申请人:Merck & Co., Inc.
公开号:US05494919A1
公开(公告)日:1996-02-27
The present invention is directed to certain piperidine, pyrrolidine, and hexahydro-1H-azepine compounds of the general structural formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, A, W, X, Y, and n axe as defined herein. These compounds promote the release of growth hormone in humans and animals. This property can be utilized to promote the growth of food animals to render the production of edible meat products more efficient, and in humans, to treat physiological or medical conditions characterized by a deficiency in growth hormone secretion, such as short stature in growth hormone deficient children, and to treat medical conditions which s are improved by the anabolic effects of growth hormone. Growth hormone releasing compositions containing such compounds as the active ingredient thereof are also disclosed.
本发明涉及某些哌啶、吡咯啉和六氢-1H-氮杂环烃化合物,其一般结构式如下:其中R.sub.1、R.sub.3、R.sub.4、R.sub.5、A、W、X、Y和n如本文所定义。这些化合物促进人类和动物体内生长激素的释放。这种特性可用于促进食用动物的生长,使可食肉制品的生产更加高效,在人类中,可用于治疗生长激素分泌不足所导致的生理或医学状况,如生长激素缺乏儿童的矮小身材,并治疗通过生长激素的合成效应改善的医学状况。还公开了含有这些化合物作为活性成分的促生长激素释放组合物。