Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Giichi Goto

Yuji Ishihara

Akinobu Nagaoka

Masaomi Miyamoto

Hidefumi Yukimasa

Tetsuji Imamoto

Shigenori Ohkawa

Keisuke Hirai

Terumi Nakajima

Naohisa Fukuda

Koichi Shudo

Kentaro Hiraga

Yoshiaki Saji

Mitsuhiro Wakimasu

Shoji Fukumoto

Hiroyuki Ohta

Tetsuya Okutani

Kouichi Yoshioka

Mitsuru Kakihana

Yoshihiro Sugiura

Takuichi Miki

Kyozo Hayashi

Tsuneo Asano

Takuo Kosaka

Dietrich Hadler

Reinhold Hubner

Shuji Higuchi

Michio Masuoka

Ryo Nakayama

Heterocyclic compounds, their production and use

Use of idebenone and analogues against &bgr; amyloid induced cytotoxicity

Composition for inhibiting production or secretion of amyloid .beta.

A pharmaceutical composition comprising idebenone in combination with a compound having acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity is useful for treating or preventing Alzheimer's disease.

Composition for alzheimer's disease

A pharmaceutical composition comprising idebenone of the present invention is useful for prevention of the progression of dementia.

Pharmaceutical composition for treatment of dementia

A novel compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein Ar represents a tetracyclic fused heterocyclic group which may be substituted; R.sup.1 represents H or a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted; Y represents an amino acid or nitrogen-containing saturated heterocyclic group which may be substituted, its salt, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine uptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Tetracyclic condensed heterocyclic compounds their production, and use

A novel compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents an optionally substituted tricyclic condensed benzene ring group which includes at least one heterocyclic ring as a component ring; n represents an integer from 2 to 10; R.sup.1 represents H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group, which may be different from one another in the repetition of n; and Y represents an optionally substituted 4-piperidinyl, 1-piperazinyl or 4-benzyl-1-piperidinyl group, or a salt thereof, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine reuptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Tricyclic condensed heterocyclic compounds their production and use

A novel compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein Ar represents a tetracyclic fused heterocyclic group which may be substituted; R.sup.1 represents H or a hydrocarbon group which may be substituted; Y represents an amino or nitrogen-containing saturated heterocyclic group which may be substituted, its salt, inhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine uptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic and/or prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Tetracyclic condensed heterocyclic compounds and their use

The present invention relates to prevention or treatment a brain edema, an intracranial hemorrhage and a cerebral infarction by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for inhibiting a vascular permeability enhancer, which the compound is of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is halogen, --X--R.sup.3 in which X is O, S, NH or NHNH, and R.sup.3 is H, acyl, a hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group, or --Y.dbd.R.sup.4 in which Y is N or NHN, and R.sup.4 is a divalent hydrocarbon group, and R.sup.1 is H, halogen, a hydrocarbon group, a heterocyclic group or --Z--R.sup.5 in which Z is O, S or NH, and R.sup.5 is H, a hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group;

Inhibitor of vascular permeability enhancer

A compound useful for central antioxidant having inhibitory activity of degeneration and necrocytosis of cerebral cells of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A and B are independently (1) a group of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, or R.sub.1 together with R.sub.2 and the nitrogen atom to which they are bound may form a cyclic amino group, provided that both R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are not hydrogen atom at the same time, or (2) a group of the formula: ##STR3## wherein D is O or S, R.sub.3 is hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue or an optionally substituted acyl group, m is 1, 2, or 3 and n is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4;

Aminobenzene compounds to prevent nerve cell degradation

Tricyclic condensed heterocyclic compounds, their production and use

A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon or acyl group; ring A is an optionally further substituted benzene ring; n is an integer of 1 to 10; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are H or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may form an optionally substituted heterocyclic group, taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom; k is an integer of 0 to 3; and m is an integer of 1 to 8; provided that when k=0 and m=2, n is an integer of not less than 2 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, exhibiting excellent cholinesterase inhibitory activity and monoamine reuptake inhibitory activity, thus being useful as therapeutic/prophylactic medicaments of senile dementia.

Condensed heterocyclic ketone derivatives and their use

1. A cyclic amine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein B means a saturated or unsaturated 5- to 7-membered aza-heterocyclic group which may be substituted; A means a bond or an alkylene or alkenylene group which may be substituted by hydrocarbon residues, oxo, hydroxyimino, and/or hydroxy, .sub.-- means either a single bond or a double bond (provided that when A means a bond, .sub.-- means a single bond); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently mean a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted (provided that both of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not hydrogen atoms) or jointly form a cyclic amino group together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, n is 0, 1 or 2 and p is 1 or 2 or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds are useful for therapy of cerebral edema, acute symptoms in cerebral apoplexy and protection of brain and nerve cell, or useful as anticholinesterase or as brain function-improving agent.

Cyclic amine compounds and their use

An aminoketone compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein ring A' means a five through eight-membered cyclic group which may be substituted and may contain one or two hetero atom(s) of O, S, N, as the ring-constituents; R.sup.1' means a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted; R.sup.2' means a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.3' means an aromatic group which may be substituted; R.sup.4' means a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or aromatic group which may be substituted; n' means an integer of 2 to 7, or a salt thereof, is useful as an cholinesterase inhibitors and a cerebral function ameliorating agent.

Method for improving brain function using cholinesterase-inhibiting

1. A cyclic amine compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein B means a saturated or unsaturated 5- to 7-membered aza-heterocyclic group which may be substituted; A means a bond or an alkylene or alkenylene group which may be substituted by hydrocarbon residues, oxo, hydroxyimino, and/or hydroxy, --means either a single bond or a double bond (provided that when A means a bond, --means a single bond); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently mean a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon residue which may be substituted (provided that both of R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not hydrogen atoms) or jointly form a cyclic amino group together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, n is 0, 1 or 2 and p is 1 or 2 or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds are useful for therapy of cerebral edema, acute symptoms in cerebral apoplexy and protection of brain and nerve cell, or useful as anticholinesterase or as brain function-improving agent.

Benzylpiperidine compounds and their use

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Giichi Goto