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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2011
Applicant:
Kusuki Nishioka, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kusuki Nishioka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
AXIS Inc., Kagoshima, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61P 23/00 (2006.01); A61K 38/00 (2006.01); C07K 14/52 (2006.01); C07K 14/715 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a drug effective in the treatment of fibromyalgia. Basically, the disclosed therapeutic agent was created on the basis of experiments showing improvement in symptoms when etanercept was administered to patients suffering from fibromyalgia. Etanercept is known as a therapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis, and the JFIQ score of patients not suffering from fibromyalgia improved considerably in the preferred embodiment. In other words, a therapeutic agent for fibromyalgia is disclosed that contains etanercept as an active ingredient in an effective amount.