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US 8,940,715 B2Granted
Lipid-regulating agent and use thereof
AssigneeHayashibara Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuyuki Oku, Michio Kubota, Shigeharu Fukuda, Toshio Miyake
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Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a lipid-regulating agent or a composition for regulating the amount of lipids comprising the agent. The present invention solves the above object by providing a lipid-regulating agent comprising a cyclic tetrasaccharide and/or its saccharide-derivative(s) and a composition for regulating the amount of lipids comprising the lipid-regulating agent.
Claims2
A method for treating adiposis, which comprises
- administering a cyclic tetrasaccharide, represented by the formula of
- cyclo{→6)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→3)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→3)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→},
- to a patient in need thereof in an amount of 0.63 to 3.1 g/kg body weight a day, before or after taking meal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.