Tanabe Seiyaku Company, Limited

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation

Jun Kotera

Kenji Omori

Hideo Michibata

Keizo Yuasa

Kotomi Oda

Hiroshi Morimoto

Harutami Yamada

Taketoshi Ishii

Takashi Sasaki

Takeo Kitazawa

The present invention relates to a therapeutic or prophylactic method for treating Parkinson's disease by administering an effective amount of a compound having a phosphodiesterase 10 inhibitory activity; and also relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treatment or prophylaxis of Parkinson's disease comprising as an active ingredient a compound having a phosphodiesterase 10 inhibitory activity. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for enhancing dopamine signal in the brain, which comprises administering an effective amount of a compound having a phosphodiesterase 10 inhibitory activity; and also relates to pharmaceutical composition for enhancing dopamine signal in brain comprising as an active ingredient a compound having a phosphodiesterase 10 inhibitory activity.

Treatment of Parkinson's disease and enhancement of dopamine signal using PDE 10 inhibitor

The present invention is to provide a novel phosphodiesterase and a gene thereof, specifically, Type 11 phosphodiesterase (PDE11) and a gene thereof, more specifically, a phosphodiesterase selected from (A) a protein having an amino acid sequenced shown by SEQ.ID.NO: 2, SEQ.ID.NO: 4, SEQ.ID.NO: 6 or SEQ.ID.NO: 39, and (B) a protein having an amino acid sequence shown by SEQ.ID.NO: 2, SEQ.ID.NO: 4, SEQ.ID.NO: 6 or SEQ.ID.NO: 39 in which one or several amino acids are deleted, substituted or added, and having an activity of hydrolyzing a cyclic nucleotide, and a gene thereof, and a method of characterizing, identifying and selecting a phosphodiesterase inhibitor by using the same.

Phosphodiesterase and gene thereof

Phosphodiesterase and genes thereof

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Hasuda, Japan

Jun Kotera