Sitofibrate is a clofibrate derivative. Sitofibrate is aperoxisome proliferator activated receptor-α (PPAR-α) agonist. It is an antihyperlipidemic agent.

ITANOXONE is a hypolipidemic and hypouricemic compound with moderate anti-inflammatory activity.

Clodoxopone (LR 19731) is a hypoglycemic agent, developed in the 1980s by Italian company Lusofarmaco. In animal models, the drug lowered the plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels in several experimental conditions after single or repeated treatments. Results of the clinical trials of the drug are not reported.

Farglitazar is a non-thiazolidinedione insulin sensitizer and agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma. GlaxoSmithKline was developing farglitazar for the treatment of liver fibrosis and Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Cinoxolone is a derivative of glycyrrhetinic acid. Is is claimed to possess antiulcer properties.

Terbuficin was studied as a hypolipidemic agent. However, information about the current development and use of this drug is not available.

Ciglitazone, 5-[4-(1-methylcyclohexylmethoxy) benzyl]-thiazolidine-2,4-dione, is a hypoglycemic agent and a thiazolidenedione derivative. Ciglitazone binds to the PPAR gamma receptor and possesses agonist activity. This drug was in clinical trials in Japan for the treatment Diabetes mellitus, but that study has been discontinued. Ciglitazone was able to decrease the production of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in an in vitro human granulosa cell model. That result together with the pivotal role of VEGF in ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome suggests that ciglitazone may have a high potential as a therapeutic agent.

Impromidine is a highly potent and specific histamine H2 receptor agonist used diagnostically as a gastric secretion indicator. The value of impromidine as an effective acid-secretory stimulant is limited by its tendency to cause cardiovascular side-effects, that mediated by H2-receptors in the cardiovascular system.

Darapladib (SB-435495), as reversible inhibitors of lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) (Lp-PLA(2) has been developed and studies for the potential treatment of atherosclerosis. In November 2013, GSK announced that the drug had failed to meet Phase III endpoints in a trial of 16,000 patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Nafcaproic acid (DA-808) is a synthetic choleretic agent.