Patents Assigned to Taiho Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6365610
    Abstract: The invention provides a urokinase production inhibitor or angiogenesis inhibitor comprising as an active component an ozonide derivative represented by the formula (1), and method of prevention or therapy using the inhibitor wherein A is an oxygen atom or N—R (wherein R is phenyl or phenyl having as a substituent lower alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, lower alkoxyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a halogen atom); B is an oxo group or —R4; and (1) when A is an oxygen atom, R1 is a hydrogen atom, etc., R2 is phenyl, etc., R3 is a hydrogen atom, etc., B is an oxo group or —R4, R4 is a hydrogen atom, etc., R5 is a hydrogen atom, etc.; (2) when A is N—R, R1 is a hydrogen atom, etc., R2 is a hydrogen atom, etc., R3 is a hydrogen atom, etc., B is —R4, R4 is a hydrogen atom, etc., R5 is a hydrogen atom, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma Sasaki, Masatomo Nojima
  • Patent number: 5534513
    Abstract: The invention provides;an antitumor potentiator for potentiating the antitumor activity of an antitumor composition containing tegafur in a therapeutically effective amount and uracil in an amount effective for potentiation of antitumor effect, characterized by containing a folinic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount effective for potentiation of antitumor effect as an active ingredient;an antitumor composition characterized by containing tegafur in a therapeutically effective amount, uracil in an amount effective for potentiation of antitumor effect and folinic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount effective for potentiation of antitumor effect;a method of potentiating the antitumor effect of an antitumor composition characterized by administering the above antitumor potentiator to a patient; anda method for therapy of cancer in mammalian animals characterized by administering the above antitumor composition to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Uchida Junji, Okabe Hiroyuki, Takechi Teiji, Takeda Setsuo, Yamada Yuji
  • Patent number: 5250673
    Abstract: Novel 2'-deoxy-5-substituted uridine derivative represented by the general formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a benzoyl group or a tetrahydrofuranyl group; R.sub.2 is a fluorine atom or a trifluoromethyl group; and any one of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is a hydrogen atom and the other one is an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, a benzyl group having as the substituents selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and a nitro group, or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms having one or two phenyl groups as the substituents.The novel 2'-deoxy-5-substituteduridine derivative possesses excellent antitumor activity with less toxicity, thus it is useful as antitumor agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsuro Fujii, Jun-ichi Yamashita, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Setsuo Takeda, Tadafumi Terada, Mitsugi Yasumoto, Norio Unemi
  • Patent number: 5229402
    Abstract: The present invention provides a carbamoyl-2-pyrrolidinone compound which has the following formula (2) and is useful as medicaments for treating senile dementia, i.e., as cerebral function improving agents and cerebral metabolism activators or anoxic brain damage protectives ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, hydroxyl or lower alkyl substituted or unsubstituted with hydroxyl, and R.sup.3 is phenyl, tetrahydronaphthyl, pyridyl or thiazolyl having or not having lower alkoxyl, lower alkylamino, a halogen atom or halogenomethyl as a substituent.Further, the present invention provides novel carbamoyl-2-pyrrolidinone compounds represented by the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, hydroxyl or lower alkyl substituted or unsubstituted with hydroxyl, and R.sup.2 is phenyl, tetrahydronaphthyl, pyridyl or thiazolyl having or not having methoxy or lower alkylamino as a substituent, provided that when R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or unsubstituted lower alkyl, R.sup.2 is not unsubstituted phenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kajitani, Etsuo Hasegawa, Akihiro Kawaguchi, Junji Yamamoto, Katsuo Toide, Takaji Honna, Mitsugi Yasumoto, Nobuo Kasahara
  • Patent number: 5185344
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bicyclolactam derivative which has the following formula and is useful as medicaments for treating senile dementia, i.e., as cerebral function improving agents and cerebral metabolism activators or anoxic brain damage protectives ##STR1## wherein R is benzoyl group which may be substituted with halogen atom, lower alkyl group, lower alkoxyl group, nitro group, cyano group or amino group; l is 1 or 2; m is 0 or 1; and n is 0, 1 or 2, provided that m and n are not 0 at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kawaguchi, Atsushi Satoh, Makoto Kajitani, Mitsugi Yasumoto, Junji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4650801
    Abstract: An anti-cancer composition for delivering 5-fluorouracil to cancer tissues which comprises at least one 5-fluorouracil derivative, and a uracil derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Setsuro Fujii, Norio Unemi, Setsuo Takeda
  • Patent number: 4232007
    Abstract: An oral antilipemic agent comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one of acidic polyamino acids having a molecular weight of 10,000 to 100,000 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and an adjuvant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Taiho Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyoshi Kajihara, Toshihiro Hamakawa, Toshiaki Shibata, Takashi Suzue, Setsuro Fujii