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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2018
Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Tsuji, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Masumi Ueno, Koto-ku, JP;
Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a medicine that can simply treat and/or prevent a retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration, including retinitis pigmentosa. The solution is to provide an agent for treating and/or preventing a retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration, containing a compound having a retinoic acid receptor agonistic activity (for example, tamibarotene, tamibarotene methyl ester, tamibarotene ethyl ester, tazarotene, tazarotenic acid, adapalene, palovarotene, retinol, isotretinoin, alitretinoin, etretinate, acitretin or bexarotene) or a salt thereof.