Abstract:
This invention relates to immunogenic compounds which may serve as ligands for NKT (natural killer T) cells and to methods of use thereof in modulating immune responses.
Abstract:
Fused heterocyclic compounds represented by general formula (I), optical isomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, medicinal compositions comprising these compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable additives, and drugs comprising these compounds. These compounds exert more potent blocking effects on D4 receptors than on D2 receptors. Moreover, they have high affinities for receptors other than dopamine receptors such as muscarine M1, serotonin-2 (5-HT2) and adrenalin alpha 1 and alpha 2 receptors. Thus, these compounds are efficacious against not only positive symptoms typified by hallucination and delusion characteristic of the acute stage of schizophrenia but also negative symptoms such as emotional torpidity, abulia and autism. In addition, they are useful as antipsychotic agents with relieved side effects such as extrapyramidal symptoms and abnormal internal secretion observed in association with the administration of the conventional antipsychotic agents having only D2 receptor antagonism. The above compounds are usable as remedies for diseases such as schizophrenia.
Abstract:
This invention relates to immunogenic compounds which serve as ligands for NKT (natural killer T) cells and to methods of use thereof in modulating immune responses.
Abstract:
This invention relates to immunogenic compounds which may serve as ligands for NKT (natural killer T) cells and to methods of use thereof in modulating immune responses.
Abstract:
This invention relates to immunogenic compounds which may serve as ligands for NKT (natural killer T) cells and to methods of use thereof in modulating immune responses.
Abstract:
Fused heterocyclic compounds represented by general formula (I), wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, optical isomers thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of formula (I), the optical isomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable additives; and medicines containing the compounds of formula (I), the optical isomers thereof, or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds are useful antipsychotic agents efficacious against not only positive symptoms centering on the hallucination, delusion and the like peculiar to the acute stage of schizophrenia, but also negative symptoms such as emotional torpidity, abulia and autism. They are also expected as highly safe antipsychotic agents reduced in the side effects, such as extrapyramidal symptoms or abnormal internal secretion, observed in the case of administration of conventional antipsychotic agents having D2 receptor blocking effects. Thus these compounds can be used as remedies for diseases including schizophrenia.