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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Koga, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/144 ; A61K 3/140 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/144 ; A61K 3/140 ;
Abstract
An agent for treating or ameliorating diabetic complications which contains at least one potassium channel activator as an active ingredient. The drug is expected to show a therapeutic or ameliorating action on diabetic complications such as retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, peripheral circulation disorders, and skin ulcerations; it also proves effective in preventing, ameliorating, alleviating and gaining recovery from various symptoms and abnormalities caused by those diseases, as exemplified by blindness, proteinurea, pain, numbness, psychroesthesia, intermittent claudication and gangrene.