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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/444 (2006.01); A61K 31/4439 (2006.01); A61P 27/02 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/4439 (2013.01); A61K 9/0048 (2013.01); A61P 27/02 (2018.01);
Abstract
The present invention aims to find a novel pharmaceutical use of omidenepag, esters thereof, or salts thereof. The present inventors have made intensive studies to find a novel pharmaceutical use of omidenepag, an ester thereof, or a salt thereof, and have found as a result that omidenepag, an ester thereof, or a salt thereof significantly dilates retinal blood vessels, and significantly increases blood flow. Therefore, omidenepag, an ester thereof, or a salt thereof is expected to protect retinal nerve cells and be useful for prevention and/or treatment of ophthalmic diseases involving retinal nerve cell disorder.