Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Marcelo Fabian Piccirillo

Cheryl Geraldine Lassen

The present invention relates to certain compounds of Formula Ia and pharmaceutical compositions thereof and their use in methods for the alleviation and/or treatment of visceral pain, for example abdominal pain; pelvic pain; male pelvic pain; pain from an internal organ; bladder pain; painful bladder syndrome; post-surgical abdominal pain (e.g., GI resection, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, C-section, and the like); or pain arising from or related to: pancreatitis (e.g., chronic pancreatitis), prostatitis (e.g., chronic prostatitis), inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease), endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, prostatitis (e.g., chronic prostatitis), epididymitis (e.g., chronic epididymitis), or post-surgical abdominal lesions. In some embodiments, the visceral pain is consequent to inflammatory bowel disease, for example Crohn's disease.

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Marcelo Fabian Piccirillo