Abstract:
Isovaleramide has been found to exhibit mild anxiolytic (anxiety-reducing) activity at low to moderate dosage levels and mild sedative activity at somewhat higher dosage levels. In contrast to certain other materials thought to be anxiolytic or mildly sedative, isovaleramide is non-cytotoxic and does not paradoxically stimulate the central nervous system. Isovaleramide is therefore useful as a mild anxiolytic and mild sedative agent which can be made available to the general public.
Abstract:
Method and composition useful for treating a patient having a disease characterized by an abnormal level of one or more components, the activity of which is regulated or affected by activity of one or more Ca receptors. Novel compounds useful in these methods and compositions are also provided. The method includes administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a molecule active at one or more Ca receptors as an agonist or antagonist. Preferably, the molecule is able to act as either a selective agonist or antagonist at a Ca receptor of one or more but not all cells chosen from the group consisting of parathyroid cells, bone osteoclasts, juxtaglomerular kidney cells, proximal tubule kidney cells, keratinocytes, parafollicular thyroid cells and placental throphoblasts and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Abstract:
Specific potent transient outward potassium channel inhibitors, and polypeptides derived from spider venom are described. Also described are methods of screening for agents specifically active on transient outward potassium channels or other types of potassium channels, methods of treating a disease or condition by administering an agent active on a transient outward potassium channel or certain agents active on other potassium channels, and methods of using a potassium channel inhibitor derived from spider venom as an insecticidal agent.
Abstract:
Novel calcium receptor-active compounds represented by the following general formula: Ar1-[CR R ]p-X-[CR R ]q-[CR R ]-NR -[CR R ]-Ar2 wherein Ar1 is selected from the group consisting of aryl, heteroaryl, bis(arylmethyl)amino, bis(heteroaryl-methyl)amino and arylmethyl(heteroarylmethyl)amino; X is selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, carbonyl and amino; R , R , R , R , R , R , R , R and R represent, for example, each hydrogen or alkyl; Ar2 is selected from the group consisting of aryl and heteroaryl; p is an integer of from 0 to 6; and q is an integer of from 0 to 14.
Abstract translation:由以下通式表示的新型钙受体活性化合物:Ar1- [CR 1 R 2] pX- [CR 3 R 4] q- [CR 5 R 6] - NR 7 - [CR 8 R 9] -Ar 2,其中Ar 1选自芳基,杂芳基,双(芳基甲基)氨基,双(杂芳基 - 甲基)氨基和芳基甲基(杂芳基甲基)氨基; X选自氧,硫,亚磺酰基,磺酰基,羰基和氨基; R 1,R 2,R 3,R 4,R 5,R 6,R 7,R 8和R 9表示例如各自 氢或烷基; Ar 2选自芳基和杂芳基; p是0至6的整数; q为0〜14的整数。
Abstract:
The present invention features calcilytic compounds. "Calcilytic compounds" refer to compounds able to inhibit calcium receptor activity. Also described are the use of calcilytic compounds to inhibit calcium receptor activity and/or achieve a beneficial effect in a patient; and techniques which can be used to obtain additional calcilytic compounds.
Abstract:
This invention relates to the purification of a family of insecticidally effective peptides isolated from the spider, Calisoga sp., characterized by their neurotoxic effect on insect pest and low mammalian toxicity. The cDNA sequences for three of these peptides have been isolated, and the complete coding sequence is provided. This invention also discloses methods for producing recombinant peptides, as well as methods of utilizing these peptides as insecticidal agents.
Abstract:
This invention provides a family of insecticidally effective proteins and particular members of that family which may be isolated from the venom of the spider Filistata hibernalis, DNA encoding such proteins, insecticidal compositions of these proteins or the DNA encoding them, and methods for controlling invertebrate pests. Recombinant expression vectors and host cells and methods for producing insecticidally effective peptides are also provided.
Abstract:
Compounds having the formula R-(CH2)m-CO-R' wherein R is a 5 to 7 member azacylic system or an 8 to 11 member azabicyclic system, having 1 or 2 nitrogen atoms, or any such system substituted with one or more of F, Cl, Br, OH, C1 to C4 alkyl, C1 to C4 alkoxy, CF3, phenyl, amino, C1 to C4 alkylamino and di(C1 to C4 alkyl)amino; m is 0 or 1; R' is -[NH(CH2)n]xNH2; each n is independently 2 to 5; and x is 1 to 6, and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts are potent excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter antagonists. These compounds are useful as mammalian psychotherapeutants, as the active ingredient in pharmaceutical compositions for treating conditions in mammals which are mediated by excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters and in the control of invertrebrate pests.