The present invention relates to inhibitors of the transcription factor STAT-1, their use as therapeutic means as well as their use for the prevention or therapy of cardio-vascular complications like restenosis after percutaneous angioplasty or stenosis of venous bypasses, the graft versus host reaction, the ischemia/refusion-related damage in the context of surgical interventions and organ transplantation respectively, immunological hypersensitivity reactions, in particular the allergic rhinitis, the drug and food allergies, in particular urticaria and celiac disease (sprue), contact eczema and the immune complex diseases, in particular alveolitis, arthritis, glomerulonephritis and allergic vasculitis, inflammatory chondro- and osteopathies, in particular arthrosis, gout, ostitis and osteomyelitis, polyneuritis as well as acute and subacute respectively, infection contingent and in particular post-infectious inflammatory diseases, in particular bronchitis, endocarditis, hepatitis, myocarditis, nephritis, pericarditis, peritonitis and pancreatitis, including the septic shock.