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Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale

Université Louis Pasteur

Jacek Ostrowski

Peter R Reczek

Pierre H Chambon

Hinrich Gronemeyer

Fred Christopher Zusi

The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating an animal, preferably a human, suffering from or predisposed to a physical disorder by administering an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one RAR antagonist, preferably an RAR&agr; antagonist, and at least one RXR agonist. The combination of an RXR agonist, which has no therapeutic effects alone, with an RAR antagonist allows the use of lower doses of the RAR antagonist than were previously thought to be efficacious; this approach obviates many of the undesirable physiological side-effects of treatment with RAR antagonists.

Therapeutic combinations of RAR antagonists and RXR agonists and use thereof

The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating an animal, preferably a human, suffering from or predisposed to a physical disorder by administering an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one RAR antagonist, preferably an RAR.alpha. antagonist, and at least one RXR agonist. The combination of an RXR agonist, which has no therapeutic effects alone, with an RAR antagonist allows the use of lower doses of the RAR antagonist than were previously thought to be efficacious; this approach obviates many of the undesirable physiological side-effects of treatment with RAR antagonists.

Therapeutic combinations of RAR antagonists and RXR agonists and use

The present invention relates to a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is --CONH-- or --NHCO--, or a nontoxic pharmaceutically acceptable salt, physiologically hydrolyzable ester or solvate thereof. The compounds of the present invention exhibit retinoid-like properties and are thus useful as antiinflammatory agents for chronic skin inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, as agents for the treatment of rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, as antitumor agents for the treatment of various tumors, and as agents for the treatment of non-malignant proliferative skin conditions.

Retinoid-like compounds

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