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| 20090042939 | Methods and Compositions Using Cholinesterase Inhibitors - The invention provides methods for treating and/or preventing Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric illnesses, encephalitis, meningitis, fetal alcohol syndrome, Karsakoff's syndrome, anoxic brain injury, cardiopulmonary resuscitation injuries, diabetes, Sjogren's syndrome, mental retardation, developmental delay, menopause, strokes, macular degeneration, neuronal loss associated with macular degeneration, sleep disorders, severe Alzheimer's disease, jet lag, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, amnesia, and other disorders by administering to a patient in need thereof at least one cholinesterase inhibitor. The invention also provides novel pharmaceutical compositions that can be administered to the eyes or to the nose of patients. In one embodiment, the cholinesterase inhibitor is donepezil, a stereoisomer thereof and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In other embodiments, the cholinesterase inhibitor can be one or more of phenserine, tolserine, phenethylnorcymserine, ganstigmine, epastigmine, tacrine, physostigmine, pyridostigmine, neostigmine, rivastigmine, galantamine, citicoline, velnacrine, huperzine, metrifonate, heptastigmine, edrophonium, TAK-147, T-82, and upreazine. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090042940 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS USING CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS - The invention provides methods for treating and/or preventing Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric illnesses, encephalitis, meningitis, fetal alcohol syndrome, Karsakoff's syndrome, anoxic brain injury, cardiopulmonary resuscitation injuries, diabetes, Sjogren's syndrome, mental retardation, developmental delay, menopause, strokes, macular degeneration, neuronal loss associated with macular degeneration, sleep disorders, severe Alzheimer's disease, jet lag, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, amnesia, and other disorders by administering to a patient in need thereof at least one cholinesterase inhibitor. The invention also provides novel pharmaceutical compositions that can be administered to the eyes or to the nose of patients. In one embodiment, the cholinesterase inhibitor is donepezil, a stereoisomer thereof and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In other embodiments, the cholinesterase inhibitor can be one or more of phenserine, tolserine, phenethylnorcymserine, ganstigmine, epastigmine, tacrine, physostigmine, pyridostigmine, neostigmine, rivastigmine, galantamine, citicoline, velnacrine, huperzine, metrifonate, heptastigmine, edrophonium, TAK-147, T-82, and upreazine. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20110053981 | Methods and Compositions Using Cholinesterase Inhibitors - The invention provides methods for treating and/or preventing Alzheimer's disease, psychiatric illnesses, encephalitis, meningitis, fetal alcohol syndrome, Karsakoff's syndrome, anoxic brain injury, cardiopulmonary resuscitation injuries, diabetes, Sjogren's syndrome, mental retardation, developmental delay, menopause, strokes, macular degeneration, neuronal loss associated with macular degeneration, sleep disorders, severe Alzheimer's disease, jet lag, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, amnesia, and other disorders by administering to a patient in need thereof at least one cholinesterase inhibitor. The invention also provides novel pharmaceutical compositions that can be administered to the eyes or to the nose of patients. In one embodiment, the cholinesterase inhibitor is donepezil, a stereoisomer thereof and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In other embodiments, the cholinesterase inhibitor can be one or more of phenserine, tolserine, phenethylnorcymserine, ganstigmine, epastigmine, tacrine, physostigmine, pyridostigmine, neostigmine, rivastigmine, galantamine, citicoline, velnacrine, huperzine, metrifonate, heptastigmine, edrophonium, TAK-147, T-82, and upreazine. | 03-03-2011 |
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| 20080234325 | Novel Methods Using Pyridine Derivatives - The invention provides methods of treating and preventing asthma, laryngitis, symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease, pregnancy-induced gastroesophageal reflux disease, noncardiac chest pains, coughing, apnea, dyspepsia, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, gastritis, stress ulcers, bleeding peptic ulcers, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, infectious enteritis, collagenous colitis, lymphocytic colitis, chronic diarrhea in immunocompromised patients, esophageal ulcers in immunocompromised patients, idiopathic gastric acid hypersecretion, gastroparesis, gastrointestinal motility disorders, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, short bowel syndrome, emesis, regurgitation, early satiety, chronic sore throat, abdominal pain, abdominal bloating, nausea, sour stomach, diarrhea, constipation, bacterial infections, refractory ulcers, gastrointestinal disorders induced by NSAIDs, Barrett's esophagus, gastrointestinal disorders caused by steroids, gastrointestinal disorders induced by cholinergic compounds, and fungal or viral-induced ulcers in the gastrointestinal tract by administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one of the pyridine derivatives of the invention to a patient in need thereof. The invention also provides on demand relief of symptoms associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and provides relief from symptoms caused by the consumption of excessive amounts of food and/or alcohol by administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one of the pyridine derivatives of the invention to a patient in need thereof. The invention also provides methods for treating parasitic infections, such as malaria, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one of the pyridine derivatives of the invention to a patient in need thereof. In preferred embodiments, the pyridine derivative of the invention is rabeprazole, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a stereoisomer thereof. | 09-25-2008 |
