Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh

Franz Braun

Dieter Berger

Werner Guthlein

Gunter Frey

Manfred Kuhr

Wolfgang Werner

Max Thiel

Gisbert Sponer

Kurt Stach

Wolfgang-Reinhold Knappe

Egon Roesch

Karl Dietmann

Kurt Stach, Deceased

Androniki Roesch

By Werner Plattner, Executor

This invention relates to new amino acid and peptide esters of leuko-indoaniline compounds and to a process for their preparation. In additional aspect, the invention relates to compositions containing such compounds for the detection of proteolytic enzymes and to methods for detecting such enzymes.

Amino acid and peptide esters of leuko-indoaniline compounds and

Azo dyestuff for use as a chromogen in detecting leukocytes

Diagnostic agent for the detection of leukocytes in body fluids, comprising an absorbent carrier which is impregnated with a chromogen and a buffer substance, wherein the chromogen is a sulfonphthalein ester of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a carboxylic acid residue optionally substituted by halogen or lower alkoxy; or is an amino acid or peptide residue having a nitrogen protective group;

Diagnostic agent for the detection of leukocytes and chromogens useful

Novel diagnostic composition for the detection of leukocytes in body fluids, comprising an absorbent carrier impregnated with a buffer substance and a chromgen, wherein the chromogen is an azo dyestuff ester of the formula

Diagnostic composition for the detection of leukocytes and chromogens

The present invention provides a diagnostic agent for the detection of proteolytic enzymes, comprising an absorbent carrier, a film layer, a powder mixture, a lyophilisate, a solution or a reagent tablet, containing at least one chromogen and an appropriate buffer substance, wherein the chromogen used is an indoxyl- and/or thioindoxyl-amino acid ester and/or peptide ester of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which can be the same or different, are hydrogen or halogen atoms, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, aryl, aralkyl, aralkoxy, hydroxyl, carboxy, carboxy lower alkoxy, aralkoxycarbonyl, aralkyloxycarbonyl lower alkoxy, nitro or lower acylamino radicals, whereby two adjacent substituents can also represent an optionally halogenated fused benzene ring, X is a sulphur atom or an imino group optionally substituted by a lower alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or acyl radical, A is an amino acid or peptide residue and B is a nitrogen protective group conventional in peptide chemistry or derived therefrom. The present invention also provides new compounds of the above-given general formula and processes for the preparation thereof. Furthermore, the present invention is concerned with the use of the compounds of the above-given general formula for the production of diagnostic agents for the detection of proteolytic enzymes.

Diagnostic agents for the detection of proteolytic enzymes

An L-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-2-methyl-alanine peptide of the formula ##STR1## wherein A is an alkylene radical which can be substituted by a hydroxyl group or by a phenyl radical which optionally carries at least one hydroxyl group, and

Lowering blood pressure with new

New 3,4-dihydro-2H-naphthalene-1-one-5-oxypropyl-piperazine derivatives of the formula: ##SPC1## Wherein

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