Pharmaceutical compositions containing steviosides
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
InventorsAbelardo Isaac AGUILERA PERALTA, Manuel LOPEZ-CABRERA, Rafael SELGAS GUTIERREZ, Sonja STEPPAN, Jutta PASSLICK-DEEJEN
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Abstract
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing steviol glycoside and or steviol glycoside derivatives as well as to their use as osmotics in particular for use in the treatment of chronic renal failure by dialysis.
Claims17
Steviol glycoside derivatives of the general structure I
- wherein R1 and R2 independently denote either H, or a linear or branched C1 to C6 alkyl group, or a polyethylene glycol unit —(CH2—CH2—O—)n—CH2—CH2—OH with n being an integer from 0 to 500, or one or more glucose, xylose or rhamnose units for use in the treatment of renal failure by dialysis.
The steviol glycoside derivatives according to general formula I, wherein R1 and/or R2 independently are a polyethylene glycol unit of the general formula II
- —(CH2—CH2—O—)n—CH2—CH2—OH II
- with n being an integer from 0 to 500.
The steviol glycoside derivatives according to claim for use in the treatment of chronic renal failure by dialysis, wherein the dialysis treatment is hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.