Abstract: The embodiments provide compounds of the general formulas I-XIX, as well as compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising a subject compound. The embodiments further provide treatment methods, including methods of treating flaviviral infection, including hepatitis C virus infection and methods of treating liver fibrosis, the methods generally involving administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of a subject compound or composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds having pharmacological activity towards the 5-HT7 receptor, and more particularly to some tetrahydroisoquinoline propyl sulfonamide compounds, to processes of preparation of such compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use for the treatment and or prophylaxis of a disease in which 5-HT is involved, such as CNS disorders.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): (A)m·(B)n??(I) wherein A represents an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor compound containing at least one salt-forming basic function, B represents a compound containing at least one salt-forming acid function and at least one NO donor group, m represents the number of acid functions of B that have been converted to a salt and n represents the number of basic functions of A that have been converted to a salt, the bond or bonds between A and B being of the ionic type. Medicinal products containing the same which are useful in treating cardiovascular pathologies.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I): wherein R1 is a C1-C6 alkyl group, an amino group, a (C1-C6 alkyl)amino group, a di(C1-C6 alkyl)amino group or a nitrogen-containing saturated heterocyclic group; R3 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 alkyl group; Arom is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group or an unsubstituted or substituted heteroaryl group; wherein the substituted aryl group is substituted at 1 to 5 positions and the substituted heteroaryl group is substituted at 1 to 3 positions; and wherein the substituents of the aryl group and of the heteroaryl group are independently selected from the group consisting of halogen atom, C1-C6 alkyl, halogeno C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 alkylthio, C1-C3 alkylenedioxy, C1-C7 alkanoyl, C2-C7 alkyloxycarbonyl, amino, C1-C7 alkanoylamino, hydroxyl, mercapto, cyano, nitro and carboxyl; A is a C1-C6 alkylene group; Ra together with R2 is a C2-C3 alkylene group containing a double bond; E is a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a group of the formula: —NR4—, w

Abstract: The present invention relates to immunosuppressant, process for their production, their uses and pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The invention provides a novel class of compounds useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders mediated by lymphocyte interactions, particularly diseases associated with EDG receptor mediated signal transduction.

Abstract: A novel crystalline form of quinapril hydrochloride of formula (I) An amorphous form of quinapril hydrochloride substantially free of impurities, specially diketopiperazine compound, and conforming to pharmacopoeial specifications formed from the said novel crystalline form of quinapril hydrochloride of formula (I). The crystalline quinapril hydrochloride is in the form nitroalkane solvate in which the nitroalkane is nitromethane, nitroethane and nitropropanae. Each such nitroalkane solvate having particular characteristic X-ray diffraction patterns. A process for preparation of amorphous form of quinapril hydrochloride, substantially free of impurities, specially diketopiperazine compound, and conforming to pharmacopoeial specifications, using the novel crystalline quinapril hydrochloride as an intermediate. The process involves obtaining free base compound of formula (V) by adjusting the pH of a solution of the benzyl ester maleate salt of quinapril of formula (V) between 7.5-8.

Abstract: A method of preparing a tetrabenazine compound (TBZ compound) having structure I comprising the steps of reacting a nucleophilic alkenyl species with aldehyde compound II and oxidizing the resultant allylic alcohol to provide enone III. The protecting group P1 on the tetrahydroisoquinoline nitrogen is removed and the resultant deprotected intermediate is induced to undergo an amino cyclization reaction to provide a product TBZ compound having structure I. The method may be used to prepare either enantiomeric form of tetrabenazine; (+)-tetrabenazine or (?)-tetrabenazine. Alternatively the method may be adapted to provide a mixture enriched in one tetrabenazine enantiomer, a racemic mixture, or a diastereomeric mixture of tetrabenazine compounds. In addition, the present invention provides novel synthetic intermediate compositions which may be used to prepare either or both enantiomers of tetrabenazine, derivatives of tetrabenazine, and analogs of tetrabenazine.

Abstract: Modulators of PPAR? activity are provided which are useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of conditions such as type II diabetes and obesity.

Abstract: This present invention generally relates to muscarinic receptor antagonists of Formula (I), which are useful, among other uses, for the treatment of various diseases of the respiratory, urinary and gastrointestinal systems mediated through muscarinic receptors. The invention also relates to the process for the preparation of disclosed compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing the disclosed compounds, and the methods for treating diseases mediated through muscarinic receptors.

Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and use thereof in the treatment and/or prevention of diseases and disorders related to hormone sensitive lipase. More particularly, the compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases and disorders in which modulation of the activity of hormone sensitive lipase is beneficial.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase and are useful in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, atherosclerosis or tissue ischemia, e.g. myocardial ischemia, or as cardioprotectants or inhibitors of abnormal cell growth.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula I: Wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, X, n and the broken lines are as defined herein which are useful as modulators of chemokine receptor activity. In particular, these compounds are useful as modulators of the chemokine receptor CCR-2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having aggrecanase inhibitory activity and MMP-13 inhibitory activity, and useful as a therapeutic agent for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and the like, more specifically, a cyclopropane compound of formula (1): wherein R1 is —(CH2)m—X—(CH2)n-A1 etc., wherein m and n are the same or different and each is 0 to 6, X is a single bond, etc. and A1 is a substituted C3-14 hydrocarbon ring group, etc.; R2 and R3 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, —(CH2)p—X1—(CH2)q-A2, etc., wherein p and q are the same or different and each is 0 to 6, X1 is a single bond, etc. and A2 is an optionally substituted C3-14 hydrocarbon ring group, etc.; R4 is —CO2R9, etc., wherein R9 is a hydrogen atom, etc.; and R20 and R21 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, —(CH2)m12—X12—(CH2)m12—R30, etc., wherein m12 and m12 are the same or different and each is 0 to 6, X12 is a single bond, etc. and R30 is a hydrogen atom, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to biaryl sulfonamides and their use as, for example, metalloproteinase inhibitors.

Abstract: Thus, the present invention provides compounds of formula (I) The present invention further provides the use of a compound of formula (I) for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of a neurological disorder.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula 1 [Region ?]?[Region ?]?[Region ?]?[Region ?] ??(I) which are useful as modulators of chemokine activity. The invention also provides pharmaceutical formulations and methods of treatment using these compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing migraine comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a selective iGluR5 receptor antagonist. The present invention further provides novel compounds functional as selective iGluR5 receptor antagonists as well as compositions and formulations comprising said selective iGluR5 receptor antagonists.

Abstract: The invention refers to novel propenecarboxylic acid amidoxime derivatives furthermore N-oxides and/or geometrical isomers and/or optical isomers and/or pharmaceutically suitable acid addition salts and/or quaternary derivatives thereof. The novel compounds are suitable for the treatment of a state connected with oxygen deficit and/or energy deficit, or a disease based on PARP inhibition, especially an autoimmune or neurodegenerative disease, and/or a viral disease, and/or a disease caused by a toxic effect.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a compound of general Formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives and salts, racemates, isomers and/or tautomers thereof comprising cyclizing an azomethine ylide of general Formula: wherein, A is a cyclic or non-cyclic group; Z is a carbon or a heteroatom; n is selected from 0, 1, 2 or 3; W, X and Y may be the same or different and each are selected from hydrogen; optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, amino, alkoxy, alkenoxy, alkynoxy, aryl, alkylthio, heterocyclyl; carboxy, carboxy ester, carboxamido, acyl, acyloxy, mercapto, halogen, nitro, sulfate, phosphate, cyano and optionally protected hydroxy; or W and X, together with the nitrogen and carbon atoms to which they are attached, form a saturated or unsaturated nitrogen containing heterocyclic group which may be optionally substituted or optionally fused to a saturated or unsaturated carbocyclic group, aryl group or heterocyclic group is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds having a dual antagonistic activity against thromboxane A2 receptor and prostaglandin D2 receptor and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them. A compound of the formula (I): wherein R1 is —CH2—CH?CH—CH2—CH2—CH2—COOR2 or —CH?CH—CH2—CH2—CH2—COOR2; R2 is hydrogen or alkyl; m is 0 or 1; p is 0 or 1; X1 and X3 each is independently optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; X2 is a bond, —CH2—, —S—, —SO2—, —CH2—O—, —O—CH2—, —CH2—S—, —S—CH2—, or the like; X4 is —CH2—, —CH2—CH2—, —C(?O)—, or the like, have a dual antagonistic activity against both a thromboxane A2 receptor and a prostaglandin D2 receptor.

Abstract: Isoquinoline derivatives of the general formula (I) in which X, Y, Z, R1, R2 and n are as defined in Patent Claim (1), and physiologically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, are integrin inhibitors and can be employed for combating thromboses, cardiac infarction, coronary heart diseases, arteriosclerosis, inflammation, tumors, osteoporosis, infections and restenosis after angioplasty or in pathological processes which are maintained or propagated by angiogenesis.

Abstract: This invention provides caspase inhibitors having the formula: wherein Ring A is an optionally substituted piperidine, tetrahydroquinoline or tetrahydroisoquinoline ring; R1 is hydrogen, CHN2, R, or —CH2Y; R is an optionally substituted group selected from an aliphatic group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, a heterocyclic group, or an heterocyclylalkyl group; Y is an electronegative leaving group; R2 is CO2H, CH2CO2H, or esters, amides or isosteres thereof; Ar is an optionally substituted aryl group; and R3 is hydrogen, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, F2, CN, aryl or R3 is attached to Ar to form an unsaturated or partially saturated five or six membered fused ring having 0–2 heteroatoms. The compounds are useful for treating caspase-mediated diseases in mammals.

Abstract: N-heterocyclic moiety containing hydroxyethylamine compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: The invention provides novel thiocarbamate alpha-4 inhibitors of the general formula (I) that are resistant to metabolism having improved half-life and/or clearance properties compared to corresponding carbamate compounds wherein substituents L, X, Y, Z, R1–R4, m, n, o and p are as defined herein. Also provided are compositions comprising compounds of formula I and a carrier, diluent or excipient as well as methods of treating a disease or condition mediated by the binding interaction of alpha-4 integrins to its ligands such as inflammatory diseases.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating Alzheimer's disease using a compound of Formula (I). Also provided is a method of inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins using a compound of the Formula (I) and a method of imaging amyloid deposits, as well as new compounds of Formula (I).

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and methods for treating neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly pain and migraine.

Abstract: Novel carboxylic acid derivatives of general formula (I), salts of the same, esters thereof, or hydrates of them, which are useful as insulin resistance improvers; and drugs containing the derivatives as the active ingredient. In said formula, R1 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, or the like; L is a single bond, a double bond, alkylene, or the like; M is a single bond, alkylene, or the like; T is a single bond, alkylene, or the like; W is carboxyl, —CON(RW1)RW2, or the like; represents a single or double bond; X is oxygen, alkenylene, or the like; Y is an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may contain a heteroatom, or the like; and Z is an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may contain a heteroatom.

Abstract: The novel heterocyclic derivative of the present invention is a novel heterocyclic derivative having the formula (I?) wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or C1-6 alkyl, R2 is —CO—C(R4)?C(R4)—R5 wherein R4 is a hydrogen atom or C1-4 alkyl, and R5 is C4-8 alkyl, C2-8 alkenyl, aryl or aromatic heterocycle, —CO—C?C—R6 wherein R6 is C1-8 alkyl and the like, R3 is a hydrogen atom or C1-4 alkyl, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, R20 is optionally substituted phenyl, and n is an integer of 1 to 4, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound (I?) of the present invention is useful as a hypoglycemic agent, a hypolipidemic agent, an insulin resistance improver, a therapeutic agent of diabetes, a therapeutic agent of diabetic complications, a glucose tolerance improver, an anti-arteriosclerosis agent, an anti-obesity agent, an antiinflammatory agent, an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of PPAR-mediated diseases and an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of syndrome X.

Abstract: Methods and materials for preparing quinapril, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, including quinapril hydrochloride, are disclosed. The method includes reacting (2S,4S)-2-(4-methyl-2,5-dioxo-oxazolidin-3-yl)-4-phenyl-butyric acid ethyl ester with (3S)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-isoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester to yield quinapril tert-butyl ester, which is subsequently reacted with an acid to yield quinapril or an acid addition salt of quinapril.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I or Formula II, or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds or Formula I or Formula II, and methods for treating neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly migraine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing migraine comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a selective iGluR5 receptor antagonist. The present invention further provides novel compounds functional as selective iGluR5 receptor antagonists as well as compositions and formulations comprising said selective iGluR5 receptor antagonists.

Abstract: The invention provides &bgr;3-adrenoreceptor agonists, pharmaceutical compositions comprising &bgr;3-adrenoreceptor agonist compounds, and methods of using such compounds for stimulating, regulating or modulating metabolism of fats in adipose tissue in animals.

Abstract: Disclosed are isoquinolino derivatives of the formula wherein Y is >C═O or —CH2—, Z is >C═O or —CH2—, and R1, R2 and m are as defined herein as well as the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds are MAO-B selective inhibitors useful, inter alia, in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and/or senile dementia.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (I(a)), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; methods for treating neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly pain and migraine, comprising administering a compound of Formula (I) or Formula (I(a)); and processes for preparing compounds of Formula (I) or Formula (I(a)).

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing migraine comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a selective iGluR5 receptor antagonist. The present invention further provides novel compounds functional as selective iGluR4 receptor antagonists as well as compositions and formulations comprising said selective iGluR5 rec antagonists.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds which are useful in the modulation of endogenous growth hormone levels in a mammal. The invention further relates to novel intermediates for use in the synthesis of said compounds, as well as novel processes employed in these syntheses. Also included are methods of treating a mammal which include the administration of said compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates N-heterocyclic derivatives for treating or preventing neuronal damage associated with neurological diseases. The invention also provides compositions comprising the compounds of the present invention and methods of utilizing those compositions for treating or preventing neuronal damage.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (Ia), as well as methods for using the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and also provides processes for making compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (Ia), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Compounds of formula (I) and formula (Ia) are useful for the treatment of neurological disorders, especially migraine.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I or Formula II, or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds or Formula I or Formula II, and methods for treating neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly migraine.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts or prodrugs thereof, and methods for treating neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly pain and migraine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of (S)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-6,7-dialkoxy-3-isoquinolinecarboxylic acid compounds (1) and their derivatives from Levodopa (L-Dopa). The ultimately prepared compounds are used as intermediates for, but not limited to, the preparation of substituted derivatives of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-6,7-dialkoxy-3-isoquinolinecarboxylic acid wherein R1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, C2-C12 acyl, or R1O together are methylenedioxy; R2 is hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, aryl, substituted aryl, aralkyl or substituted aralkyl group; and R3 is hydrogen, C2-C12 acyl group, benzyl, alkoxylcarbonyl group, or aralkoxyl carbonyl group.

Abstract: The present invention provides antimalarial pharmaceutical compositions containing antimalarial naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids or antimalarial derivatives thereof, useful new antimalarial naphthylisoquinoline alkaloid derivatives, methods for obtaining such derivatives, and methods of using such antimalarial compounds for the prevention of malaria infections in mammals and for treating mammals with malarial infections. The antimalarial compounds of the present invention inhibit the reproduction and cytopathicity of Plasmodium sp. parasites in vitro and in vivo.

Abstract: A novel compound of the formula(I) having a high inhibitory activity against Grb2-Shc binding may be useful for the prevention and treatment of intracellular signal transmission-related diseases.

Abstract: The process for obtaining quinapril hydrochloride (I) comprises the stages of: a) hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ester of quinapril (II) by treatment in an alcoholic solvent, with concentrated hydrochloric acid or a solution of hydrogen chloride in isopropanol, and hydrogenation; b) removal of the solvent; c) addition of toluene to precipitate the quinapril hydrochloride as a toluene solvate; d) treatment of said solvate with a Class 3 solvent which forms a solvate of quinapril hydrochloride from which it can be removed by drying without degrading; and e) drying of the solvate from step d) to yield quinapril hydrochloride (I), an antihypertensive agent.

Abstract: This invention relates to compounds useful for treating or preventing obesity, breast cancer, osteoporosis, endometriosis, cardiovascular disease, prostatic disease, and the like, and to pharmaceutical composition, methods, and kits comprising such compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula: and their solvates and/or hydrates exhibiting an affinity and a selectivity for arginine-vasopressin V1b receptors or for both V1b and V1a receptors.

Abstract: A heterocyclic compound of the formula [I] wherein R1 is hydrogen atom or lower alkyl, R2 is hydrogen atom, alkyl optionally having a substituent and the like, R3 is hydrogen atom, lower alkyl and the like, A is a single bond or >N—R5 wherein R5 is hydrogen atom or lower alkyl, B is lower alkylene, and Y is aryl optionally having a substituent and the like, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof show a hypoglycemic action, a blood hypolipidemic action, an insulin resistance-improving action and a PPAR activating action, and are useful as a hypoglycemic agent, a hypolipidemic agent, an insulin resistance improver, a therapeutic agent of diabetes, a therapeutic agent of diabetic complication, a glucose tolerance improver, an anti-atherosclerosis agent, an anti-obesity agent, an antiinflammatory agent, an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of PPAR-mediated disease and an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of syndrome X.

Abstract: Disclosed as compounds which bind VLA-4. Certain of these compounds also inhibit leukocyte adhesion and, in particular, leukocyte adhesion mediated by VLA-4. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases in a mammalian patient, e.g., human, such as asthma, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, AIDS dementia, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, tissue transplantation, tumor metastasis and myocardial ischemia. The compounds can also be administered for the treatment of inflammatory brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing migraine comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a selective iGluR5 receptor antagonist. The present invention further provides novel compounds functional as selective iGluR5 receptor antagonists as well as compositions and formulations comprising said selective iGluR5 receptor antagonists.

Abstract: The process for obtaining quinapril hydrochloride (I) comprises the stages of: a) hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ester of quinapril (II) by treatment in an alcoholic solvent, with concentrated hydrochloric acid or a solution of hydrogen chloride in isopropanol, and hydrogenation; b) removal of the solvent; c) addition of toluene to precipitate the quinapril hydrochloride as a toluene solvate; d) treatment of said solvate with a Class 3 solvent which forms a solvate of quinapril hydrochloride from which it can be removed by drying without degrading; and e) drying of the solvate from step d) to yield quinapril hydrochloride (I), an antihypertensive agent.