| abstract |
A compound of the formula (I): U-V-W-X-Y-Z (I) wherein U is lower alkyl; V is -CONH- or -NR1CO- wherein R1 is a hydrogen or lower alkyl; W is a bond or lower alkylene; X is a bivalent residue derived from optionally substituted thiazole; Y is a bond or lower alkylene; and Z is a group of the formula: (a) wherein R2 is a group of the formula: -A-B-D-E-F-G wherein A is a bond or lower alkylene; B is a bond, (b); D is a bond, -CS- or -CO-; E is a bond or -NH-; F is a bond, -CO-, -O- or -SO2-; and G is lower alkyl, optionally protected amino, -OH, phenyl, (c); and R3 is lower alkyl, provided that when Z is a group of the formula: (d), then G should not be amino, when Z is a group of the formula: (e), then G should not be (f), when Z is a group of the formula: (g) and G is optionally protected amino, then D should be -CS-, or then A should be lower alkylene, B or E should be -NH- and F should be -CO-; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof useful as a vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) inhibitor as well as a pharmaceutical composition and a method for preventing or treating a VAP-1 associated disease, especially macular edema, which method includes administering an effective amount of the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a subject, and the like. |