Cefsumide is an antibiotic of the cephalosporin group patented by Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co. Cefsumide binds to and inactivates penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) located on the inner membrane of the bacterial cell wall. PBPs are enzymes involved in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division. Inactivation of PBPs interferes with the cross-linkage of peptidoglycan chains necessary for bacterial cell wall strength and rigidity. This results in the weakening of the bacterial cell wall and causes cell lysis.

Tizoprolic acid is an anti-lipolytic drug, a blood ketone lowering agent.

Rosaprostol is an antiulcer drug. This compound acts on the mucosal barrier in the stomach, preventing a drop in pH. More specifically, rosaprostol exhibits gastric antisecretory activity and cytoprotective action. Importantly, it does not have the undesired side effects (such as diarrhea and uterine stimulation) of other prostanoids. Rosaprostol was found to antagonize gastric acid output induced by NSAID administration and to prevent and treat the digestive disorders that resulted from taking NSAIDs. Furthermore, symptoms in patients with gastritis disappeared after administration of rosaprostol, and the drug was well-tolerated. Positive effects of rosaprostol were also reported in patients with duodenal ulcer. Several stereoisomers of rosaprostol have been synthesized.

Nixylic acid, an anilinonicotinic acid derivative, is an anti-inflammatory agent.

Cyheptropine is a tropine ester of dibenzo[a,d]cycloheptadiene-5-carboxylic acid, developed as an antiarrhythmic agent.

Xanoxic acid was developed as a bronchodilator that has never been marketed. Information about the current use of this agent is not available.

Mespirenone (ZK 94679, 15β,16β-methylene-spironolactone) is a steroid aldosterone antagonist. In addition, it is a quite specific inhibitor of adrenocortical mineralocorticoid synthesis. In rodents mespirenone effectively prevents aldosterone-induced hypertension. It exerts natriuretic efficacy. Although it reached phase II clinical trials, it was discontinued in 1989.

Cis-isomer of loxanast (IG-10) or 1-methyl-4-isohexylcyclohexane carboxylic acid has been reported as an inhibitor of delayed hypersensitivity reaction in animal models. It inhibited macrophage chemotaxis.

Eprodisate (1,3-propanedisulfonate) is a negatively charged, sulfonated molecule of low molecular weight that has structural similarities to heparin sulfate; it is a glycosaminoglycan mimetic that binds to the glycosaminoglycan (GAG) binding site on serum A amyloid (AA) to prevent its interaction with glycosaminoglycan and arrest amyloidosis, or inhibit amyloid deposition. In nonclinical toxicity studies in two animal species (i.e., rat and dog), eprodisate was administered orally at doses of up to 2000 mg/kg/day for 39 weeks: eprodisate showed low toxicity potential at doses several fold higher than the anticipated clinical dose, was well tolerated upon chronic exposure and was found to be nonmutagenic and nonclastogenic. Furthermore, a series of safety pharmacology studies showed that eprodisate does not have any clinically significant effect on major organ function.

Minocromil was studied as a histamine receptor antagonist for the treatment of asthma. However, further development of the drug was discontinued.