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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1997
William Pendergast, Durham, NC (US);
Benjamin R Yerxa, Raleigh, NC (US);
Janet L Rideout, Raleigh, NC (US);
Suhaib M Siddiqi, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
The present invention encompasses structures of the formula ##STR1## wherein: X is oxygen, methylene, or difluoromethylene; n=0 or 1; m=0 or 1; n+m=0, 1 or 2; and B and B' are each independently a purine residue or a pyrimidine residue linked through the 9- or 1-position, respectively, provided that compounds disclosed in Table I are excluded. In the instance where B and B' are uracil, attached at the N-1 position to the ribosyl moiety, then the total of m+n may equal 3 or 4 when X is oxygen. The compounds of the present invention are highly selective agonists of the P2Y.sub.2 purinergic receptor, thus, they are useful in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases such as chronic bronchitis, PCD, cystic fibrosis, as well as prevention of pneumonia due to immobility. Furthermore, because of their general ability to clear retained mucus secretions and stimulate ciliary beat frequency, the compounds of the present invention are also useful in the treatment of sinusitis and otitis media.