NOVEL DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV INHIBITORS USED FOR FUNCTIONALLY INFLUENCING DIFFERENT CELLS AND TREATING IMMUNOLOGICAL, INFLAMMATORY, NEURONAL, AND OTHER DISEASES

摘要

The invention relates to medicinally used substances which specificallyinhibit peptidases splitting Gly-Pro-p-nitroanilide. The invention furtherrelates to the use of at least one such substance or at least onepharmaceutical or cosmetic composition containing at least one such substancefor preventing and treating diseases, particularly diseases with anovershooting immune response (autoimmune diseases, allergies, and transplantrejections), other chronic inflammatory diseases, neuronal diseases, braindamages, skin diseases (acne and psoriasis, among others), tumor diseases, andspecial viral infections (including SARS).