Smithkline Beecham Corporation

Smithkline Beckman Corporation

Sb Laboratoires Pharmaceutiques

Henry M Sarau

Robert S Ames

James J Foley

Derk J Bergsma

Ganesh Madhusudan Sathe

Catherine E Ellis

Jonathan K Chambers

Jon Chambers

John G Gleason

Paul E Bender

Stephanie Van Horn

Usman Shabon

Don Edgar Griswold

Ping Tsui

Wendy S Halsey

Nabil Hanna

Anne Romanic Arnold

Laura R Fitzgerald

Steven M Ruben

Nabil A Elshourbagy

Ivan Lantos

Edward Robert Appelbaum

John Richard White

Robert N Willette

Charles M Kinzig

Susan C Shilcrat

Nassirah Khandoudi

Nambi V Aiyar

Kazys A Razgaitis

Seymour Mong

Sylvia T Hoffstein

Brian R Stewart

Bernard Gout

Stephen A Douglas

Kamal Al-Barazanji

Chandrika Saidapet-Kumar

HMTMF81 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing HMTMF81 polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of infections such as bacterial, fungal, protozoan and viral infections, particularly infections caused by HIV-1 or HIV-2; pain; cancers; anorexia; bulimia; asthma; Parkinson's disease; acute heart failure; hypotension; hypertension; urinary retention; osteoporosis; angina pectoris; myocardial infarction; ulcers; asthma; allergies; benign prostatic hypertrophy; and psychotic and neurological disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, delirium, dementia, severe mental retardation and dyskinesias, such as Huntington's disease or Gilles dela Tourett's syndrome, among others and diagnostic assays for such conditions.

HMTF81 human 7-transmembrane receptor

HOFNH30 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing HOFNH30 polypeptides and polynucleotides in terapy, and diagnostic assays for such.

Human G protein coupled lysophosphatidic acid receptor

Human G-Protein Coupled Receptor HNFDS78 polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding such G-Protein Coupled Receptor HNFDS78 and a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such G-Protein Coupled Receptor HNFDS78 for the treatment of diseases, such as, atherosclerosis, inflammatory disease, and infectious disease. Antagonists against such G-Protein Coupled Receptor HNFDS78 and their use as a therapeutic to treat disease are also disclosed. Also disclosed are diagnostic assays for detecting diseases related to mutations in the nucleic acid sequences and altered concentrations of the polypeptides. Also disclosed are diagnostic assays for detecting mutations in the polynucleotides encoding G-protein coupled receptors and for detecting altered levels of the polypeptide in a host.

Nucleic acids encoding the G-protein coupled receptor HNFDS78

Disclosed are methods for discovering agonists and antagonists of the interaction between UDP-glucose, UDP-galactose, UDP-glucuronic acid, UDP-N-acetyl glucosamine, as well as related UDP sugars, and their cellular receptor, human KIAA0001, which may have utility in the treatment of several human diseases and disorders, including, but not limited to: infections such as bacterial, fungal, protozoan and viral infections, particularly infections caused by HIV-1 or HIV-2; pain; cancers; diabetes, obesity; anorexia; bulimia; asthma; Parkinson's disease; acute heart failure; hypotension; hypertension; urinary retention; osteoporosis; angina pectoris; myocardial infarction; restenosis; atherosclerosis; diseases characterized by excessive smooth muscle cell proliferation; aneurysms; wound healing; diseases characterized by loss of smooth muscle cells or reduced smooth muscle cell proliferation; stroke; ischemia; ulcers; asthma; allergies; benign prostatic hypertrophy; migraine; vomiting; psychotic and neurological disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, depression, delirium, dementia, and severe mental retardation; degenerative diseases, such as neurodegenerative diseases and dyskinesias, such as Huntington's disease or Gilles dela Tourett's syndrome, among others.

Methods of screening for agonists and antagonists of the interaction between the human KIAA0001 receptor and ligands thereof

HMTMF81 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing HMTMF81 polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of infections such as bacterial, fungal, protozoan and viral infections, particularly infections caused by HIV-1 or HIV-2; anorexia; bulimia; asthma; Parkinson's disease; acute heart failure; hypotension; hypertension; urinary retention; osteoporosis; angina pectoris, myocardial infarction; ulcers; asthma; allergies; benign prostatic hypertrophy; and psychotic and neurological disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, delirium, dementia, severe mental retardation and dyskinesias, such as Huntington's disease or Gilles dela Tourett's syndrome, among others and diagnostic assays for such conditions.

cDNA clone HMTMF81 that encodes a novel human 7-transmembrane receptor

Human GPR14 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing Human GPR14 polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of ischemic coronary artery disease (angina and myocardial infarction); atherosclerosis; metabolic diseases (e.g. diabetes); CHF/myocardial dysfunction; arrhythmias; restenosis; hypertension; hypotension; pulmonary disease (hypertension, COPD, asthma); fibrotic vasculopathies (diabetes, SLE, AS, Reynaud's); cerebrovascular events (e.g. hemnorrhagic and ischemic stroke); neurogenic inflammation/migraine; hematopoictic disorders; ARDS; cancer; autoimmune diseases (e.g. HIV-1 and -2 infection and AIDS); gastrointestinal and genitourinary disturbances (e.g. ulcers) endocrine disorders; fibroproliferative disorders (e.g. psoriasis); inflammatory disease (e.g. RA, Crohn's, IBS); benign prostatic hypertrophy; renal failure and glomerulopathies; disease states, both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular, which are characterized by excessive vasoconstriction, myocardial dysfunction and/or aberrant fibroproliferative/inflammatory responses; psychotic and neurological disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, delirium, dementia, severe mental retardation, Parkinson's disease, and dyskinesias, infections such as bacterial, fungal, protozoan and viral infections; pain; eating disorders, such as obesity, anorexia, and bulimia; asthma; urinary retention; osteoporosis; allergies; Huntington's disease or Gilles dela Tourett's syndrome, among others and diagnostic assays for such conditions.

Method of finding agonist and antagonist to human and rat GPR14

Disclosed are methods for discovering agonists and antagonists of the interaction between a secreted human protein, chemokine CK.beta.-9, and its cellular receptor, human CCR7, which may have utility in the treatment of several human diseases, including, but not limited to: allergic disorders, autoimmune diseases, ischemia/reperfusion injury, development of atherosclerotic plaques, cancer (including mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells for use in chemotherapy or mycloprotection during chemotherapy), chronic inflammatory disorders, chronic rejection of transplanted organs or tissue grafts, chronic myelogenous leukemia, and infection by HIV and other pathogens.

Methods of screening for agonists and antagonists for human CCR7

Human GPR14 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing Human GPR14 polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of infections such as bacterial, fungal, protozoan and viral infections, particularly infections caused by HIV-1 or HIV-2; pain; cancers; anorexia; bulimia; asthma; Parkinson's disease; acute heart failure; hypotension; hypertension; urinary retention; osteoporosis; angina pectoris; myocardial infarction; ulcers; asthma; allergies; benign prostatic hypertrophy; and psychotic and neurological disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, delirium, dementia, severe mental retardation and dyskinesias, such as Huntington's disease or Gilles dela Tourett's syndrome, among others and diagnostic assays for such conditions.

GPR14 polypeptides

Human C3a Receptor polypeptides and DNA (RNA) encoding such C3a Receptor and a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such C3a Receptor for the treatment of inflammatory and auto-immune disorders, among others. Antagonists against such C3a Receptor and their use as a therapeutic to treat inflammatory and auto-immune disorders, among others, are also disclosed. Also disclosed are diagnostic assays for detecting diseases related to mutations in the nucleic acid sequences and altered concentrations of the polypeptides. Also disclosed are diagnostic assays for detecting mutations in the polynucleotides encoding the C3a Receptor and for detecting altered levels of the polypeptide in a host.

Therapeutic and screening methods using C3a receptor and C3a

A method of inhibiting the 5-lipoxygenase pathway in an animal in need thereof which comprises administering an effective, 5-lipoxygenase pathway inhibiting amount of a diaryl- substituted imidazole fused to a thiazole pyrrolidine, thiazide or piperidine ring to such animal.

Inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase pathway

A method for inhibiting the effects of LTB.sub.4 comprises administration of an effective amount of a compound represented by the following structural formula (I) ##STR1## wherein m is 1 or 2; n is 1, 2 or 3; p is 0, 1, or 2; R' is hydrogen or methyl; R is phenyl substituted with A, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently selected from either (1) (S).sub.a --(CH.sub.2).sub.b --(T).sub.c --B wherein a is 0 or 1; b is 5 to 12; c is 0 or 1; S and T are independently sulfur, oxygen, or CH.sub.2 with the proviso that S or T are not sulfur when p is 1 or 2; and B is C.sub.1-4 alkyl, ethynyl, trifluoromethyl, or phenyl optionally monosubstituted with Br, Cl, CF.sub.3, C.sub.1-4 alkoxy, C.sub.1-4 alkyl, methylthio, or trifluoromethylthio; or (2) hydrogen bromo, chloro, methyl, trifluoromethyl, methoxy or nitro; and A is selected from (2) as defined above or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Such methods are useful in the treatment of diseases in which LTB.sub.4 is a factor.

Leukotriene antagonists

Novel compounds, compositions and pharmaceutical a method of inhibiting the 5-lipoxygenase pathway in an animal in need thereof which comprising administering an effective, 5-lipoxygenase pathway inhibiting amount of a 4,5-diaryl-2(substituted)-imidazole or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase products

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Henry M Sarau