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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Nagasaki University, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki, JP;
Nobuhisa Iwata, Nagasaki, JP;
Keiro Shirotani, Nagasaki, JP;
Masashi Asai, Nagasaki, JP;
Takashi Tanaka, Nagasaki, JP;
NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY, Nagasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims to provide a pharmaceutical agent for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of Alzheimer's disease, which has a novel action mechanism and shows less side effects. A polyphenol derivative having liposolubility enhanced by the introduction of at least one kind of a liposoluble group selected from the group consisting of a chain saturated hydrocarbon group, a chain unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, a liposoluble vitamin residue and a sterol residue has an action to potentiate neprilysin activity, and is useful as a pharmaceutical agent for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of Alzheimer's disease.