Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the echinocandin family or a semi-synthetic derivative thereof or a salt thereof or an ester thereof, or an ester salt thereof, intended to be used as a cytoprotective drug, particularly as a drug for the prevention and/or protection and/or treatment of cell death and/or of degenerative pathological situations or processes which result in cell death, and even more particularly as a drug for the prevention and/or protection and/or treatment of cell death and/or degenerative pathological situations or processes which result in cell death, when they are associated with ischaemia-reperfusion.