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US 5,204,327 AGranted
Treatment of cerebral edema with ANP pharmaceutical compositions
AssigneeAshi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakao Kiyota, Shuichi Sugawara, Hiroshi Hayashi
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Abstract
A pharmaceutical composition and its use in the treatment of cerebral edema are provided wherein the composition comprises an atrial natriuretic peptide having an amino acid sequence of 28 amino acids and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, diluent or excipient.
Claims7
A method for treating cerebral edema, which comprises administering toa patient having cerebral edema an effective anti-cerebral edema amount of at least one peptide represented by formula (I):
- ##STR5## wherein X is an isoleucine residue or a methionine residue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.