Patent number: 6380235
Abstract: The present invention provides compounds and pharmaceutical formulations useful as progesterone receptor agonists and antagonists and having the general formula:
wherein:
A is O, S, or NR4;
B is a bond between A and C═Q, or the moiety CR5R6;
R4, R5, R5 are independently selected from H or optionally substituted C1 to C6 alkyl, C2 to C6 alkenyl, C2 to C6 alknyl, C3 to C8 cycloalkyl, substituted C3 to C8 cycloalkyl, aryl, or heterocyclic groups, or cyclic alkyl constructed by fusing R4 and R5 to from a 5 to 7 membered ring; R1 is selected from H, OH, NH2, C1 to C6 alkyl, substituted C1 to C6 alkyl, C3 to C6 alkenyl, substituted C1 to C6 alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alknyl, —COH, or optionally substituted —CO(C1 to C3 alkyl), —CO(aryl), —CO(C1 to C3 alkoxy), or —CO(C1 to C3 aminoalkyl) groups; R2 is selected from H, halogen, CN, NO2, or optionally substituted C1 to C6 alkyl, C1 to C6 alkoxy, or C1 to C6 aminoalkyl groups; R3 is selected from a trisubstitut
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2000
Date of Patent:
April 30, 2002
Assignees:
American Home Products Corporation, Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Inventors:
Puwen Zhang, Reinhold H. W. Bender, Jay E. Wrobel, Lin Zhi, Todd K. Jones, James P. Edwards, Christopher M. Tegley
Patent number: 6352985
Abstract: A benzimidazole compound represented by the formula (I):
wherein R3 is a carboxyl group, a esterified carboxyl group, an amidated carboxyl group, an amino group, an amido group, or a sulfonyl group, or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts. Because of their blood sugar-depressing effect or PDE5 inhibitory effect, these compounds or salts thereof are useful as medicines for treating impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes, diabetic complications, syndrome of insulin resistance, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disorders, hyperglycemia, or hypertension; or stenocardia, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, congestive heart failure, glomerulopathy, tubulointerstitial disorders, renal failure, atherosclerosis, angiostenosis, distal angiopathy, cerebral apoplexy, chronic reversible obstructions, allergic rhinitis, urticaria, glaucoma, diseases characterized by enteromotility disorders, impotence, diabetic complications, nephritis, cancerous cachexia, or restenosis after PTCA.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 28, 2000
Date of Patent:
March 5, 2002
Assignee:
Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Noritsugu Yamasaki, Takafumi Imoto, Yoshiyuki Murai, Takahiro Hiramura, Teruo Oku, Kouzou Sawada
