) are described: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Timothy John Norman, John Robert Porter, Brian Woodside Hutchinson, Andrew James Ratcliffe, John Clifford Head, Rikki Peter Alexander, Barry John Langham, Graham John Warrellow, Sarah Catherine Archibald, Janeen Marsha Linsley
  • Publication number: 20030216373
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or an in-vivo-hydrolysable ester thereof, 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Barry Gravestock, Michael John Betts, Ian Richard Matthews, David Alan Griffin
  • Publication number: 20030212084
    Abstract: Piperidine derivatives of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof useful in methods of treatment of bacterial infections in mammals, particularly in man.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Ian Keith Hatton, Neil David Pearson
  • Publication number: 20030203909
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ushio, Youichiro Naito, Naoki Sugiyama, Takafumi Kawaguchi, Makio Ohtsuki, Kenji Chiba
  • Publication number: 20030191315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for making racemic 2-(7-chloro-1,8-naphthyridin-2-yl)-3-(5-methyl-2-oxohexyl)-1-isoindolinone and (+)-2-(7-chloro-1,8-naphthyridine-2-yl)-3-(5-methyl-2-oxo-hexyl)-1-isoindolinone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Sandra Marie Jennings, Timothy Lee Stuk
  • Publication number: 20030186995
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula 1 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: John Charles Kath, Tom Norma Jacqueline, Liu Zhengyu, Eric David Cox, Joel Morris, Samit Kumar Bhattacharya
  • Publication number: 20030186966
    Abstract: This invention concerns amide derivatives of Formula (I) wherein X is CH or N; Y is CH or N; m is 0-3; R1 is a group such as hydroxy, halogeno, trifluoromethyl, cyano, mercapto, nitro, amino, carboxy and carbamoyl; n is 0-3; R2 is a group such as hydroxy, halogeno, trifluoromethyl, cyano, mercapto, nitro, amino, carboxy and (1-6C)alkoxycarbonyl; R3 is hydrogen, halogeno, (1-6C)alkyl or (1-6C)alkoxy; q is 0-4; and Q is a group such as aryl, aryloxy, aryl-(1-6C)alkoxy, arylamino, N-(1-6C)alkyl-arylamino and aryl-(1-6C)alkylamino; or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts or in-vivo-cleavable esters thereof; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of diseases or medical conditions mediated by cytokines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: ASTRAZENECA AB
    Inventor: Dearg S. Brown
  • Publication number: 20030181446
    Abstract: Described are novel N-acylated heterocycle derivatives having affinity for serotonergic receptors. These compounds and their enantiomers, diastercoisomers, N-oxides, polymorphs, solvates and pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful in the treatment of patients with neuromuscular dysfunction of the lower urinary tract and diseases related to 5-HT1A receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Applicant: Recordati S.A.
    Inventors: Amedeo Leonardi, Gianni Motta, Rodolfo Testa, Carlo Riva, Jeffrey Corbett
  • Publication number: 20030176422
    Abstract: Pyridoarylphenyl oxazolidinone compounds of the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Steven D. Paget, Michele A. Weidner-Wells, Harvey M. Werblood
  • Publication number: 20030171584
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the Formula I and II: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Jian Jeffrey Chen, James Patrick Dunn, David Michael Goldstein, Christoph Martin Stahl
  • Publication number: 20030166673
    Abstract: Medicines for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia of mammals (including human beings) through the retardation or inhibition of neurodegeneration due to hypofunction of glutamic acid receptor and which contain as an active ingredient 5-substituted-3-oxadiazolyl-1,6-naphthyridin-2(1H)-one derivatives of the formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Furukawa, Satoshi Kurumiya, Kazuo Okimoto, Kazunori Ohno
  • Publication number: 20030162799
    Abstract: Squaric acid Derivatives of formula (1) are described: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Barry John Langham, Rikki Peter Alexander, John Clifford Head, Janeen Marsha Linsley, John Robert Porter, Sarah Catherine Archibald, Graham John Warrellow
  • Publication number: 20030162774
    Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I) to (VI), which more particularly include sulfonylurea derivatives, sulfonylthiourea derivatives, sulfonylguanidine derivatives, sulfonylcyanoguanidine derivatives, thioacylsulfonamide derivatives, and acylsulfonamide derivatives which are effective platelet ADP receptor inhibitors. These derivatives may be used in various pharmaceutical compositions, and are particularly effective for the prevention and/or treatment of cardiovascular diseases, particularly those diseases related to thrombosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Scarborough, Wolin Huang
  • Patent number: 6610700
    Abstract: Enamine derivatives of formula (1) are described: wherein R1 is a group Ar1 L2Ar2Alk- in which Ar1 is an aromatic or heteroaromatic group, L2 is a covalent bond or a linker atom or group, Ar2 is an arylene or heteroarylene group and Alk is a chain —CH2—CH(R)—, —CH═C(R)— or in which R is a carboxylic acid or a derivative or biostere thereof; R2 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-6alkyl group; Cy is a cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic ring in which X is a N atom or a C(Rw) group; Rx is a oxo, thioxo, or imino group; Rw and Rz is each a hydrogen atom or optional substituent; provided that Cy is not a cyclobutenedione group; and the salts, solvates, hydrates and N-oxides thereof. The compounds are able to inhibit the binding of integrins to their ligands and are of use in the prophylaxis and treatment of immune or inflammatory disorders, or disorders involving the inappropriate growth or migration of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Celltech R & D Limited
    Inventors: Timothy John Norman, John Robert Porter, Brian Woodside Hutchinson, Andrew James Ratcliffe, John Clifford Head, Rikki Peter Alexander, Barry John Langham, Graham John Warrellow, Sarah Catherine Archibald, Janeen Marsha Linsley
  • Patent number: 6610701
    Abstract: Compounds of the invention are useful in inhibiting thrombin and treating blood coagulation and cardiovascular disorders and have the following structure: wherein R3 is hydrogen or halogen, and u is N or CH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Barrow, Craig Coburn, Harold G. Selnick, Phung L. Ngo