Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

Toshiya Kanaji

Takayuki Maruyama

Masaya Takahashi

Masahiro Takigawa

Kazuhiro Fuchibe

Naohiro Seo

Kenji Kabashima

An agent for treating heart failure, which improves left ventricular diastolic function itself without depending on the diuretic effect or vasodilation effect; controls the pathological condition of diastolic functional failure; and prevents the recurrence, and can prevent dyspnea and death from the pathological condition, is provided. By directly acting on a heart, 4-[(2-{(2R)-2-[(1E,3S)-4-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-hydroxy-1-buten-1-yl]-5-oxo-1-pyrrolidinyl}ethyl)thio]butanoic acid improves left ventricular diastolic function, and can effectively treat diastolic functional failure among heart failure types. Accordingly, by present invention, a new agent for treating heart failure that can relieve diastolic functional failure, for which no effective therapeutic method has been established, can be provided.

Left ventricular diastolic function improving agent

Disclosed is a substance which has a low molecular weight, can be applied in a simpler manner, and has an immunopotentiating activity against cancer and/or a microorganism-mediated infectious disease. An EP4 agonist exhibits an immunopotentiating activity through the activation of a cytotoxic T cell, and is therefore useful for the prevention and/or treatment of cancer or a microorganism-mediated infection disease.

Cytotoxic T cell activator comprising EP4 agonist

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Osaka, Japan

Toshiya Kanaji