Abstract: The present invention provides a disinfectant that contains olanexidine in a concentration sufficient to exhibit an effective bactericidal effect, and that has hardly any side effects such as skin irritation. Specifically, the present invention provides a disinfectant containing an aqueous solution that contains olanexidine and at least an equimolar amount of gluconic acid, and substantially contains neither an acid other than gluconic acid nor a salt of the acid other than gluconic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disinfectant that contains olanexidine in a concentration sufficient to exhibit an effective bactericidal effect, and that has hardly any side effects such as skin irritation. Specifically, the present invention provides a disinfectant containing an aqueous solution that contains olanexidine and at least an equimolar amount of gluconic acid, and substantially contains neither an acid other than gluconic acid nor a salt of the acid other than gluconic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disinfectant that contains olanexidine in a concentration sufficient to exhibit an effective bactericidal effect, and that has hardly any side effects such as skin irritation. Specifically, the present invention provides a disinfectant containing an aqueous solution that contains olanexidine and at least an equimolar amount of gluconic acid, and substantially contains neither an acid other than gluconic acid nor a salt of the acid other than gluconic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disinfectant that contains olanexidine in a concentration sufficient to exhibit an effective bactericidal effect, and that has hardly any side effects such as skin irritation. Specifically, the present invention provides a disinfectant containing an aqueous solution that contains olanexidine and at least an equimolar amount of gluconic acid, and substantially contains neither an acid other than gluconic acid nor a salt of the acid other than gluconic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phosphonic acid diester compound represented by General Formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; R5 is phenyl having on the phenyl ring 1–3 substituents selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, halogen-substituted lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen-substituted lower alkoxy, phenoxy, benzyloxy, hydroxyl, halogen, nitro, lower alkylthio, di(lower alkyl)amino, lower alkanolyamino, pyrrolidinyl and phenyl, or the like, provided that R5 is not mono(lower alkoxy)pheny; and R6 is lower alkyl; and an ACAT-1 inhibitor containing the compound as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disinfectant that contains olanexidine in a concentration sufficient to exhibit an effective bactericidal effect, and that has hardly any side effects such as skin irritation. Specifically, the present invention provides a disinfectant containing an aqueous solution that contains olanexidine and at least an equimolar amount of gluconic acid, and substantially contains neither an acid other than gluconic acid nor a salt of the acid other than gluconic acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disinfectant that contains olanexidine in a concentration sufficient to exhibit an effective bactericidal effect, and that has hardly any side effects such as skin irritation. Specifically, the present invention provides a disinfectant containing an aqueous solution that contains olanexidine and at least an equimolar amount of gluconic acid, and substantially contains neither an acid other than gluconic acid nor a salt of the acid other than gluconic acid.

Abstract: A method for observing defects in an amorphous material by transmission electron microscopy. The method generates an incident electron beam into the amorphous material, eliminates a generated diffraction wave to form an image only by a transmission wave coming through the amorphous material, and observes the image under an under-focus condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phosphonic acid diester compound represented by General Formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different, and represent hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; R5 is phenyl having on the phenyl ring 1-3 substituents selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, halogen-substituted lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen-substituted lower alkoxy, phenoxy, benzyloxy, hydroxyl, halogen, nitro, lower alkylthio, di(lower alkyl)amino, lower alkanolyamino, pyrrolidinyl and phenyl, or the like, provided that R5 is not mono(lower alkoxy)pheny; and R6 is lower alkyl; and an ACAT-1 inhibitor containing the compound as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A method for observing defect in an amorphous material by transmission electron microscopy is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: incident electron beam into the amorphous material; eliminating a generated diffraction wave to form an image only by a transmission wave coming through the amorphous material; and observing the image under an under-focus condition. A method for respectively observing an amorphous material and a crystalline material in a composite material containing both of the amorphous material and the crystalline material by transmission electron microscopy is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel phosphonic acid diester derivatives useful as medicines. The phosphonic acid diester derivatives are represented by the general formula: wherein R1 represents amino group, N-lower alkylamino group, N-lower alkenylamino group, or the like; R2 and R3 represent hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group, halogen atom, lower alkoxy group, or the like; R4 represents hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group or phenyl(lower)alkyl group; R5 and R6 represent lower alkyl group; X, Y and Z represent that all of them are carbon atoms or one of them is nitrogen atom and the other two are carbon atoms; Q represents a single bond or alkylene group; or the pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for preventing and curing fatty liver containing, as the effective ingredient compound, a carboxylic acid amide derivative represented by the general formula (1), (wherein R is a lower alkyl group; and X is a halogen atom), and a method for curing fatty liver by administering said agent.

Abstract: A phosphonic diester derivative represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a cycloalkyl group; a phenyl group which may have 1 to 3 substituents selected from the group consisting of a lower alkoxy group, a lower alkyl group, a halogen atom, a halogen-substituted lower alkyl group, a lower alkanoyl group, a nitro group, a benzoyl group, a cyano group, an N-lower alkylcarbamoyl group, an N-phenyl-lower alkylcarbamoyl group, an N-(halogen-substituted phenyl)carbamoyl group and an N,N-di-lower alkylcarbamoyl group; a 1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl group having a halogen-substituted lower alkyl group as a substituent; a thiazolyl group; a pyridyl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom; a benzothiazol-2-yl group having 1 to 2 lower alkoxy groups on the phenyl ring; or a 4,5-dihydrothieno[3,2-e]benzothiazol-2-yl group; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a phenyl lower alkyl group; R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: The invention provides a phosphonic diester derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 -R.sup.7 are substituent groups, as defined in the specification.The derivatives according to the invention are useful as therapeutic or preventive compositions for hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phosphonic diester derivative of the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.9 and R.sup.10 are the same or different and they each represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkoxy group, a nitro group, a lower alkyl group, a halogen-substituted lower alkyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.3 represents a phenyl group, --B--R.sup.6 (wherein B represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom and R.sup.6 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a phenyl group, a phenyl(lower)alkyl group optionally having a halogen atom as a substituent on the phenyl ring, a phenoxy(lower)alkyl group, a lower alkoxycarbonyl(lower)alkyl group, a carboxy(lower)alkyl group or a lower alkenyl group) or --NR.sup.7 R.sup.8 (wherein R.sup.7 and R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for preventing and treating cataract comprising, as an active ingredient, a carboxylic acid amide derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and X are as defined above. The present invention has a marked preventive and therapeutic effect on the cataract belonging to various classifications and particularly on the diabetic cataract.

Abstract: The invention provides a phosphonic diester derivative of the formula: ##STR1## wherein the variables are as defined in the specification. The derivative of the invention has excellent hypolipidemic and hypoglycemic activities and little side effects and hence is useful as therapeutic and prophylactic agents for hyperlipidemic diseases and diabetes and as a therapeutic agent for cataract.

Abstract: The invention provides a phosphonic diester derivative of the general formula ##STR1## The phosphonic diester derivative of the invention has hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic activities, for instance, and is of value as an antidiabetic or anti-hyperlipidemic agent.

Abstract: A gas sensor having a gas sensing element, e.g. a solid electrolyte oxygen concentration cell, attached to a front end of a rod-shaped ceramic holder which is fitted in a tubular metal casing and a short rod-shaped ceramic plug fitted in a rear end portion of the tubular casing so as to leave a space between the rear end of the holder and the plug. Across the space, a plurality of lead wires attached to the sensing element extend through axial holes bored in both the holder and the plug. The space between the holder and the plug and the holes in the plug are filled with a hermetic sealant, which is preferably a lead glass solidified from molten state within the casing, to positively prevent gases subject to measurement from passing through the holes in the holder.