Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Wyeth

Signal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Robert Warren Sullivan

Eugene D Thorsett

Andrei William Konradi

Michael A Pleiss

Christopher Michael Semko

Christopher Joseph Soares

Kiev S Ly

Dimitrios Sarantakis

Susan Ashwell

Anthony Frank Kreft

Mark J Suto

Gregory Scott Welmaker

Christine M Tarby

Mark E Goldman

Moorthy S Palanki

Leah M Gayo

Lynn J Ransone-Fong

Disclosed are compounds which bind VLA-4. Certain of these compounds also inhibit leukocyte adhesion and, in particular, leukocyte adhesion mediated by VLA-4. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases in a mammalian patient, e.g., human, such as asthma, Alzheimer's disease, antherosclerosis. AIDS dementia, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, tissue transplantation, tumor metastasis and myocardial ischemia. The compounds can also be administered for the treatment of inflammatory brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

Compounds which inhibit leukocyte adhesion mediated by VLA-4

Disclosed are compounds which bind VLA-4. Certain of these compounds also inhibit leukocyte adhesion and, in particular, leukocyte adhesion mediated by VLA-4. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases in a mammalian patient, e.g., human, such as asthma, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, AIDS dementia, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, tissue transplantation, tumor metastasis and myocardial ischemia. The compounds can also be administered for the treatment of inflammatory brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

Compounds having utility as antinflammatory agents in general and, more specifically, for the prevention and/or treatment of immunoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases are disclosed. The compounds are pyrimidine- or pyrazine-containing compounds and, in one embodiment, are carboxyamides of the same. Methods are also disclosed for preventing and/or treating inflammatory conditions by administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of this invention, preferably in the form of a pharmaceutical composition.

Pyrimidine carboxamides and related compounds and methods for treating

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