Abstract:
The present invention is directed to compounds which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, including the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to compounds which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, including the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided compounds having the structure (I), wherein: A, B, N?α, Rα, Z, R2, R4, R5 and R6¿ are defined as in the description. The compounds of the invention displace acetylcholine receptor ligands from their binding sites. Invention compounds may act as agonists, partial agonists, antagonists or allosteric modulators of acetylcholine receptors, and are useful for a variety of therapeutic applications, such as the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other disorders involving memory loss and/or dementia (including AIDS dementia); disorders of attention and focus (such as attention deficit disorders); disorders of extrapyramidal motor function such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and tardive dyskinesia; mood and emotional disorders such as depression, panic, anxiety and psychosis; substance abuse including withdrawal syndromes and substitution therapy; neuroendocrine disorders and dysregulation of food intake, including bulimia and anorexia; disorders of nociception and control of pain; autonomic disorders including dysfunction of gastrointestinal motility and function such as inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, constipation, gastric acid secretion and ulcers; pheochromocytoma; cardiovascular dysfunction including hypertension and cardia arrhythmias, comedication in surgical procedures, and the like.
Abstract:
In accordance with the present invention, there are provided compounds having the structure (I), wherein: A, B, N , R , Z, R , R , R and R are defined as in the description. The compounds of the invention displace acetylcholine receptor ligands from their binding sites. Invention compounds may act as agonists, partial agonists, antagonists or allosteric modulators of acetylcholine receptors, and are useful for a variety of therapeutic applications, such as the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other disorders involving memory loss and/or dementia (including AIDS dementia); disorders of attention and focus (such as attention deficit disorders); disorders of extrapyramidal motor function such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and tardive dyskinesia; mood and emotional disorders such as depression, panic, anxiety and psychosis; substance abuse including withdrawal syndromes and substitution therapy; neuroendocrine disorders and dysregulation of food intake, including bulimia and anorexia; disorders of nociception and control of pain; autonomic disorders including dysfunction of gastrointestinal motility and function such as inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowels syndrome, diarrhea, constipation, gastric acid secretion and ulcers; pheochromocytoma; cardiovascular dysfunction including hypertension and cardia arrhythmias, comedication in surgical procedures, and the like.
Abstract:
Described herein are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the inhibition of kinase signaling mediated by the kinases A-RAF, B-RAF,C-RAF, p38, or GSK3β.. Said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods have utility in the treatment of human disease and disorders.
Abstract:
Described herein are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the inhibition of Hedgehog signaling. Said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods have utility in the treatment of human and veterinary diseases and disorders.
Abstract:
This invention concerns N-(ortho phenylamino dihydropyridyl)sulfonamides and N-(ortho phenylamino dihydropyridyl), N'-alkyl sulfamides which are inhibitors of MEK and are useful in the treatment of cancer and other hyperproliferative diseases.
Abstract:
Described herein are compounds useful in the modulation of blood uric acid levels, formulations containing them and methods of making and using them. In some embodiments, the compounds described herein are used in the treatment or prevention of disorders related to aberrant levels of uric acid.
Abstract:
This invention provides compounds of formula I where the dashed line represents an optional double bond; where R 1 is phenyl, naphthyl, pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyrrolyl, imidazolyl, pyrazyl, furyl, thienyl, oxazolyl, isoxazolyl, thiazolyl, or isothiazolyl, optionally substituted, and other substituents are defined herein. Such compounds are potassium channel modulators.
Abstract:
This invention provided compounds of formula (I), where W and Z are, independently, CH or N, and where other substituents are defined herein. Such compounds are potassium channel modulators. The invention also provides a composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient and at least one of the following: a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I); a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of a compound of formula (I); a pharmaceutically acceptable ester of a compound of formula (I). The invention also provides a method of preventing or treating a disease or disorder which is affected by activities of potassium channels, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula (I) or a salt or ester or solvate thereof.