131 results about "Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor" patented technology

According to the present invention, the gene for IL-13, an anti-inflammatory cytokine, was shown to be a target of prostacyclin (PGI₂)-activated Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) δ. Furthermore, the PGI₂-PPARδ signaling pathway was revealed to regulate the expression of IL-13 gene in human vascular endothelial cells, and controls inflammatory responses induced by proinflammatory cytokines through the production of IL-13 in an autocrine or paracrine manner. Thus, the present invention provides a method for treating or preventing inflammatory disorders, which comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of PPARδ agonist into a subject. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for treating or preventing inflammatory disorders, which comprises administering a prostacyclin synthase gene or a protein encoded by the gene into a subject.

The present invention is directed to a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, hydrate or stereoisomer thereof, which is useful in treating or preventing disorders mediated by a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) such as syndrome X, type II diabetes, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, obesity, coagaulopathy, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and other disorders related to syndrome X and cardiovascular diseases.

The present invention relates to novel ketone compounds, compositions comprising ketone compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemias, dysproteinemias, and glucose metabolism disorders comprising administering a composition comprising a ketone compound. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are also useful for treating and preventing Alzheimer's Disease, Syndrome X, peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-related disorders, septicemia, thrombotic disorders, obesity, pancreatitis, hypertension, renal disease, cancer, inflammation, and impotence. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.

The present invention provides a method for screening or identifying therapeutic or prophylactic agents for renal diseases, which comprises assaying a test substance for the activity of up-regulating the expression of fatty acid-binding protein (FABP), and novel mouse proximal renal tubular epithelial cell lines useful therein. The present invention also provides therapeutic or prophylactic agents for renal diseases comprising, as an active ingredient, an agent having activity of up-regulating FABP expression; agents for up-regulating the expression of FABP, and for treating or preventing renal diseases, which comprise a compound having activity of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist or carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) inhibitor or the like.

A compound represented by the following general formula (I):

• • (wherein R¹ represents phenyl, etc. which can have substituents selected from the group consisting of C_1-8 alkyl, C_1-8 alkyl having halogen, halogen, hydroxyl, etc.; R² represents C_1-8 alkyl, etc.; A represents oxygen, sulfur, etc.; X represents C_1-8 alkylene chain, etc.; Y represents C(═O), CH═CH, etc.; R³, R⁴, and R⁵ each represents hydrogen, C_1-8 alkyl, etc.; B represents CH or nitrogen; Z represents oxygen or sulfur; R⁶ and R⁷ each represents hydrogen, C_1-8 alkyl, etc.; and R⁸ represents hydrogen or C_1-8 alkyl; provided that at least one of R³, R⁴, and R⁵ is not hydrogen) or a salt of the compound; and a PPAR-δ activator which contains the compound or salt as the active ingredient.

The present invention relates to novel ketone compounds, compositions comprising ketone compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemias, dysproteinemias, and glucose metabolism disorders comprising administering a composition comprising a ketone compound. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are also useful for treating and preventing Alzheimer's Disease, Syndrome X, peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-related disorders, septicemia, thrombotic disorders, obesity, pancreatitis, hypertension, renal disease, cancer, inflammation, and impotence. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.

A method for activating an efferent sympathetic nerve innervating an adipose tissue and improving obesity-associated symptoms is provided, comprising stimulating an afferent vagal nerve from the liver without directly enhancing peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-γ2 function in the liver.

The present invention relates to novel cycloalkyl-hydroxyl compounds, compositions comprising hydroxyl compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing a variety of diseases and conditions such as, but not limited to aging, Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, a disorder of glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia, dyslipoproteinemia, hypertension, impotence, inflammation, insulin resistance, lipid elimination in bile, obesity, oxysterol elimination in bile, pancreatitis, Parkinson's disease, a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-associated disorder, phospholipid elimination in bile, renal disease, septicemia, Syndrome X, thrombotic disorder. Compounds and methods of the invention can also be used to modulate C reactive protein or enhance bile production in a patient. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.

The invention provides use of a mangiferin calcium salt as a PPARs excitant. The structural formula of the mangiferin calcium salt is as shown on the right.

The present invention provides a method for screening a substance having a thermogenesis enhancing effect containing a compound having an effect activating PPAR δ, an agent containing the compound, and an agent having antidiabetic, antiobestic or visceral accumulated fat-lowering function.

The present invention provides an agent containing a compound having an effect activating PPAR δ, which is a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor, and having effects which enhances nonshivering thermogenesis (nST), specifically enhances uncoupling respiration in mitochondria of cells in an adipose tissue or the like, or proton leak in inner membranes of mitochondria, and increases the amount of expression of UCP1, and provides an antidiabetic agent, an antiobestic gent and a visceral accumulated fat-lowering agent containing the compound. Further, the present invention provides a method for screening the compound by measuring a PPAR δ activating effect.

The invention encompasses novel sulfide and disulfide compounds, compositions comprising sulfide and disulfide compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemias, dysproteinemias, and glucose metabolism disorders comprising administering a composition comprising an ether compound. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are also useful for treating and preventing Alzheimer's Disease, Syndrome X, peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-related disorders, septicemia, thrombotic disorders, obesity, pancreatitis, hypertension, renal disease, cancer, inflammation, and impotence. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.

The present invention relates to a composition for external skin application having a skin-moisturizing effect, which comprises gallocatechin gallate as an active ingredient. More particularly, the composition for external skin application comprises gallocatechin gallate as an active ingredient to activate peroxisome proliferator activated receptor isoform alpha (PPAR-α), to stimulate expression of filaggrin and involucrin that are skin-moisturizing factors, and thus to provide excellent anti-drying and skin-moisturizing effects. More particularly, the composition for external skin application may further comprise theobromine and quercetin in addition to gallocatechin gallate to maximize such effects.

The invention relates to the field of medicines which are related to diabetes. Specifically, the invention relates to a compound containing an adamantane tetranitrazoleacetic acid structure, which is as shown in a general formula I, has a treatment effect against the diabetes and is used as a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist, as well as a preparation method and an application in the aspect of treating the diabetes, wherein the groups are as defined in the specification.

The present invention relates to novel sulfoxide and bis-sulfoxide compounds, compositions comprising sulfoxide and bis-sulfoxide compounds, and methods useful for treating and preventing cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemias, dysproteinemias, and glucose metabolism disorders comprising administering a composition comprising an ether compound. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are also useful for treating and preventing Alzheimer's Disease, Syndrome X, peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-related disorders, septicemia, thrombotic disorders, obesity, pancreatitis, hypertension, renal disease, cancer, inflammation, and impotence. In certain embodiments, the compounds, compositions, and methods of the invention are useful in combination therapy with other therapeutics, such as hypocholesterolemic and hypoglycemic agents.

The invention relates to the field of medicines which are related to diabetes. Specifically, the invention relates to a compound containing an adamantane tetranitrazoleacetic acid structure, which is as shown in a general formula I, has a treatment effect against the diabetes and is used as a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist, as well as a preparation method and an application in the aspect of treating the diabetes, wherein the groups are as defined in the specification.

A method for treating demyelinating diseases in a patient in need thereof by treatment with an effective amount of a PPAR delta agonist is disclosed. Demyelinating diseases that may be effectively treated by this method include but are not limited to multiple sclerosis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, encephalomyelitis, neuromyelitis optica, adrenoleukodystrophy, Guillian-Barre syndrome and disorders in which myelin forming glial cells are damaged including spinal cord injuries, neuropathies and nerve injury.

The invention provides a genetic marker relevant to the high altitude hypoxia adaptability of Tibetan sheep. The genetic marker is positioned on a PPAR (peroxisome proliferator activated receptor) alpha gene, and a concrete nucleotide sequence is as shown in a sequence table SEQ ID No. 1; in the nucleotide sequence of the sequence table SEQ ID No. 1, when an allelic gene is A, the high altitude hypoxia adaptability of the Tibetan sheep is poor; when the allelic gene is B, the high altitude hypoxia adaptability of the Tibetan sheep is good. The Tibetan sheep are taken as research objects, a PCR(Polymerase Chain Reaction)-SSCP (single-stranded conformational polymorphism) method is adopted to combine with DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sequencing technology so as to research the genetic variation characteristics of PPAR alpha genes of 2 sheep groups, and in the high altitude hypoxia adaptability, the molecular markers of the Tibetan sheep are initially screened out to provide foundation for subsequent relativity analyses.

The present invention relates to a novel fused bicyclic heteroaryl derivative or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which has an excellent hypoglycemic effect or treats and/or prevents the onset of a disorder of carbohydrate or lipid metabolism or a disease mediated by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) γ.

A compound having the general formula (I):

wherein

• • R¹ represents a C₁-C₆ alkyl group, a C₆-C₁₀ aryl group which may be substituted with 1 to 5 group(s) independently selected from Substituent Group a, or the like; R² represents a C₁-C₆ alkyl group; R³ represents a C₆-C₁₀ aryl group which may be substituted with 1 to 5 group(s) independently selected from Substituent Group a, or the like; Q represents a group represented by the formula ═CH— or a nitrogen atom; and Substituent Group a represents a halogen atom, a C₁-C₆ alkyl group, a C₁-C₆ hydroxyalkyl group, and the like, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.

The present invention is directed to a compound of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates or stereoisomers thereof, which are useful in treating or preventing disorders mediated by a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) such as syndrome X, type II diabetes, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, obesity, coagaulopathy, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and other disorders related to syndrome X and cardiovascular diseases.

The present invention provides compositions, therapeutic combinations and methods including: (a) at least one peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor activator; and (b) at least one substituted azetidinone or substituted β-lactam sterol absorption inhibitor which can be useful for treating vascular conditions, diabetes, obesity and lowering plasma levels of sterols.