Noscapine derivatives as adjuvant compositions and methods of use thereof

1. A method of enhancing a mammal's protective immune response to a vaccine antigen, comprising the steps of administering to said mammal an immunogenic amount of the vaccine antigen and a immunogenicity-augmenting amount of noscapine in concurrent or sequential combination with said vaccine antigen, wherein the vaccine antigen is selected from the group consisting of small pox, yellow fever, distemper, chlorea, fowl pox, antivenom, scarlet fever, diptheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, whooping cough, influenza, rabies, mumps, measles and poliomyelitis.

2. A method of augmenting cell mediated protective immunity in a host to bacteria, or viruses that infect host cells that lack co-stimulatory molecules, the method comprising administering to the host

(1) a noscapine compound of the following formula:

 wherein:

A is

(i)

 and W is C 1-6 alkyl; or

(ii)

 and forms a six membered ring with B, said ring containing one nitrogen;

Y is

(a) C 1-6 alkyl, or H;

(b) C(O)—C 1-6 alkyl;

(c)

 wherein Z is C 1-6 alkyl or O—C 1-6 alkyl;

(d) aryl; or

(e) a heterocycle selected from the group consisting of piperidinyl, piperazinyl, 2-oxopiperazinyl, 2-oxopiperidinyl, 2-oxopyrrolodinyl, 2-oxoazepinyl, azepinyl, pyrrolyl, 4-piperidonyl, pyrrolidinyl, pyrazolyl, pyrazolidinyl, imidazolyl, imidazolinyl, imidazolidinyl, pyridyl, pyrazinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyridazinyl, oxazolyl, oxazolidinyl, isoxazolyl, isoxazolidinyl, morpholinyl, thiazolyl, thiazolidinyl, isothiazolyl, quinuclidinyl, isothiazolidinyl, indolyl, quinolinyl, isoquinolinyl, benzimidazolyl, thiadiazoyl, benzopyranyl, benzothiazolyl, benzoxazolyl, furyl, tetrahydrofuryl, tetrahydropyranyl, thienyl, benzothienyl, thiamorpholinyl, thiamorpholinyl sulfoxide, thiamorpholinyl sulfone, and oxadiazolyl;

B is a single bond, OH or halo;

C is —OH, or —CH 2 —and

D is: —OH, —CH 2 -halo, —CH(O)—, —COOH, —C(O)—O—C 1-6 alkyl, —(CH 2 ) n —, —CHOH—, wherein n is an integer and is 1, 2, or 3;

or wherein C and D form a 5-membered lactone or lactam ring;

E is —H or —CH 3 ; and

F is —OH or —OCH 3 , or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and

(2) an attenuated or live vaccine,

wherein compound (1) is administered in an effective amount to augment cell mediated immunity in a host to the vaccine (2).