Compounds 5-hydroxytryptophan glutamate and its derivatives

• US 4,029,807 A
• Filed: 04/08/1975
• Issued: 06/14/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Laboratories Made SA
• Original Assignee: Laboratories Made SA
• Inventors: Castellano Berlanga, Jose Maria, Martinez Roldan, Cristobal, Fernandez Brana, Miguel
• Primary Examiner(s): Love, Ethel G.
• Application Number:
  US05/566,085
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: 260/326.14 T, 424/274
• US Class Current: 514/419
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 209/20 substituted additionally by nitrogen atoms, e.g. tryptophane

Abstract

The invention relates to the compound 5-Hydroxytryptophan Glutamate, having anti-depressive action.

Claims

1. A compound consisting of 5-hydroxytryptophan glutamate having the general formula ##STR2##

2. A pharmaceutical composition exhibiting anti-depressive properties which comprises an anti-depressive amount of a compound as claimed in claim 1 and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor.

3. A process for alleviating depression in an animal, comprising:

administering to the animal an anti-depressant amount of a compound as defined in claim 1.