Patent · US Expired

Steroid compounds, use of these compounds for the preparation of meiosis-regulating medicaments and method for the preparation of these compounds

US6916921B2 · kind B2 · utility

0Cited by

3References

36Claims

0Family size

Assignees

SCHERING CORPORATION · US
Novo Nordisk D/S · DK

Inventors

Thorsten Blume · Schildow, DE
Peter Esperling · Berlin, DE
Christa Hegele-Hartung · Neheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 26, 2002
Grant date	Jul 12, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 24, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC07J43/003
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to steroid compounds of general formula X, which may advantageously be employed to stimulate meiosis in human oocytes, the steroid being specifically characterized by amino nitrogen bonded to C17 of the steroid skeleton via a spacer A.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.