The present invention provides tricyclic carboxamide compounds and methods and pharmaceutical compositions for their use in treatment, prevention, or suppression of disorders which may be remedied or alleviated by oxytocin antagonist activity, including prevention and/or suppression of preterm labor, suppression of labor at term prior to caesarean deliver, and for the treatment of dysmenorrhea. These compounds are also useful in enhancing fertility rates, enhancing survival rates and synchronizing estrus in farm animals; and may be useful in the prevention and treatment of disfunctions of the oxytocin system in the central nervous system including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and neuropsychiatric disorders.
本发明提供了
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酰胺类化合物以及它们的使用方法和制药组合物,用于治疗、预防或抑制可能通过
催产素拮抗活性得到缓解或减轻的疾病,包括预防和/或抑制早产、剖腹产前晚期抑制分娩,以及治疗痛经。这些化合物还可用于提高农业动物的生育率、生存率和同步发情,可能有助于预防和治疗中枢神经系统中
催产素系统的功能障碍,包括强迫症(OCD)和神经精神障碍。