5-lipoxygenase inhibitors

This invention encompasses compounds and methods for inhibiting lipoxygenase and includes a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutical carrier and an effective lipoxygenase inhibiting amount of a compound of the formula: wherein the substituents are defined below. The compounds and pharm...

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Hauptverfasser: DESAI, BIPINCHANDRA N, CHINN, LELAND J, MUELLER, RICHARD A
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Zusammenfassung:This invention encompasses compounds and methods for inhibiting lipoxygenase and includes a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutical carrier and an effective lipoxygenase inhibiting amount of a compound of the formula: wherein the substituents are defined below. The compounds and pharmaceutical formulations of the present invention are 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors and, therefore, are useful in the treatment of local and systemic inflammation, allergy and hypersensitivity reactions and other disorders in which agents formed in the 5-lipoxygenase metabolic pathway are involved.