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Highly safe cytokine production inhibitors, agents for protecting and promoting liver function, anti-inflammatory agents and immunosuppressants. Brazilian licorice extract and periandrins, which are constituents thereof, have excellent characteristics of showing effects of inhibiting cytokine production and protecting and promoting liver function, an anti-inflammatory effect and an immunosuppressive effect without any harmful side effects. Thus use of Brazilian licorice extract or periandrins as cytokine production inhibitors makes it possible to inhibit inflammations in various diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. These substances are also usable as agents for protecting and promoting liver function, anti-inflammatory agents and immunosuppressants. Moreover, foods, cosmetics, sweeteners and food materials containing Brazilian licorice extract exert the effects as described above.
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An object of the present invention is to provide a drug which is effective for prophylaxis or therapy of peripheral nerve disorder occurred as a side effect of the administration of anti-cancer agents.The present invention is to provide a drug containing an ester of C10 fatty acid as an active ingredient for prophylaxis or therapy of peripheral nerve disorder induced by administration of a drug containing at least one of anti-cancer agents. The drug of the present invention containing the compound as an active ingredient is highly useful as a drug for prophylaxis or therapy of peripheral nerve disorder induced by administration of anti-cancer agents.
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An antibiotic SF2487 substance having the formula (I) or a salt thereof possesses an antimalarial activity against the proliferation of malarial parasites and is therefore useful as an antimalarial drug.
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An inhibitor of the rennin-angiotensin system is useful for the treatment or prevetion of the lipodystrophy syndrome, e.g. in AIDS patients also receiving anti-retroviral therapy.
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An anti-skin tumor promotor comprising a compound of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R means a hydrogen atom or a hydroxyl group. The promotor may be an extract of the crude drug Scutellaria or a synthetic compound.
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An object of the present invention is to provide a novel trans-2-decenoic acid derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and to provide a pharmaceutical agent which contains said compound as an active ingredient and has a highly safe neurotrophic factor-like activity or an alleviating action for side effect induced by administration of anti-cancer agents. The trans-2-decenoic acid derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which is the compound of the present invention is specifically represented by the formula (1): (In the formula, Y is —O—, —NR— or —S—, R is hydrogen atom, alkyl group, dialkylaminoalkyl group or the like and W is a substituent such as dialkylaminoalkyl group) and has a quite high usefulness as a pharmaceutical agent such as a preventive or therapeutic agent for dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, etc., a treating or repairing agent for spinal cord injury.
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The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent having high safety and a neurotrophic factor-like activity, which contains, as an active ingredient, any one compound included in fatty acids each having 8 carbon atoms (C8) or having 10 carbon atoms (C10) to 12 carbon atoms (C12) or fatty acid esters thereof, such as 3,7-dimethyloctanoic acid ethyl ester, geranic acid ethyl ester, and the like, each of which has 8 carbon atoms (C8), decanoic acid methyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid, trans-2-decenoic acid methyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid ethyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid-2-decenyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid cyclohexyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid isopropyl ester, trans-3-decenoic acid methyl ester, trans-9-decenoic acid methyl ester, and the like, each of which has 10 carbon atoms (C10), trans-10-undecenoic acid methyl ester, trans-10-undecenoic acid ethyl ester, and the like, each of which has 11 carbon atoms (C11), and dodecanoic acid, and the like, each of which has 12 carbon atoms (C12), or salts thereof or prodrugs thereof.
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An anti-MRSA compound comprising of the formula ##STR1## which is generally extracted from the root of Sophora exigua. The usage of this compound is for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
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A lifestyle disease improving drug is disclosed that enhances PPARα, δ and γ agonist activities that includes a compound having the lactone structure in accordance with the chemical formula 6-alkyl-5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-2-one, the alkyl containing 4, 5, or 6 carbons. Methods for enhancing PPARα, γ and δ agonist activities in vertebrates or medically treating a vertebrate are disclosed. The methods include providing a composition of an active ingredient, the lifestyle disease improving drug, in a biologically acceptable medium and administering an effective amount of the composition to a vertebrate.
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A lifestyle disease improving drug that enhances PPARα, δ and γ agonist activities that includes a compound having the lactone structure in accordance with the chemical formula 6-alkyl-5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-2-one, the alkyl containing 4, 5, or 6 carbons, and a method for synthesizing the compound. The method includes adding, stepwise, a butyllithium-hexane solution to a diisopropylamine-tetrahydrofuran solution, and then a 6-alkyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-one-tetrahydrofuran solution, wherein the alkyl contains 4, 5, or 6 carbons, adding a phenylselenyl choloride-tetrahydrofuran solution to produce a reaction mixture with a phenylselenide, extracting and purifying the phenylselenide, preparing a phenylselenide-tetrahydrofuran solution with the purified phenylselenide, and adding sodium bicarbonate and an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution to the phenylselenide-tetrahydrofuran solution to produce a reaction mixture including the compound.