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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2006
Yoshihiro Urade, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshiki Tanaka, Hanno, JP;
Keiko Yamane, Hanno, JP;
Michinori Togawa, Hanno, JP;
Yoshihiro Urade, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshiki Tanaka, Hanno, JP;
Keiko Yamane, Hanno, JP;
Michinori Togawa, Hanno, JP;
Taiho Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a benzimidazole compound represented by Formula (I) wherein Xis oxygen or carbonyl, and Ris a furan ring having 1 to 3 substituents or a pyrrole ring that may have 1 to 3 substituents; excluding compounds represented by Formula (I) wherein at least one of the substituents is a phosphoric acid group or a phosphoric ester group; or a salt thereof. The benzimidazole compound or salt thereof has excellent prostaglandin synthase inhibitory activity, and is useful as an agent for preventing and/or treating diseases in which prostaglandin D2 or metabolites thereof participates, such as allergic and inflammatory diseases, and as inhibitor for the exacerbation of Alzheimer's disease or cerebral damage.