The invention provides a method of sustained delivery of a lactam, imide, amide, sulfonamide, carbamate or urea containing parent drug by administering to a patient an effective amount of a prodrug compound of the invention wherein upon administration to the patient, release of the parent drug from the prodrug is sustained release. Prodrug compounds suitable for use in the methods of the invention are labile conjugates of parent drugs that are derivatized through carbonyl linked prodrug moieties. The prodrug compounds of the invention can be used to treat any condition for which the lactam, imide, amide, sulfonamide, carbamate or urea containing parent drug is useful as a treatment.

The invention provides a method of sustained delivery of a lactam, imide, amide, sulfonamide, carbamate or urea containing parent drug by administering to a patient an effective amount of a prodrug compound of the invention wherein upon administration to the patient, release of the parent drug from the prodrug is sustained release. Prodrug compounds suitable for use in the methods of the invention are labile conjugates of parent drugs that are derivatized through carbonyl linked prodrug moieties. The prodrug compounds of the invention can be used to treat any condition for which the lactam, imide, amide, sulfonamide, carbamate or urea containing parent drug is useful as a treatment.

The present disclosure discloses compounds capable of modulating the activity of -amino--carboxymuconic acid semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD), which are useful for the prevention and/or the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with defects in NAD.sup.+ biosynthesis, e.g., metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, kidney diseases, and diseases associated with ageing. The present application also discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and the use of such compounds as a medicament.

The present disclosure discloses compounds capable of modulating the activity of -amino--carboxymuconic acid semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD), which are useful for the prevention and/or the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with defects in NAD.sup.+ biosynthesis, e.g., metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, kidney diseases, and diseases associated with ageing. The present application also discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and the use of such compounds as a medicament.

The present invention discloses unsaturated hydrocarbon pyrimidine thioether compounds of formula (I) and preparation method and application thereof, the compounds of formula (I) exhibit high insecticidal and acaricidal activity against adults, larvae and eggs of harmful mites and insects in the agriculture, civil use and animal technology fields, meanwhile, the compounds also exhibit good bactericidal activity, and can be widely applied as an insecticide, an acaricide and/or a bactericide in agriculture or other fields

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The present invention discloses unsaturated hydrocarbon pyrimidine thioether compounds of formula (I) and preparation method and application thereof, the compounds of formula (I) exhibit high insecticidal and acaricidal activity against adults, larvae and eggs of harmful mites and insects in the agriculture, civil use and animal technology fields, meanwhile, the compounds also exhibit good bactericidal activity, and can be widely applied as an insecticide, an acaricide and/or a bactericide in agriculture or other fields

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Cystic fibrosis is developed through mutation of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR), which is one type of chloride channel. An object of the present invention is to provide compounds effective in the treatment of cystic fibrosis that open a chloride channel different from CFTR, which is the cause of the disease, and do not depend on CFTR.

Compounds of the present invention are compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof that open calcium dependent chloride channels (CaCCs) via G-protein coupled receptor 39 (GPR39) agonism to have strong chloride ion-secretory action, and are represented by the following general formula (I):

General formula (I):

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wherein, X represents a carboxyl group or a tetrazolyl group; Q represents a C.sub.1-C.sub.3 alkylene group, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, etc.; G represents a phenyl group where the phenyl group may have 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl group, etc.; R.sup.1 represents a C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl group, etc.; R.sup.2 represents a C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl group that may have 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from the following group A, or a group selected from the following group B: Group A: a phenyl group and a pyridyl group, wherein the phenyl group and the pyridyl group may have 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from the following group D; Group B: OH, O-M, SH, S-M, NH.sub.2, NH-M, and N-M.sub.2, wherein M is a C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl group that may have 1 or 2 substituents independently selected from the following group C, or a C.sub.3-C.sub.6 cycloalkyl group that may have 1 or 2 substituents independently selected from the following group C; Group C: a halogen atom, a cyano group, a phenyl group, a pyridyl group, etc., wherein the phenyl group and the pyridyl group may have 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from the following group D; and Group D: a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl group, etc.

Provided is a novel compound or salt thereof that induces degradation by autophagy of an intracellular molecule. In this compound, a ligand having activity to bind to an intracellular molecule and a structure having activity to induce autophagy of an intracellular molecule are linked via a linker without loss of the activity of the ligand and the structure.

The present invention relates to substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds, compositions comprising said compounds, and the use of said compounds and compositions for epigenetic regulation by inhibition of bromodomain-mediated recognition of acetyl lysine regions of proteins, such as histones. Said compositions and methods are useful for the treatment of cancer and neoplastic disease.

The present invention relates to substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds, compositions comprising said compounds, and the use of said compounds and compositions for epigenetic regulation by inhibition of bromodomain-mediated recognition of acetyl lysine regions of proteins, such as histones. Said compositions and methods are useful for the treatment of cancer and neoplastic disease.