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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd., Hyogo-ken, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424-173 ; 424-185 ; 424-189 ; 514 23 ; 514 62 ; 436 14 ; 436 95 ;
Abstract
A diagnostic agent for glycometabolic function comprising a glucose derivative of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and each represents hydrogen or acyl having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, with the proviso that at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is acyl and R.sup.5 represents X or --NHCOR.sup.6 X wherein X is a radioisotope of halogen and R.sup.6 is arylene or alkylene having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.