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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1992
Filed:
May. 10, 1991
Leland J Chinn, Montebello, CA (US);
Bipinchandra N Desai, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Richard A Mueller, Glencoe, IL (US);
G. D. Searle & Co., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
This invention encompasses compounds and methods for inhibiting lipoxygenase and includes a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutical carrier and an effective lipoxygenase inhibiting amount of a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein the substituents are defined below. The compounds and pharmaceutical formulations of the present invention are 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors and, therefore, are useful in the treatment of local and systemic inflammation, allergy and hypersensitivity reactions and other disorders in which agents formed in the 5-lipoxygenase metabolic pathway are involved.