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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:
Jun. 18, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael C Minchin, Oxford, GB;
John F White, Wokingham, GB;
Assignee:
John Wyeth & Brother, Limited, Maidenhead, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ; C07D / ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
562433 ; 564176 ; 564172 ; 546300 ; 546167 ; 546173 ; 549462 ; 549 29 ; 549 73 ; 549496 ; 548187 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a method for treating depression or senile dementia using a compound which acts selectively as an agonist of gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) at GABA autoreceptors with the proviso that the compound is not fengabine and progabide.