Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Masateru Miyake

Kazutaka Higaki

Toshikiro Kimura

Takanori Minami

Makoto Inada

Keigo Yamada

Nobuhiro Ikei

Atsunari Noda

Hideji Nonomura

Shinsuke Nakagawa

The present invention provides a medicinal composition comprising (1) a pharmacologically active substance, (2) a drug absorbefacient and (3) a taurine compound or a polyamine. A taurine compound has an effect of suppressing or preventing damage of the intestinal mucous membrane, and therefore adding the taurine compound to a medicinal composition containing a pharmacologically active substance and a drug absorbefacient makes it possible to suppress or prevent damage of the intestinal mucosa. A polyamine improves the absorbability of pharmacologically active substances, and therefore adding the polyamine to a medicinal composition containing a pharmacologically active substance and a drug absorbefacient makes it possible to decrease the dose of the drug absorbefacient, thereby suppressing or preventing damage of the intestinal mucosa.

Medicinal composition

Preparations whereby reduction or acceleration of the gastric emptying rate can be noninvasively evaluated: and a method of evaluating the gastric emptying rate by using these preparations. Thus, reduction or acceleration of the gastric emptying rate can be safely and conveniently examined. Namely, theses preparations are useful in objectively diagnosing the gastric motor function, as well as in evaluating and judging the drug effect or therapeutic effect of a drug concerning the gastric motor function on individual patients.

Preparations for evaluating eliminative ability of stomach

The present invention provides a medicinal composition comprising (1) a pharmacologically active substance, (2) a drug absorbefacient and (3) a taurine compound or a polyamine. A taurine compound has an efect of suppressing or preventing damage of the intestinal mucous membrane, and therefore adding the taurine compound to a medicinal composition containing a pharmacologically active substance and a drug absorbefacient makes it possible to suppress or prevent damage of the intestinal mucosa. A polyamine improves the absorbability of pharmacologically active substances, and therefore adding the polyamine to a medicinal composition containing a pharmacologically active substance and a drug absorbefacient makes it possible to decrease the dose of the drug absorbefacient, thereby suppressing or preventing damage of the intestinal mucosa.

Medicinal compositions

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Itano-gun, Japan

Masateru Miyake