US 7,531,655 B2
Large conductance calcium-activated K channel opener
Toshihiro Hosaka, Tokyo (Japan); Mari Kusama, Saitama (Japan); Kiyomi Ohba, Osaka (Japan); Rikako Kono, Saitama (Japan); and Shuntarou Kohnomi, Toda (Japan)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Osaka-Shi (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/531,330
PCT Filed Oct. 15, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/13194
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 14, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/035570, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 29, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-300860 (JP), filed on Oct. 15, 2002; and application No. 2003-104260 (JP), filed on Apr. 08, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0135597 A1, Jun. 22, 2006
Int. Cl. C07D 409/14 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 544—333  [546/280.4] 9 Claims
 
1. A method for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, chronic heart failure, angina, cardiac infarction, cerebral infarction, pollakiuria, urinary incontinence, or, cerebral ischemia, which comprises administering an effective amount of a 5-membered heterocyclic compound of the formula (I):

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
wherein ring A is a ring represented by one of the formulae:

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted thiophene;
R2 is an alkyl substituted by carboxy; and
R3 is a substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl, a substituted or unsubstituted pyrimidinyl;
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient.