Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Tsuneo Asano

Giichi Goto

Osamu Nishimura

Akinobu Nagaoka

Tetsuji Imamoto

Masato Suenaga

Yoshihiro Sugiura

Hiroaki Ohmae

Norio Okutani

A method for removing from a peptide the diketone of the methionine residue, and a method for manufacturing a peptide or salt thereof which does not possess an N-terminal methionine residue, characterized by having a peptide or salt thereof which possesses a diketone of the optionally oxidized N-terminal methionine residue react with 3,4-diaminobenzoic acid or a salt thereof in the presence of acetic acid and sodium formate, formic acid and sodium formate, or formic acid and sodium acetate.

Process for eliminating N-terminal methionine

The present invention relates to prevention or treatment a brain edema, an intracranial hemorrhage and a cerebral infarction by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for inhibiting a vascular permeability enhancer, which the compound is of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is halogen, --X--R.sup.3 in which X is O, S, NH or NHNH, and R.sup.3 is H, acyl, a hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group, or --Y.dbd.R.sup.4 in which Y is N or NHN, and R.sup.4 is a divalent hydrocarbon group, and R.sup.1 is H, halogen, a hydrocarbon group, a heterocyclic group or --Z--R.sup.5 in which Z is O, S or NH, and R.sup.5 is H, a hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group;

Inhibitor of vascular permeability enhancer

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Tsuneo Asano