Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Designated organic active ingredient containing – Peptide containing doai
Patent
1996-04-25
1999-04-06
Tsang, Cecilia J.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Designated organic active ingredient containing
Peptide containing doai
514 14, 530324, 530399, A61K 3800
Patent
active
058918485
ABSTRACT:
Peptide fragments and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and therapeutic agents containing one or more of them as an effective component possess excellent therapeutic activity for improving cerebral function and protecting cerebral neurons and are useful as pharmaceutical agents. The peptide fragments of the present invention are amino acid residue peptide fragments of acid fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) of mammalian animals or humans which do not contain cysteine at the 16-position. The compounds include a 1-29 amino acid residue peptide fragment of acid fibroblast growth factor in which cysteine, an amino acid at the 16-position, is substituted with another amino acid, such as alanine, serine, or glutamic acid, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds also include a 1-15 amino acid residue fragment of acid fibroblast growth factor of mammalian animals or humans and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The protein fragments may have an N-terminal group which is in amide form or free form. In a passive avoidance learning test and in a maze-learning test in water, the peptides of the present invention exhibit an excellent action of improving the learning and the remembering ability of senility-accelerated mice in which remembering and learning abilities were reduced. The peptide fragments also exhibit a protective effect against the death of cerebral neurons caused by ischemia. As such, the compounds of the present invention show excellent improvement of brain functions and protection of cerebral neurons. The compounds are useful as a pharmaceutical agent for dementia and other diseases caused by reduction of various brain functions.
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Ajinomoto Co. Inc.
Delacroix-Muirheid C.
Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Tsang Cecilia J.
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