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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1990
Yasuo Oshiro, Tokushima, JP;
Tatsuyoshi Tanaka, Tokushima, JP;
Yoji Sakurai, Tokushima, JP;
Seiji Sato, Tokushima, JP;
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Novel hydrofluorene derivatives and salts thereof represented by the formula (1) which possess excellent activities for improving anoxemic and hypoxic symptoms and syndromes accompanied therewith, therefore said derivatives are useful as cerebral activators, preventive agents for arrhythmia and heart failure caused by the shortage of oxygen and others. Furthermore, said hydrofluorene derivatives and salts thereof possess actions for scavenging active oxygen radicals, therefore, the derivatives are useful prophylactic and treating agents for various disturbances and diseases caused by the excessive formation of active oxygen radicals. In addition to the above, the hydrofluorene derivatives are useful as anti-oxidative agents for fats and oils. Yet, further, the hydrofluorene derivatives and salts thereof accelerate the uptaking of high-affinity choline in the central nerve system and/or the releasing of acetylcholine therefrom, therefore, the hydrofluorene derivatives and salts thereof are useful cholinergic nerve system activating agents.