Lipha, Lyonnaise Industrielle Pharmaceutique

Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Philippe Briet

Jean-Jacques Berthelon

Jean-Claude Depin

Francois Collonges

Eugene Boschetti

Yves Bonhomme

Janine Chabert

A pharmaceutical composition comprising: (i) metformin, optionally in the form one of its pharmaceutically acceptable salts; (ii) a fibrate selected from fenofibrate and bezafibrate; and optionally one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, is suitable for use in the treatment of non-insulin-dependent diabetes.

Pharmaceutical composition comprising a combination of metformin and fibrate, and its use for the preparation of medicines intended to reduce hyperglycaemia

Substituted six-membered benzo-fused heterocycles of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which: X=0, NH, S.fwdarw.(O).sub.n (n=0 or 2);

Pharmaceutically useful flavonoic compounds containing at least one

The invention concerns [oxo-4-4H-[1]-benzopyran-8-yl]-alcanoic acids and their derivatives, their manufacture, represented by the formula. ##STR1## where AR is hydrogen, a phenyl radical which may or may not be substituted thenyl, furyl, naphthyl, a lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl radical; B is a linear or branched lower alkyl radical, either saturated or ethylinically unsaturated; R.sub.1 is hydrogen or a phenyl radical; X is hydrogen or a lower alkyl or alkoxy radical and n=1, as well as salts, esters, aminoesters and amides. Compounds and their derivatives may be used as medicines, in particular in the control of tumors.

[Oxo-4-4H-[1]-benzopyran-8-yl]alcanoic acids, salts and derivatives,

The invention concerns: (oxo-4-4H-(1)-benzopyran-8-yl) alkanoic acids and their derivatives, their manufacture, represented by the formula: ##STR1## where Ar is hydrogen, a phenyl radical which may or may not be substituted, thenyl, furyl, naphthyl, a lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl radical; B is a linear or branched lower alkyl radical, either saturated or ethylinically unsaturated; R.sub.1 is hydrogen or a phenyl radical; X is hydrogen or a lower alkyl or alkoxy radical and n=1, as well as salts, esters, aminoesters and amides. Compounds and their derivatives may be used as medicines, in particular in the control of tumors.

(Oxo-4-4H-(1)-benzopyran-8-yl) alkanoic acids, salts and derivatives,

Novel 3-substituted-4-aminoalkoxy-5,6-condensed ring-2-pyranones are disclosed as having utility as pharmacologically active compounds, in particular vasodilatory, hypotensive, anti-ischemic and anti-tussive activity. The compounds may be 3-phenyl-4-morpholinoalkoxy-coumarins. Administration may be by the oral or parenteral route. Intermediates useful in the production of these compounds are also disclosed.

3-Substituted-4-aminoalkoxy-5,6-condensed ring-2-pyranones

Substituted hexahydro benzopyrano [3,2-c] pyridines, useful as antidepressants, have the formula ##STR1## where R is hydrogen or a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched, lower alkyl, or an aralkyl, acyl, dialkylaminoalkyl, carbonylalkyl, alkoxycarbonyl, haloalkoxycarbonyl or aryl radical; R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen, or lower alkoxy; R.sub.2 is hydrogen or halogen; R.sub.3 is hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, alkoxy nitro or amino, or forms naphthalene with R.sub.4 and the benzene ring; R.sub.4 is hydrogen, a halogen, or forms naphthalene with R.sub.3 and the benzene ring; R.sub.5 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, or aralkyl.

Antidepressant substituted hexahydro benzopyrano [3,2-c] pyridines

Propionic acids and their functional derivatives having anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties correspond to the formula ##STR1## in which X is selected from phenyl, halophenyl, polyhalophenyl, lower alkylphenyl, trihalomethylphenyl, aryloxyphenyl, furyl and thienyl and R is selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower omega-hydroxyalkyl, morpholinoethyl and lower dialkylaminoalkyl.

6',2-(2'Arylchromonyl) propionic acids, and analgesic and

6',2-(2'-Arylchromonyl) propionic acids, and analgesic and

The compound .alpha.-[6-(2-phenyl)-chromonyl]-acetic acid has choleretic and anti-inflammatory activity and is of use in the treatment of hepatic conditions.

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