105 results about "Pregnane" patented technology

This invention describes compounds of Structures 1, 2, and 3 and their use as allosteric modulators of the GABA receptor chloride ionophore complex to alleviate stress, anxiety, mood disorders, seizures, depression, treatment of drug and alcohol abuse, memory, premenstrual disorders, and neural system damage.

Provided herein are 3,3-disubstituted 19-nor-steroidal compounds according to Formula (I) and (III):where R1, R2, R3, R3′, R4, R6a, R6a, R11a, and R11b are as defined herein. Compounds of the present invention are contemplated useful for the prevention and treatment of a variety of CNS-related conditions, for example, treatment of sleep disorders, mood disorders, insomnia, anxiety, depression, traumatic brain injury (TBI), stress, and epilepsy.

The present invention provides new compositions and methods for treating and / or reversing organophosphate intoxication, manifested by both cholinergic and non-cholinergic crisis, in a mammal resulting from exposure to organophosphate compounds. The neurosteroidal compounds of this invention are those having the general structural formula of pregnane, androstane, 19-norandrostanes, and norpregnane with further moieties as defined herein. These compounds include, but are not limited to, ganaxolone, pregnanolone, and androstanediol and their analogs, salts and prodrugs. The present invention further relates to combining a therapeutically effective amount of a neurosteroidal compound with a standard organophosphate antidote (e.g. atropine, pralidoxime). The data suggests that neurosteroids are effective or more effective than benzodiazepines, whether given earlier or later than 40-min (up to several hours) after organophosphate compound exposure. Neurosteroids are effective to attenuate long-term neuropsychiatric deficits caused by organophosphate exposure.

The invention discloses a lithocholic acid synthesis method, which comprises the following steps: by using 21-hydroxy-20-methyl pregnane-4-ene-3-ketone (BA) as a raw material, carrying out an oxidation reaction and a Wittig reaction, and carrying out a reduction reaction to synthesize lithocholic acid; or after the oxidation reaction and the Wittig reaction, carrying out a hydrogenation reduction reaction, a carbonyl reduction reaction and a hydrolysis reaction to synthesize the lithocholic acid. The lithocholic acid synthesis method has the advantages of environmental protection, simple steps, few side reactions, high yield, cheap and easily available raw materials, and suitableness for industrial production; the method solves the problems of high synthesis cost, low yield and unsuitability for large-scale industrial production in the prior art.

The present invention refers to steroid derivatives for use as medicaments. More specifically, the invention also relates to the use of a steroid derivative of 5-androstene-, 5-pregnenolone or corresponding saturated derivatives (androstane- or pregnane-) in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of a benign and / or malignant tumour, which medicament is capable of interrupting disturbances in Wut-signaling, such as cell-cycle arrest in G1-phase, and / or providing an angiostatic effect. Examples of such steroid derivatives are -5-androstene-17-ol, androstane-17-ol-pregnane-17-ol or pregnane-17-ol derivatives. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a method of producing a medicament for the treatment of a benign and / or malignant tumour and / or an inflammatory condition comprising the steps of contacting 5-androstane-3B,17-dio 1 or androstane-3B-diol, an enzyme and a sulfotransferase to provide 5-androstene-17-ol-3B-sulfate or corresponding andros tane derivative (17-AEDS or 17-AADS); and mixing the 17-AEDS or 17-AADS so produced with a suitable carrier; whereby a medicament which is capable of acting as a ligand to peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor—(PPAR) is produced.