Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Hosono

Akira Shiozawa

Takashi Terada

Kazuhisa Narita

Tochiro Tatee

Yukihiro Sagawa

Takashi Takahira

Masashi Iida

Yasuhiko Furuta

Giichi Izumi

Atsuro Inubushi

Junpei Itoh

Osamu Ishizuka

Akira Fujita

Michiko Sakai

The present invention relates to novel pharmaceutical use of forskolin derivatives represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and Ac are as defined later ##STR2## (wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen or lower alkyl group, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may be combined to represent lower alkylene group which may have oxygen or nitrogen atom in the linking chain, and n is an integer of 1 to 5); R.sup.2 represents hydrocarbon group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms; and Ac represents acetyl group. The above-mentioned forskolin derivative or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof can be used as a platelet aggregation inhibiting or controlling agent, spasmolytic agent, therapeutic agent for skin ulcer, peripheral circulation improving agent for limbs and differentiation inducing and promoting agent.

Pharmaceutical use of forskolin derivatives

A chroman derivative represented by the following general formula [1]: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents cyano group, nitro group, halogenomethyl group or --SO.sub.2 --X group (X represents lower alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms or aryl group); R.sub.2 represents hydrogen atom or OA group (A represents hydrogen atom, nitro group, lower acyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, arylcarbonyl group, lower alkylsulfonyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, arylsulfonyl group, arylalkyl group, tetrahydropyranyl group, lower alkoxycarbonyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, arylalkoxycarbonyl group or silyl derivative group); R.sub.3 singly represents a hydrogen atom; or R.sub.3 forms a bond jointly with R.sub.2 ; and R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 each represent hydrogen atom, vinyl group, formyl group, --Y--(OA).sub.n group (Y represents straight or branched chain alkylene group having 1-6 carbon atoms or lower alkenyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, A is as defined above, and n represents an integer of 1-3. The compound of this invention is expected to be effectively usable as an agent for treatment of various symptoms due to the contraction of smooth muscles, for treatment of the diseases of the circulatory system and for treatment of epilepsy.

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