| abstract |
This invention provides a method of treating functional gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders in a mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of a hydroxycycloalkane phenethylamine of the following structural formula: n n n n n n n n n n in which A is a moiety of the formula n n n n n n n n n n wheren the dotted line represents optional unsaturation; R 1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R 2 is alkyl; R 4 is hydrogen, alkyl, formyl, or alkanol; R 5 and R 6 are, independently, hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkoxy, alkanoyloxy, cyano, nitro, alkylmercapto, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanamido, halo, trifluoromethyl, or taken together, methylene dioxy; R 7 is hydrogen or alkyl; and n is 0, 1, 2, 3 , or 4; n nor a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |