Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Kenji Akahane

Kinji Iizuka

Tetsuhide Kamijo

Hideaki Umeyama

Yoshiaki Kiso

Tetsuhiro Kubota

Yukiyoshi Ajisawa

Yukio Kamijo

Denichi Momose

Nobuyuki Tanaka

Michihiro Kobayashi

Atsushi Tsubaki

Masaru Saito

Fumiyasu Sato

Hiroshi Hokari

Kaname Morita

Mitsuo Watanabe

Shigeo Arikawa

Succinic acid compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A represents a heterocyclic group, a 3 to 8-membered cycloalkyl group or a phenyl group which may have one or more substituents selected from the group of a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and a lower alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; B represents a bicyclic amino group which may have 1 or 2 unsaturated bonds, with the proviso that B bonds to the carbon atom of the carbonyl group at the nitrogen atom; R represents a hydrogen atom or combines each other to form a chemical bond; R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aralkyl group having 7 to 10 carbon atoms; when there is an asymmetric carbon atom, enantiomers thereof and racemic mixtures thereof; when there are geometrical isomers, each geometrical isomer, E-isomers thereof, Z-isomers thereof, cis-isomers thereof and trans-isomers thereof; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, enhance insulin secretion and possess a hypoglycemic activity, and are thus useful for the treatment of diabetes.

Succinic acid compounds

Novel amino acid derivatives useful as a therapeutic agent are disclosed. These amino acid derivatives and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have a human renin inhibitory effect when administered orally and are useful for treatment of hypertension, especially renin-associated hypertension.

Novel amino acid derivatives

Dipeptides are described which are represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein the various substituents are defined hereinbelow. These compounds have a strong inhibitory efect on human renin, and are useful as a therapeutically active agent for the treatment of hypertension, especially renin-associated hypertension.

Dipeptides as renin inhibitors

New renin inhibitory amino acid derivatives represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are defined as in the specification below or ##STR3## wherein X and Y are defined as in the specification herein below, n represents zero or one, Z represents --O-- or --NH--, and R represents a straight- or branched chain alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as a therapeutic agent are disclosed. The amino acid derivatives have a renin inhibitory effect when administered orally and are useful for treatment of hypertension, especially renin-associated hypertension.

Novel renin inhibitory amino acid derivatives

Amino acid derivatives

Amino acid derivatives represented by formula ##STR1## wherein His represents an L-histidyl group, X represents a straight or branched alkoxy group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a straight or branched alkylamino group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyloxy group having 3 to 7 carbon atoms, a morpholino group, said alkoxy group having one or more halogen atoms as substituents; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, are useful in the treatment of hypertension.

Morpholine containing amino acid derivatives

Histidine derivatives

4-(1-Imidazolylmethyl)cinnamic acid hydrochloride monohydrate of the formula: ##STR1## and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compound. The imidazole derivative above has a strong and specific inhibitory effect on thromboxane synthetase from human or bovine platelet microsomes, and is useful as a therapeutical agent for inflammation, hypertension, thrombus, cerebral apoplexy, and asthma.

4-(1-imidazolylmethyl)cinnamic acid hydrochloride monohydrate and

The imidazole compounds of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Y is a carboxyl group, a hydroxymethyl group, an N-di or -mono alkyl substituted or unsubstituted carbamoyl group, a cyano group, or an N-di or -mono alkyl substituted or unsubstituted aminomethyl group, and n is an integer of 3 to 20; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds have a strong inhibitory effect on thromboxane synthetase from rabbit platelet microsomes, and are useful as therapeutically active agents for inflammation, hypertension, thrombus, cerebral apoplexy and asthma.

Inhibiton of thromboxane synthetase with 1-substituted imidazole

Novel imidazole derivatives of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Y is a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cyano group, a hydroxymethyl group, an aminomethyl group, a formyl group or a carbamoyl group, and A and B, which may be the same or different, each is a straight- or branched-chain alkylene or alkenylene group, and n and m, which may be the same or different, each is zero or 1, with the proviso that when A is methylene group or n is zero, m is 1; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds have a strong inhibitory effect on thromboxane synthetase from rabbit platelet microsomes, and are useful as therapeutically active agents for the treatment of inflammation, hypertension, thrombus, cerebral apoplexy and asthma.

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Kenji Akahane