COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY AND OTHER USES
申请人:Heemskerk Jill
公开号:US20090312323A1
公开(公告)日:2009-12-17
Compounds of Formula (I) or (II) useful for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy or other uses, as well as methods of using such compounds to increase SMN expression, increase EAAT2 expression, or increase the expression of a nucleic acid that encodes a translational stop codon introduced by mutation or frameshift.
Novel process for preparing isoindolin derivatives
申请人:HISAMITSU PHARMACEUTICAL CO., INC.
公开号:EP0047674A1
公开(公告)日:1982-03-17
A process for the preparation of an isoindolin derivative comprising cyclizing a benzylidene derivative in the presence of a reducing agent such as sodium boron hydride. In one embodiment, the benzylidene derivative may be substituted by a reaction mixture containing the same, the reaction mixture being prepared by reacting o-phthalaldehydic acid or its ester with an aniline derivative.
A process for the preparation of α-methylarene-acetic acids includes treating suitable ketals in an aqueous acidic medium to cause rearrangement of the ketal to an ester of the corresponding α-methylareneacetic acid, and hydrolyzing the thus-formed ester to yield the α-methylareneacetic acid.
SMA therapy and cell based assay for identifying therapies
申请人:——
公开号:US20040044063A1
公开(公告)日:2004-03-04
This invention relates to therapies for diseases involving splicing defects, such as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and methods to identify compounds for treating this disease. The invention specifically provides for therapies comprised of small molecule compounds identified by cell-based high-throughput screening assays. These assays utilize engineered splicing constructs that fuse pre-mRNA fragments to a reporter gene. The fragments contain exons and at least one intron of a gene mutated in such a way to cause disease. Additionally, the invention provides for methods to monitor the effects of drugs on splicing and gene expression in vivo, in transgenic animals.