Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for inhibiting alveolar airspace enlargement containing adiponectin or an agent for inhibiting alveolar wall destruction containing adiponectin. The pulmonary disease therapeutic agents of the present invention are highly safe drugs that possess an excellent effect of decreasing the deterioration of the pulmonary function, such as airflow limitation, and exhibit an extremely high effect of treating pulmonary disease accompanied by irreversible deterioration in pulmonary function, with fewer adverse side effects such as nausea, vomiting and gastric acid secretion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for inhibiting alveolar airspace enlargement containing adiponectin or an agent for inhibiting alveolar wall destruction containing adiponectin. The pulmonary disease therapeutic agents of the present invention are highly safe drugs that possess an excellent effect of decreasing the deterioration of the pulmonary function, such as airflow limitation, and exhibit an extremely high effect of treating pulmonary disease accompanied by irreversible deterioration in pulmonary function, with fewer adverse side effects such as nausea, vomiting and gastric acid secretion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly safe pharmaceutical preparation effective for diseases caused by MMP-2 and/or MMP-9. The pharmaceutical preparation contains, as an active ingredient, at least one member selected from the group consisting of thiazole derivatives represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 represents a phenyl group that may have 1 to 3 lower alkoxy groups as substituents on the phenyl ring, and R2 represents a pyridyl group that may have 1 to 3 carboxyl groups as substituents on the pyridine ring, and salts thereof. Such thiazole derivatives have MMP-2 and/or MMP-9 inhibitory activity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medicament for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comprising as active ingredients a carbostyril derivative of formula (1): wherein A is a lower alkylene group, R is a cycloalkyl group, the bonding between 3- and 4-positions of the carbostyril skeleton is a single bond or a double bond, or a salt thereof; and probucol.