Patent ID: 7414131

Claim:
A method for ameliorating or delaying the onset of a disease or condition in a mammal, which comprises administering to the mammal an effective disease- or condition-ameliorating, or onset-delaying amount of a pharmaceutical composition, wherein said pharmaceutical composition comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound, said compound having a formula: wherein A, B and Y are CR 2′ R 2′ ; W is N; and Z is CR 4 ; R 1 is selected from phenyl, unsubstituted or substituted with alkyl, substituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted sulfone, substituted or unsubstituted aminosulfonyl, cyano, and halo; or R 1 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl, substituted or unsubstituted indolyl, substituted or unsubstituted benzimidazolyl, substituted or unsubstituted indazolyl, substituted or unsubstituted tetrahydroquinoline, and substituted or unsubstituted tetrahydroisoquinoline; R 2 is H; and each R 2′ is independently selected from hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl; R 3 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted phenyl; or R 3 is 2-pyridyl substituted with alkoxy, sulfonyl, or sulfonamidyl; R 4 is selected from H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, acyl, substituted acyl, substituted or unsubstituted acylamino, substituted or unsubstituted alkylamino, substituted or unsubstituted alkythio, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, substituted alkoxycarbonyl, substituted or unsubstituted benzylamino, benzyloxy, substituted benzyloxy, amino, benzyl, substituted or unsubstituted sulfoxide, substituted or unsubstituted sulfone, substituted or unsubstituted sulfanyl, substituted or unsubstituted aminosulfonyl, substituted or unsubstituted dihydroxyphosphoryl, substituted or unsubstituted aminodihydroxyphosphoryl, azido, carboxy, substituted or unsubstituted carbamoyl, cyano, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted cycloheteroalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted dialkylamino, halo, hydroxy, nitro, and thiol; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or stereoisomers or tautomers thereof; wherein the disease or condition is selected from inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain, osteoarthritis, overactive bladder, migraine and dental pain.