Patent ID: 7638554

Claim:
A method of stimulating the endogenous production of a metalloproteinase inhibitor, comprising administering a compound having the structural formula (III) wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, halo, sulfhydryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, and aralkyloxy, and further wherein either R 1 and R 2 or R 2 and R 3 can be linked to form a cyclic group; R 6 , R 7 , R 8 and R 9 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, and aralkyloxy, providing that R 6 and R 7 , R 7 and R 8 , or R 8 and R 9 , may be linked together to form a cyclic structure selected from five-membered rings, six-membered rings, and fused five-membered and/or six-membered rings, wherein the cyclic structure is aromatic, alicyclic, heteroaromatic, or heteroalicyclic, and has zero to 4 non-hydrogen substituents and zero to 3 heteroatoms; and R 10 and R 11 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkoxy, and halo, wherein the administering stimulates the endogenous production of a metalloproteinase inhibitor.