CA1158163A - Pharmaceutical composition comprising derivative of aminobenzoic acid for regulating prostaglandin - Google Patents

Abstract

S P E C I F I C A T I O N

TITLE OF THE INVENTION:
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING DERIVATIVE OF
AMINOBENZOIC ACID FOR REGULATING PROSTAGLANDIN

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE:
A pharmaceutical composition for regulating prostag-randins, which comprises (a) a derivative of aminobenzoic acid, represented by the following general formula:

Description

BACRGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention concerns a pharmaceutical composition for use in regulating prostaglandins in mammalian living bodies.
A group of compounds generically called as prosta-glandin (hereinafter referred to PG or PGs (the plural)) have come to be regarded as important recently, because of their various physiological functions in mammalian living bodies. However, since some of PGS have short half-lives or are not stable, there have been problems in utilizing PGs as pharmaceuticals.
There is a method for regulating PGs formed within the mammalian living bodies, for instance, the administration of aspirin (refer to Nature, No. 239: 33 - 34, 1972).
However, aspirin is an inhibitor of cyclooxygenase which participates in the earlier stage of the metabolism of PGs, and accordingly, aspirin should be positioned as the blocker of all PGs. In other words, aspirin should be called as a regulator of the production of all PGs, and it has no activity of raising the production of a certain PG or certain PGs, and accordingly, there is naturally a limit in aspirin's activity as a regulator of PGs. In addition, aspirin has its side-effect of causing gastro-enteric disorders in mammals; therefore, there has been a problem concerning the long term administration of aspirin.
The inventors of the present invention, after searching for a compound capable of regulating PGs without exhibiting side effects as far as possible, have found that a series ~"

115~163 of derivatives of aminobenzoic acid effectively regulate PGs.
SUMMARY OF THE_INVENTION:
According to the invention, there is provided a pharmaceutical composition having effectiveness in regulating prostaglandins (PGs) in mammalian living bodies, which comprises (a) as an active ingredient, a derivative of aminobenzoic acid represented by the following general formula:

f~ NH-Rl (1) ~ , wherein Rl denotes one member selected from the group consisting of the residual groups formed by removing OH at l(alpha) - or 1 (beta) position from arabinose, xylose, rhamnose, glucose, galactose, mannose and fructose, and R is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of one to four carbon atoms or a pharmaceutically acce~table metal and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent therefor.

The above mentioned derivatives of aminobenzoic acid for use as active ingredient according to the present invention are chemically and physically known compounds.
Inoue et al. disclosed the chemical synthesis of the above-mentioned compounds (refer to J. Agr. Chem. Soc.

Japan, Vol. 25, pp 59 - 63 and 291 - 293 ~1951), and Chemical Abstracts Vol. 48, Columns 2001d and 2001i (1954)) and some physical properties of the compounds (refer to J. Agr. Ghem. Soc. Japan, Vol. 26, pp 329 - 331 (1952)), and Chemical Abstracts Vol. 48, Column 2003a (1954)-However, in the above-mentioned literatures, nothing is disclosed concerning the physiological or pharmaceutical properties of the above-mentioned compounds. Moreover, no report has been found hitherto concerning the physio-logical and/or pharmacological properties of the compounds represented by the general formula (1).
BRIEF EXPLANATION OF DRAWINGS:
In the appended drawings:
Fig. 1 shows the effect of the present substance on the aggregation of platelets by arachidonic acid, Fig. 2 shows the effect of the present substance on the aggregation of platelets by adenosine diphosphate (ADP), Fig. 3 shows the effect of the present substance on the aggregation of platelets by collagen, Fig. 4 shows the effect of the present substance on the aggregation platelets by epinephrine, Fig. 5 shows the effect of the present substance on the aggregation of platelets by ristocetin, Fig. 6 shows the effect of the present substance on the aggregation of platelets by thrombin, Fig. 7 shows the effect of the present substance on the level of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in the platelet, Fig. 8 shows the effect of the present substance on the production of malondialdehyde (MDA) in the platelet.
Fig. 9 shows the effect of indomethacin on the hypoten-sive action of the present substance, Fig. 10 shows the effect of the present_substance on the level of cyclic AMP in cancer cells, Fig. 11 shows the effect of the present substance on the production of prostaglandin I2 (PGI2) in 3T3-fibroblasts, Fig. 12 shows the effect of the present substance on the level of prostaglandin F2 ~(PGF2 ), Fig. 3 shows the effect of the present substance on the l~vel of prostaglandin E (PGE), Fig. 14 shows the effect of the present substance on the level of PGs in the plasma of rat administered with the present substance, Fig. 15 shows the effect of the present substance in prevention of the aggregation of the platelets induced by ADP, and Fig. 16 shows the effect of ihe present invention in reducing the level of PGE in cerebrospinal fluid once raised by ?Yrgenic microbes, .

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION:
The active ingredient of the pharmaceutical composition according to the present invention (hereinafter referred to as the present substance) is a compound represented by the following formula (1):

~ NH~Rl wherein R denotes one member selected from the group consisting of the residual groups formed by removing OH at l(alpha)- or l(beta) position from arabinose, xylose, rhamnose, glucose, galactose, mannose and fructose, and R2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl of one to four carbon atoms or a pharmaceutically accep-table metal.
Since the present substance, as will be explained later, is extremely low in acute oral toxicity, has no mutagene-city, does not affect the cellular and humoral immunity of the host and does not disturb the gastro-intestinal bacterial flora because of the absence of antibacterial activity, it can be orally administered for long term without possibility or risk of causing mutagenesis and allergy to persons.
Accordingly, the substance of the present invention is highly safe as a pharmaceutical.
In the above-mentioned general formula (1) of the present substance, Rl denotes, in short, a residue of a monosaccharide, and the monosaccharide may be either D-form or L-form, either alpha-anomer or beta-anomer or a mixture of the anomers. Accordingly, the present substance itself may be also either alpha-anomer or beta-anomer, or a mixture of the anomers.
In the above-mentioned general formula (1), R is a hydrogen atom, a pharmaceutically acceptable metal such as Na, K, 1/2 Ca, 1/2 Mg, 1/3 Al, or an alkyl such as methyl, ethyl, propyl and butyl.

The method of preparation of the present substance is exemplified as follows:

A mixture of 5 g of p-aminobenzoic a-icd, 5 to 6 of a monosaccharide such as L-arabinose, D-xylose, L-rhamnose, D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose and D-fructose and 0.1 to 0.5 g of ammonium chloride, magnasium chloride, formic acid, acetic acid or hydrochloric-acid was heated in 40 to 90 ml of 95 to 100 ethanol or pure methanol under a reflux condenser to induce condensation. After the reaction was over, the reactant was left at room temperature or in a cool place-and the crystals separated out were collected by filtering the reactant solution.
These crystals were washed with water, ethanol or ethyl ether, and then recrystallized from methanol, ethanol or an aqueous solution of methanol or-ethanol.
In order to substitute the hydrogen atom of the carboxyl group of the thus prepared compound with a base, it is preferable to follow the known method. The compound, p-aminobenzoic acid -N- pyranoside, is dissolved in an aqueous ~ 158163 ethanolic solution and an inorganic salt is added to the solution to effect the substitution.
The physical properties of some of the present substan-ces (the active ingredient of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention) prepared by the above-mentioned methods are shown in Table 1. The present substances shown in Table 1 are hereinafter referred to as Specimens Nos. 1 to 11.

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(1) Melting point: determined by the use of micro melting point determination apparatus made by Yanagimoto Works, Japan.

(2) Specific rotation: determined by using direct-reading polarimeter Model OR-50 made by Yanagimoto Works, Japan, with a thickness of 50 mm of an aqueous ethanolic solution of the acidic active ingredient and an aqueous solution of the sodium salt of the acidic active ingredient.

(3) Molecular composition: Elementary analysis wa-s carried out by using CHN-Coder Model MT-2 made by Yanagimoto Works, Japan.

(4) Ultraviolet absorption spectrum: --by using self-recording spectrophotometer Model PS-3T made by Hitachi Works, Japan, on an aqueous-ethanolic solution of the acidic active ingredient and on an aqueous solution of the-sodium salt of the aci.dic active ingredient of the medicine.
The followings are the physiological properties of the present substances described in the order of (1) acute toxicity, (2).antimicrobial activity, (3) mutagenicity, (4) delayed-type intracutaneous reaction, (5) antibody-producing activity and (6) effect on the stomach.
(1) Acute oral toxicity:
The acute oral toxicity of he present substances were examined by using groups of ICR-JCL mouse and orally administer~
ing each of the representatives of present substances forcibly as an aqueous solution in distilled water or as an aqueous 1158~63 suspension also in distilled water at predetermined dosages, respectively. After observing the toxicological symptoms, if any, for 6 days, and recording the mortality until 7th day of the administration, LD50 (acute oral) was calculated by the method of Litchfield-Wilcoxon, and autopsy was carried out on dead mice and live mice to obtain informations.
The results are shown in Table 2. As is seen in Table 2, LD50 (acute oral) of the representatives of the present substance is very large showing that they are extremely low in lo toxicity.

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~, Sodium o-aminobenzoate N-D-galactoside 6.10 2. Sodium o-aminobenzoate N-L-rhamnoside 12.50 3. Sodium m-aminobenzoate N-D-mannoside >10 4. Sod,um p-aminobenzoate N-D-mannoside >10 Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-glucoside >15 6. Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-galactoside 14.55 7. Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-xyloside 11.75 8. Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-L-rhamnoside 12.80 9. Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-fructoside >10 10. Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-L-arabinoside 10.80 11. Methyl o-aminobenzoate N-D-mannoside > 7.5 In addition, no abnormal findings was obtained on autopsy on dead animals and live animals.
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The present substance was dissolved in distilled water at a series of two fold dilution system. These diluted solutions were mixed with agar medium in 9 times by volume and the mixture was poured into a petridish. Heartinfusion agar medium was used for bacteria, and Sabouraud's agar medium was used for fungi.
After streaking with the pre-culture, the inoculated plates were incubated at 37C for 20 to 24 hours for bacteria and at 25C for 3 to 7 days for fungi, and then the growth was examined.
The following microorganisms were used for assessing the antimicrobial activity of the present substan-ce:
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Bacillus subtilis IAM 1069 Saccharomyces cerevisiae IAM 4207 2 Candida albicans ATCC 752 0 Trichophyton mentagrophytes IFO 6124 Aspergillus niger IAM 3001 As the result of the above-mentioned tests, it was found that none of the tested active ingredients showed growth inhibition of all the microorganisms at a concentration of 1 mg/ml.

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(3) Mutagenicity:
As the first stage, the present substances were tested by rec-assay (i), and as the second stage, they were tested by reversion assay (ii).
(i) A strain of Bacillus subtilis M 45, a defectant of recombination repair, and a wild strain of Bacillus subtilis H 17 keeping recombination repair activity were inoculated to make their own streaks not crossed at the start on a B- 2 agar culture plate (made by dissolving 10 g of meat extract, 10 g 1~ of polypeptone, 5 g of sodium chloride and 15 g of agar in 1000 ml of distilled water at p~ 7.0). Then, a paper disc of 8 mm in diameter, which absorbed 0.04 ml of an aqueous so-lution of the present substance in sterilized water was put on the surface of the agar plate so as to cover the starting poi-nt of the above-~entioned streaks of bacterial culture. The inoculated B-2 agar plàte was kept at 37C for a night and the length of growth-inhibited region was measured. Kanamycin was used as the negative control and Mitomycin C was used as the positive control.

The results of the rec-assay are shown in Table 3.
(ii) The strains TA 98 and TA 100 (both are histidine requiring) of Salmonella typhimurium were used in the reversion assay.
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added, 0.1 ml of the bacterial suspension and 0.1 ml of an aqueous solution of the present substance were admixed and the mixture was layered on the minimum agar culture medium. After 2 days of incubation at 37C, the number of revertant colonies was counted. Furylfuramide (AF-2) was used as the positive control~ The results of the reversion assay are shown in Table 4.
As is seen in Table 3, the present substances showed a weak mutagenicity only at a high concentration of 5000 microgram/disk. And as is seen in Table 4, the rate of occur-IU rence of mutation by the present substance did not shown anydifference form that in the control to which no substance was added, even at a high concentration of 5000 microgram/plate.
These findings demonstrate that the present substance is safe in view of mutagenicity.

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1~58163 (4) Delayed-type intracutaneous reaction:
In order to know the effects of the present substances on cellular immunity, the foot pad reaction test was carried out using ICR-JCL mice as experimental animals and erythrocytes of sheep as an antigen.
A mouse was primary-sensitized by injecting 0.2 ml of an aqueous 10% suspension of sheep erythrocytes in physiological saline solution from the caudal vein and after 7 days of the first sensitization, 0.05 ml of an aqueous 40~ suspension of sheep erythrocytes in physiological saline solution was injected in t-he foot pad for the second sensitization. ~The thickness -of the foot pad was determined on the next day. The admini-stration of the present substance was carried out at the dosage of 250 mg/kg/day once a day for consecutive 5 days--centeri-ng -around the day when the first sensitization was carried out.
As the result, the increment of the thickness of the foot pad of the- mouse administered with the present substance showed no significant difference as compared to the increment in the group of mouse not administered with the active ingredient.
(5) Antibody-producing activity In order to know the effects of the present substances on humoral immunity, the hemagglutination test was carried out using ICR-JCL mice sensitized with sheep eryth-ocytes.
A mouse was sensitized by injecting 0.2 ml of an aqueous 10~ suspension of sheep erythrocytes in physiological saline solution from the caudal vein and after 7 days of sensitization the mouse blood was sampled for the hemagglutination test of determination of the antibody-producing activity. The present substance was administered for consecutive 5 days centering around the day of sensitization, intraperitoneally at the dosage of 250 mg/kg/day.
As the result, there was no significant difference in agglutination titer between the group administered with the present substance and the control group.

(6) Effect of the present substance on the stomach:
Five grams of the present substance (each of Specimens Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, 5, S, 7, 8, 9, lO and 11) and of aspirin were respectively administered to each Beagle of body weight of 9 to 12 kg as an aqueous suspension in distilled water of adjusted pH of 3, and after 90 min of the administration, ;the state of hemorrhage in the dog's stomach was examined. As the result, hemo=rhage in the stomach was observed only on the dogs admini-stered with aspirin, however, no hemorrhage in the stomach was found on the dogs respectively administered with each of Spe-cimens Nos. 1 to ll.
The following description is the summary of the pharma-ceutical specificities of the present substances, the more detailed description appearing in Examples:
(1) Regulation of prostaglandin The present substance concerns the regulation of PGs such as PGA, PGB, PGC, PGD, PGE, PGF, PGG, PGH, PGI, TXA, and TXB and the metabolic products of them. In addition, the present substance not only regulates any one of the above-mentioned PGs but also regulates several kinds of PGs.
The regulating function of the present substance on the production of PGs and their metabolites are shown by the following facts:
(a) Supression of aggregation of the platelets It has been known that the aggregation of the paItelets is mainly induced by PGG2, PGH2 and TXA2, and it has been confirmed that the present substance has a function of suppress-ing the aggregation of the platelets (refer to Examples 2 and 5).
(b) Raising of cyclic adenosine monophosphate It has been known that cyclic adenosine monophosphate(cyclic AMP) is closely related to PGs, particularly to PGD, PGE and PGI, and the-present substance showed..a---function of ~aising the level of cyclic AMP in the platelets and the cells in--c~lture (refer to Examples 3, 6 and 8).
(c) Suppression of the production of malondialdehyde It has been confirmed that the present substance has an..inhibiting action on the production of malondialdehyde (MDA) in the platelets, MDA having been known as a metabolic product of PGs (refer to Example 4).
(d) Acceleration of the production of PGI2 It has been confirmed that the presen. substance acts acceleratively on the production of PGI2 in the cells cultured in vitro (refer to Example 7).

ll58163 (e) Pertaining to the production of some PGs According to the experimental results on the metabolism of PGs in vitro using arachidonic acid as a starting material, it has been shown that the present substance relates to the 2~ PGE2, 6-keto-PGFl a and PGF2 (refer to Example 1).
(f) Effect on the biosynthesis of PGE and PGF
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It has been shown in a in vitro culture experiment of cells, that the substance of the present inve~tion has an effect on the bio-synthesis of PGE and PGF2 ~ (refer to Examples 9 and 10).
(g) Inhibition of proliferation of tumour-cells The examination of the proliferati.on--of tumour-cells and the level of intra-tumour cell-PGE on tumour-bearing -experimental animals administered with the substance of the -pres~t invention confirmed the inhibition of the-proliferation of the tumour cells and also the raising of the level of PGE in tumour cells of the animals administered with the present sub.s~ance (refer-to Examples 11, 12, 13 and 14).
(h) Fortifying effect on the transfer of pigm_nt .
In an experiment in which the present substance was administered to tumour-bearing experimental animals and the degree of transfer of a dye-staff into the tumour-tissue of the animal was examined, a fortifying effect on the transfer of the exogenous dye-staff was confirmed suggesting the blood-vessel dilating effect of the present substance (refer to Example 15).

(i) Inhibition on metastasis of tumours In an experiment in which the present substance was administered to experimental animals before and after the transplantation of tumour cells to the animals, an effect of inhibiting the metastasis of the transplanted tumour cells was recognized (refer to Example 16).
~ j) Reduction of the level of 6-keto-PGF1 ~
In tumour-bearing animals, it has been observed that the level of 6-keto-PGFl a in their plasma is remarkably raised as compared to that of non-tumour-bearing animals, however, it has been confirmed that the once raised level is-reduced to the normal level by the administration of the present substance (refer to Example 17).

e In general, PGs have been found in several organs of-wkole body, and-they have their close relationships to the functions of the organs. Furthermore, it has been known that the physiological and pharmacological functions of PGs cover an-extremely broad region. That is, PGs act mainly on the dilation and contraction of blood vessels as their pharmacological action on circulation system, PGE and PGI being-stronger in dilating, and TXA, on the contrary, contracting the artery.
These functions cause the raise or the reducti~n of blood pressure as the results, and mean the remedial function on the stenocardia and the arrhythmia.
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1~5~163 aggregating the platelets causes the arteriosclerosis, the cerebral infarct, the myocardial infarction and the cerebral apoplexy, PGs have strong effects on the platelets. That is, PGD, PGE and PGI have an antagonistic function against the action of aggregating platelets, and TXA2, PGG2, PGH2 and PGE2 have an inducinq or accelerating action on the aggregation.
Accordingly, it will be clearly understood that the treatments and the prevention of the above-mentioned diseases would be made possible by an appropriate adjustment of PGs.

Moreover, in the diabetes, it has been reported that the production of PGI2 in the vascular system of the patient suffuring from diabetes is limited, or the content of PGE and PGF2 is high, and thus the relationship between this disease and PGs has been gradually elucidated.
The functions of PGs in the respiratory system has also been studied and it is known that PGE reduces the airway resistance. The function is to suggest the function of PGE in anti-asthma, acceleration of respiration, anti-coughing and a~ti-expectoration.
On the other hand, as a function concerning immunity, the suppressing action on the release of the slow-reacting substance of anaphlaxis is recognized in PGI2 and its metabolite, and also PGs have anti-allergic action, anti-an~phlaxis action, and it is easily presumable that PGs will be effective in treating various diseases due to auto-immunization, especially the intractable diseases represented by rheumatism.

It is well known that the now commercialized anti-inflammatory drug, indomethacin, relates to cyclooxygenase in the metabolic route of PGs and that several kinds of PGs concern the inflammatory action. In short, it will show that an anti-inflammatory effect is expected by the regulation of the metabolism of PGs.
On the other hand, PGs show a strong effect on the digestive system. That is, PGE and PGI suppress the secretion of the gastric juice, and it is said that as a result, they exhibit the anti-ulcer action. It is reported that particularly, the action is strong in PGI.
Concerning the kidney, it is reported that PGI2 mainly shows a diuretic action. Among the commerciaIized antihyperten-sive agents, the position occupied by the diuretics is still -important, and so the increased production of PGI2 means its vaIue as a diuretic and an antihypertensive agent.
The pharmacological action of PGs on the genital system is also well known, and PGs concern the facilitating action of uterine moveme~t and uterine tension or inversely the suppressing action of uterine tension. These functions are the base of evaluation of PGs as an accelerating agent for delivery, a contraceptive and an agent for interrupting pregnancy.
Furthermore, an action of PGs as a psychonerval drug is under consideration. In the cerebral cells, a large amount of PGD is distributed, and now a relationship between the epilepsy and PGD is watched with keen interest.

ll~8163 It has been known that the peroxidation of lipid is accelerated by aging and arteriosclerosis, and that as a result, the activity of PGI-synthetic enzyme is suppressed. In addition, it is also reported that this PGI has a stabilizing action on the lysosome membrane. These facts show the value of PGI as an anti-peroxidized Iipid agent and lead to the possibility of preventing the radiation disturbance and the aging.
Recently, PGs have been given attention in connection to cancers. Particularly, several studies have been carried out on PGD, PGE and PGI in the above-mentioned field, and it has been elucidated that these PGs concern the suppressing effect on the proliferation of cancer cells, the normalization of the cancer cells, the metastasis of cancer, etc. These facts are said to suggest the possibility of suppressing-the proliferation --o-f--cancer and preventing the metastasis of cancer.
- As has been descri~ed, the pharmacological functions of PGs cover-various fields with various modes, and so it is no exaggeration to say that PGs concern all:the diseases in some cQnnection. Accordingly, the fact that- the~p-resent substance regulates PGs gives us an expectation that PGs are useful in preventing and treating the above-mentioned diseases.
For instance, as for its anti-tumour function, as has been described before, an anti-tumour activity against L-cells is recognized in PGE [D.R. Thomas et al., Experimental Cell Research 84, 40-46 (1974)], and it has been recognized that the increase and decrease of PGD relates to the metastasis and the ~ ,.. ' 11581~

proliferation of tumours [F.A. Fitzpatrik et al., Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci., USA, 76 (4), 1765 - 1769 (1979)] and that PGI acts suppressively on the proliferation of tumours. However, these information only show that each prostaglàndin has an anti-tumour activity as one of its physiological activities. On the other hand, as will be shown in Example 1, it has been elucidated by the inventor that the present substance has a function of chang-ing the amount of both PGD and PGE in cells, that is, a function of regulating PGs which differs from each other in the same cell.
Moreover, as is shown in another Example, it is clear that the present substance acts on TXA and PGI suppressively or accele-ratively, and this fact clearly shows that the present substance not only changes a single prostaglandin but also changes various PGs simultaneously.
Such a substance changing many kinds of prostaglandins at-the same time has never been recognized hith-erto, and such a property may be said to be specific to the present substance.
Now, the formulation of the active ingredient to make the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is descrlbed below.
In the case where the pharmaceutical composition is used as an PGs-regulating agent, it is able to use the pharma-ceutical composition in the form which ls convenlent to obtain the effectiveness according to the kinds and the symptoms of the disease, and moreover, the active ingredient may be used as itself or may be used as mixtures combined with any diluent allowable in pharmaceutical process and with other medicines.
The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is administered orally or parenterally and accordingly, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may take any form optionally for the oral or parenteral administration.
The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may be offered as a form of unit administration. The form of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may be powder, granule, tablet, sugar-coated tablet, capsulated one, suppository, suspension, solution, emulsifiable concentrate, ampouled one, injection, etc. As a diluent,-any-one of solids, liquids and semisolids may be utilized, for instance, excipients, binders, wetting agents, disintegrating agents, surfactants, demulcents, dispersing agents, buffering agents-,-perfumes, -preservatives, dissolution aids and solvents. Moreover, one or more than one of these adjuvants may be used in-combination or in mixtures.
The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may be formulated by any-known method, and the amount of the active ingredient (the present substance) contained in the composition (preparation) is generally from 0.01% to 100% by weight.
The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may be administered orally or parenterally to human or animals, however, it is preferably administered orally. Sublingual administration is included in oral administration. Parenteral administration includes subcutaneous-, intramuscular- and intravenous injection and the injection by drop method.
The dose of the pharmaceutical compositlon of the present invention depends upon the age, the personal difference and the state of disease, and whether the object is human or animal and accordingly, an extraordinal amount may be administered than the following dose: Generally, for human, the oral dose is 0.1 - 1000 mg/kg body weight/day, preferably 1 - 500 mg/kg/day and the parenteral dose is 0.01 - 200 mg/kg/day, preferably 0.1 - 100 mg/kg/day divided into 1 - 4 parts, one part being administered in one time.
The followings are the more detailed explanation of the formulation, the production and the physio-logical activities of the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention in examples.

EXAMPLE OF FORMULATION 1: (part means part by weight, hereinafter) The following components were uniformly mixed, and the mixture was pulverized or finely granulated to be a powdery formulation of less than 350 in mean size:
(1) Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-galactoside: 10 parts (2) Heavy magnesium oxide : 15 parts (3) Gal2ctose : 75 parts The thus prepared formulation is used as it is, or after being capsulated.

1~581~3 EX2~lPLE OF FORMULATION 2:

The following components were uniformly mixed, pulve-rized and processed to wet granules. They are dried and sifted to be granules of 177 to 1410 ~ in size:

(1) Sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-xyloside 45 parts, (2) Starch 15 parts, (3) Galactose 16 parts, (4) Crystalline cellulose21 parts, (5) Polyvinyl alcohol3 parts, and (6) Wate~ used for processing to prepare the wet granule 30 parts.
-EXAMPLE OF FORMULATION 3:
Instead of using sodium p-aminobenzoate N-D-xyloside in Example of formulation 2, by using sodium o-aminobenzoate N-L-~amnoside, granular formulation was prepared as in Example of formulation 2. To 96 parts of the thus prepared granular formulation, 4 parts of calcium stearate were added and the mixture was compression-molded to be tablets of 10 mm in diameter.

EXAMæLE OF FORMULATION 4:
~0 To 90 parts of granular formulation prepared in Example of formulation 2, 10 parts of crystalline cellulose and 3 parts of calcium stearate were added, and the thus prep~red mixture was compression-molded to be tablets of 3 mm in diameter.
The thus prepared tablets were coated by a mixed suspension ~ '-'SO

. . ~

115~163 comprising syrup-gelatin and precipitated calcium carbonate to be sugar coated tablets.

EXAMPLE OF FORMULATION 5:
The foIlowing components were mixed well while warming, and the mixture was ampouled and sterilized to be injection.
(l) Sodium m-aminobenzoate N-L-rhamnoside : 0.6 part, ~ 2) A non-ionic surfactant : 2.4 parts and (3) An aqueous physiological saline solution : 97 parts.

EXAMPLE l:
Effect of the present substance on PGs-metabolism of arachidonic acid taken into lymphocytes.
After adjusting the lymphocytes taken from the spleen --of_a BALB/C mous-e to -a concentration of l X 10 cells/ml, 2 ~Ci -o-f- ~--arachidonic acid was added and the mixture-was incubated at a temperature of 37C for 90 min. The incubated lymphocytes were washed three times with the culture medium. After again ajus~ing the cells to a concentration of l X 107 cells per ml, the culture were poured into four siliconized test tubes in an amount of 2 ml/tube. Two test tubes were used as control, and into each of the remaining two test tubes, 500 ~g of the present substance, in this Example, Specimen ~o. 7 w~-s added, and then the four test tubes were incubated at 37C for 60 min. After incubation, the test tubes were centrifugated at 0C for 5 min.

at l,200 rpm.

The thus obtained pellets of cells were taken into a vial containing 2 ml of the culture medium and after adding 5 ml of petroleum ether, the vial was shaken and the ether layer was removed, the remaining aqueous layer being adjusted to pH of 3.5 by aqueous 0.5N hydrochloric acid solution.
The aqueous acidic solution was extracted three times with each 5 ml of ether, and the ether extract was dried to solid. The solid material was subjected to ester; f; cation by a solution of diazomethane. The esterified reaction mixture was subjected to thin-layer chromatography and was developed with a 90:50:20:100 (by volume) mixed solvent of ethyl acetate:
iso-octane: acetic acid: water. The identification of the thus appeared spots on the chromatogram was carried out by using the following authentic specimens of PGD2, PGE2, PGF2 ~ and 6-keto-``PGFl ~. The silicagel layer of the separated chlomatogram was s-craped out and dissolved into a liquid for the -liquid scintil-lator to be counted. From the change of the counts the change of PGs was determined. The results are shown in Table 5.
- Table 5: Change of Prostaglandins in Cell Culture in vitro ~ Atlr``~ ~6 ket~ ~G~l_ ~ PG~2 ~ P ~ P~D

Notes: 1) Amount of addition of the present substance, Specimen No. 7 (g/ml), 2) no change was observed, 3) change was slightly observed, 4) change was clearly observed.

Similar results were obtained in the cases where Specimens Nos. 1 to 6 and 8 to 10 were respectively used at an amount of 500 ~g/ml. These results show that the respective subs ances of the present invention regulate the metabolism of -PGs even in in vitro test.

EXAMPLE 2:
The action of the present substance on-aggregation of platelets:
Since it has been elucidated that the aggregation of platele*s is mainly induced by PGG2, PGH2 and TXA2 all of which are series of PGs, the action of the present substance on aggregation of the platelets was examined as follows:
As the anti-coagulant, an aqueous solution of citrate for the determination of erythrocyte sedimentation was used, and to one part of the citrate solution nine parts of the human blood newly collected was added. The mixture was centrifugated for 6 min at 400XG, and the supernatant layer was used for preparing the human platelet rich plasma (PRP). The remainder was further centrifugated for 20 min at 700XG, and the supernatant was kept ~. .

11~816.3 as the platelet poor plasma (PPP). The change of transmittance of PRP was measured in an agrigometer (Type PAP-3, manufactured by Biodata Co.) to determine the degree of aggregation of the platelets, the aggregation being caused by addition of an aggultinating agent.
The aggultinating agents used herein were arachldonic acid (1.64 mmol), adenosine diphosphate (50 ~mol), collagen (0.26 mg/ml), epinephrine (0.11 mmol), ristocetin (2.0 mg/ml) and thrombin (0.5 U per ml). Each of the agents was added to PRP after 2 min of the addition of one of the present substances (Specimens Nos. 1 to 8).
The results are shown in Figs. 1 to -6. As is seen in Figs., every substance of the present inventlon tested herein showed an inhibiting effect against the aggregation of the p-latelets caused by every aggulutinating agent. The above-ment~Qned phenomeno~ shows that every one of the-present subs-tances regulates the production of PGs, particularly that of PGG2, PGH2 and TXA2 . EXAMPLE 3:
Action of the present substance on the level of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cyclic AMP):
Cyclic AMP is known to closely relate to PGs other than that it is known as an intracellular messenger, and the relation-ship is closer to PGD, PGE and PGI. Accordingly, in the present Example, the influence of the present substance on cyclic AMP

115~163 in the cell of platelet was examined as follows:
PRP (platelet rich plasma) was prepared by the pre-determined method and it was centrifugated for 20 min at 700XG
to obtain a supernatant liquid named PPP (platelet poor plasma).
The precipitate was re-floated in 1/3 times by volume of PPP to prepare 3 times concentrated PRP.
In the thus prepared concentrated PRP, each aqueous solution of the present substances of a pre-determined concen-tration (in this case, Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8? and an aqueous physiological saline solution, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 5 min. Then, the procedures of boiling, homogenating and centrifugating were carried out-in this order, and 50 ~1 of the supernatant liquid was used ~for measuring cyclic AMP. The measurement was carried out-foIIowing-the method of Gilman. As a positive control, PGEl was used. The results are shown in Fig. 7. As- is seen in Fig. 7, an acti-on of raising the level of intra-platelet cellular cyclic AMP is shown in the present substance, and from this fact it is presumed that the,present substance affects the metabolism of PGs.

EXAMPLE 4:
Action of the present substance on the level of malondialdehyde (MDA) of platelet:
PRP collected from human blood was centrifugated and washed to be "washed platelets". After adding one of the resent s~bstances (Specimens ~, 7 and 8) t~ the washed 11~81B~

platelets, Caionophore A-23187 was further added to them and the mixture was incubated for 5 minutes at 37C. Then, thiobar-bituric acid was added to the incubated mixture, as a colour developer, and the mixture was extracted with a solvent mixture of methanol and butanol. The absorption at 535 nm was colori-metrically read to determine the amount of malondialdehyde (MDA).
The results are shown in Fig. 8. The present substance suppressed the production of MDA. From this fact also, the participation of the present substance in the metabolism of PGs is presuma-ble.

IO EXA~LE 5:
The effect of indomethacin on the hypotensive action of the present substance:
It is known that PGs are produced from arachidonic acid, -and cyclooxygena-se participates in the conversion of arachidonic acid to PGG2, ~hat indomethacin inactivates the-above-mentioned cyclooxygenase and further that the metabolism of PGs is com-pletely stopped by the administration of indomethacin.
Accordingly, the transition of blood pressure of the spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) male rats 30 to 40 weeks after birth was compared in both cases (1) where only the present substance was administered at a rate of 100 mg/kg and (2) where indomethacin was administered 2 times at a rate of 2.5 mg/kg/time before and after the administration of the present substance.
The present substance, Specimen No. 7, was dissolved into dis-tilled water or dispersed in an aqueous 2~ solution of carboxymethylcellulose, and forcibly administered orally.
Indomethacin was dispersed in an aqueous 2% solution of carboxy-methylcellulose, and the dispersion was also forcibly administered orally, one hour before and after the administration of the present substance.
- The results are shown in Fig. 9. The hypotensive effect of the present substance disappeared in the case where indomethacin was administered before and after the administration of the present substance. In consideration that indomethacin is an inhibitor of the metabolism of prostaglandin, the effective--ness of the present substance in reducing the blood pressure is attributable to its close relationship to prostaglandin.

EXAMPLE 6:
The action of the present substance on the level of cyclic AMP in the tumour cell of sarcoma 180:
The present substance was added to 100 ~1 of the ascites-type tumour taken from the abdominal cavity of sarcoma 180-bearing mice -to be a predetermined concentration, in this case, Specimen No. 7, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 5 min. After incubation, the culture was boiled, homogenized and centrifugated to obtain a supernatant liquid.
The ~hus obtained supernatant liquid was subJected to the determination of cyclic AMP by the method of Gilman. The results are shown in Fig. lO. A function of the present substance of raising the level of cyclic AMP in the tumour cells of sarcoma 180 was recognized. The participation of the present substance in the metabolism of PGs is presumed also from this fact.

EXAMPLE 7:
The influence of the present substance on the PGI2-productivity of 3T3 fibroblasts:
The influence of the present substance on the PGI2-productivity of the 3T3 fibroblasts of a mouse was examined.
As the control, a culture was used in which arachidonic acid, the precursor of PGs, is added to a cultured medium of mouse-3T3 fibroblasts, and the mixture was incubated for 5 min at 37C to produce PGI2.
On the other hand, 30 mmol of each of the present substances (Specimens Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 7 to 11) was added to 4 ml of a cul~ured medium of 3T3 cells~, and th,e mixture was incu~2ted for 2 min. at 37C. After adding arachidonic acid to the incubated culture, it was again incubated as in the control to produce PGI2. The just-mentioned culture was named as the tre-a-ted group.
After obtaining the respective supernatant liquids of 2~ the cultures, the control and the treated group, their producti-vities of PGI2 were compared while using the suppressing action on the aggregation of the platelets induced by the addition of 2.43 mmol of arachidonic acid, as an indicator.

The results are shown'in Fig. 11, and as is seen in Fig. 11, although the suppression of platelet-aggregation was 11581~3 recognized to an extent in the control after 5 min of the addi-tion of arachidonic acld as a precursor of PGs, a remarkable suppression was recognized in the treated group to indicate the raised productivity of PGI2 by the addition of the present substance.

EXAMPLE 8:
The effect of the present substance on the metabolism of cyclic AMP and cyclic guanosine monophosphate in cancer-bearing mouse:
Ehrlich cancer cells were transplanted-into the abdominal cavity of female ICR/JCL mice after-.S.weeks of birth at a rate of 1 X 106, cells/animal, and while feeding the mice, the present substance, Specimen No.7, was intraperitoneally -administered to the mice every day from the next day of trans-plan ation for -5 days at a rate of 200 mg/kg/day. On the 6th day, the mice were sacrificed with ether to collect each 5 ml of ascites. After adding tetrasodium ethylenediamminetetraacetate into the thus collected ascites, the mixture was centri.fugated for 10 min at a temperature of 4C and 1,500 rpm to separate the supernatant liquid and the cancer cells. The supernatant liquid was again centrifugated at 4C and 3,000 rpm for 15 min.
The separated cancer cells were washed with Hank's solution and then subjected to repeated centrifugation for 5 times at 800 rpm for each 5 min to remove impurities such as erythrocytes, etc.
After homogenizing 1 X 108 cells of the cancer in 3 ml of an 11581~3 aqueous 6% solution of trichloroacetic acid at a temperature of 0C, the homogenate was centrifugated for 20 min at 3000XG to obtain a liquid extract. After adding 10% by weight of an aqueous lN solution of hydrochloric acid to the liquid extract, it was extracted 5 times with each two times by volume of ether to remove trichloroacetic acid. After completely removing ether by warming the residual liquid on a water bath of 80C, the residue was freeze-dried.
To the supernatant of ascites, an equaL amount of an a~ueous 10% solution of trichloroacetic acid was added, and after leaving for 15 min at a temperature of 0~C, it was centri-fugated for 20 min at 3000XG to obtain a supernatant liquid.
To the thus obtained supernatant liquid, O.l ml of an aqueous lN solution of hydrochloric acid was added, and after removing trichloroacetic -acid with 2 times by volume of ether, ether was completely removed on a water bath of 80C, and~the residue was freeze-dried.
Both the freeze-dried specimens derived respectively from the cancer cells and the supernatant of ascites were respectively dissolved into 1 ml of an aqueous buffer soluti?r of pH of 4.0 contair.ing 50 mmol of acetic acid and subjected to the radio-immuno assay using anti-cyclic AMP anti-body and anti-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (Gl~P~ ~ntl-body for determining cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP respectively in the cancer cells and in the supernatant liquid of ascites. The results are shown in Table 5A. The raise of the contents of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP

in the cancer cells was recognized, the cancer cells being derived from the rat to which the present substance has been administered. From this fact, the influence of the present substance on the metabolism in vivo of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP
of the cancer cells derived from the transplanted cancer cells in the mouse's body was recognized.

Table 5A: Level of cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP

unit: pM

Group ¦ Cyclic AMP per ¦ Cyclic GMP per ¦ 108 cancer cells ¦ 108 cancer cells Control 19.5 0.59 substance .
EXAM~-~E 9:
Effect of the present substance on the amount of PGs in a culture medium wherein human leukemia cells are cultured:
To each 10 ml of a culture medium prepared by adding 10% of bovine foetal serum and one of the pres-ent substance, Specimen No.7, at a concentration of 50, 500 or 5,000 ~g~ml to Eagle's culture medium and placed in a polys~y~ene flask of 75 cm2 in bottom surface, 5 X 105 cultured cells of human dinuclear leukemia J-lll strain were inoculated and cultured at 37C under a mixed atmosphere of 5% by volume of gaseous carbon monoxide nd 9S~ by vol~me of air for 7 days. During the cultivation, the culture medium was replaced on the second day and the fourth day with respective fresh ones, and each spent medium was subjected to centrifugation as soon as possible at a temperature of 4C at 1,500 rpm to obtain each supernatant liquid of cultured medium. The content of PGE and PGF2 ~ in each supernatant liquid was determined by H-Prostaglandin E Radioimmunoassay Kit and H-Prostaglandin F Radioimmunoassay Kit (manufactured by Clinical assay Co. U.S.A.).
The results are shown in Figs. 12 and 13. As is seen in Fig. 12, the cumùlated amount of PGF2 a increased as the time passed, and as is seen in Fig. 13, the cumulated amount of PGE decreased as the time passed, in general. However, the rate of increase of PGF2 ~ was reduced as the concentration of the prese~t substance wa-s increased, and the rate of decrease of PGE
was -aised as the concentration of the present substance was increased. -At any rate, the participation of the present substance in the metabolism-of PGs is observed from Figs. 12 and 13.

0 EXAMPLE 10:
Effect of the present substance on the amount of PGs in a culture medium wherein human uterine cancer cells are cultured:
To each 10 ml of a culture medium prepared by adding 10~ bovine foetal serum and one of the present substance, Specimen No.7, at a concentration of 0 (control), 10, 100, 500, 1,000 or 5,000 ~g/ml to Eagle's culture medium and placed in a polystyrene flask of 75 cm2 in bottom surface, HeLa S3 cultured cells of human uterine cancer were inoculated at a rate of 5 X 10 cells/flask and cultured at 37C for 2 days under a mixed atmosphere of 5% by volume of gaseous carbon dioxide and 95~ by volume of air. After the incubation was over, the whole cultured medium was centrifugated at a temperature of 4C at 1,500 rpm to obtain a supernatant liquid of the cultured medium.
The content of PGE in the supernatant liquid was determined by 3H-Prostaglandin E ~adioimmunoassay Kit. The results are shown in Table 6.
As is seen in Table 6, the amount of PGE in the culture medium (without cancer cells) was reduced by the addition of -the present substance. This fact shows the effect of the present subs'~nce on the metabolism of PGs.

Table 6: Content of PGE in the culture=me-dium (without cells) Concentration of Concentration of Change of Concentration the present sub- PGE after culture of PGE during culture stance (~g/ml) (pg/ml) (pg/ml) . . _ _ .
0 (control) 312 +120 .~ ' ~158163 EXAMPLE 11:
Effect of the present substance on PGE in cancer cells and in ascites of mouse transplanted with Ehrlich cancer cells:
To groups of female ICR-JCL mouse after 5 weeks of her birth, Ehrlich cancer cells were intraperitoneally transplanted at a rate of 1 X 106 cells/animal and one of the present subs-tances, Specimen No.7 was administered intraperitoneally to the mice every day from the next day of transplantation for 5 days at a rate of 200 mg/kg/day. The mice were sacrificed with ether on the 6th day of transplantation, and the ascites were collected.
After adding tetrasodium ethylenediamminetetraacetate with 1~
by weight of aspirin into the ascites, it was centrifugated for 10 min at 1500 rpm and a temperature of 4C to -separate the -cancer cells and the supernatant liquid. The supernatant liquid was ~urther centrifugated at 4C and 3000 rpm f-or-15 min.
The separated cancer cells was washed with ~Iank's solution, and was subjected to centrifugation 5 times at 800 rpm for each 5 min to remove impurities-such as erythrocytes, etc. The thus purified cancer cells of 1 X 108 in number were homogenized at 0C after addition of 7 ml of methanol, and the homogenate was filtered with filter paper. After adding 14 ml of chloroform to the filtrate and mixing, ~he mix~ule was l~ft for 30 min at a temperature of 4C. Then, the precipitated protein was removed by suction-filtration, and the thus obtained filtrate was dried to solid in a rotary evaporator. The dried solid material was put into a separating funnel together with chloroform, methanol and an aqueous dilute solution of hydrochloric acid of pH of 2, and after well mixing it was dissolved into the lower aqueous layer of a solution of 2 ml. The content of PGE in the solution and in the supernatant liquid of the ascites was determined by H-Prostaglandin E Radioimmunoassay Kit. The resuLts are shown in Table 7. In the animal transplanted with cancer cell and administered with the-present substance, PGE is contained in larger amount in the cancer cells and is contained in smaller amount in the supernatant liquid of the ascites as compared to those in animal transplanted with the same cancer cells but not administered with the present substance. ThIs-fact suggests strongly the relationship between the administration of the present substance and the metabolism of PGs.

Table 7: Con*ent of PGE in cancer cells and ascites (supernatant) Content of PGE in 108 cells Content of PGE in super-Group natant liquid of ascites (ng) (ng) Control 2.36 0.26 ~sub~=t~tc 3.06 0.12 EXAMPLE 12:
Effect of the present substance on the amount of PGE

in Ehrlich cancer cells and against the tumor proli-feration:
Ehrlich cancer cells were transplanted subcutaneously to groups of female C57BL/6 mouse after 9 weeks of birth at a rate of 1 X 106 and while feeding the mice, the present substance, Specimen No. 7, was intraperitoneally administered to the mice every other day from the next day of the transplantation at-a rate of 100 mg/kg. On 14th day of the transplantation, the mice were sacrificed with ether to extirpate the tumour tissue.

After homogenizing the tumour tissue finely cut by scissors with the addition of 7 ml of methanol per gram of the tumour tissue at a temperature of 0C, the homogenate was filtered with filter paper to obtain a filtrate. After adding 2 times by volume of ¦ chloroform to the filtrate, the mixture was well mixed and left ¦-for 30 min at 4C. Then, the cooled mixture was subjected to the _ame procedures as in Example 11 to determi~n-e the content of PGE in the tumour tissue. The results are shown in Table 8.
The content of PGE in the tumour tissue was larger in the animal transplanted with the cancer cells and administered with the present substance than in the control transplanted with the same cancer cells but not administered with the present substance.
This face gives an information concerning the participation of the present substance in the metabolism of PC-s.

1158;1~3 Table 8: Content of PGE in tumour tissue G Weight of tumour tissue Content of PGE in the roup (g) tumour tissue (ng/g) Control 1.30 1.77 Given the 0.75 3.98 present compound EXAMPLE 13:
Repetition of the experiment in Example 12 with ~ a slight different conditions:
Ehrlich's cancer cell were transplan-ted-subcutaneously to groups of female C57BL/6 mouse after 8 weeks of her birth and while feeding the mice, the present substance, -Specimen No. 7, -was orally administered to each mouse every day at a rate of l---g/t~g/day. On 7th or 14th day of the transplantation, the mice were sacrificed with ether to extirpated the tumour. The tumour was treated by the -same procedures as in Example 11 to determine the_content of PGE therein. The results are shown in Table 9.
The concentration of PGE in the tumour was lar-ger in the animal transplanted with the cells and administered with the present substance than in the control to which the same cells were transplanted but the present substance was ~ot a~ministered.
Further it is observed that the content of PGE decreased in both groups as the time passed, and the rate of decrease was smaller in the group transplanted and administered than in the control group transplanted but not administered. These facts give the information that the present substance participates to the metabolism of PGE.

Table 9: Content of PGE in tumour ~Date of extir- Weight of Content of PGE
Grouppation after tumour(g) in the tumour transplantation (ng/g) Control 7th day 0.09 2.59 14th day 0.84 1.16 Gi~-en the 7th day 0.08 2.80 present substance 14th day 0.67 1.65 -EXAMPLE 14: -Effect of the present substance on the--content of PGE
in the tumour of adenocarcinoma 755 and against its proliferation:
Tumour cells of Adenocarcinoma 755 were transplanted subcutaneously to groups of female C57BL/6 mouse of after 8 weeks of birth and while feeding the mice, the present substance, Specimen No. 7, was orally administered every day from the next day of transplantatlon at a rate of 1 g/kg/day. The mice were sacrificed with ether on 7th or 14th day of transplantation to extirpate the tumour. The thus extlrpated tumour was treated by the same procedures as in Example 1l -to determine the content 11~81B3 of PGE in the tumour. The results are shown in Table 10. As is seen in Table 10, the content of PGE in the tumour showed a decrease as the time passed in both groups of which one had transplantation and administration and the other had transplan-tation but no admi~istration, and the level of the content of PGE was consistenly higher in the group administered with the present compound than in the control. These facts shows the participation of the present compound in the metabolism of prostaglandins.

Table 10: Content of PGE in the tumour Date of extir- Weight of tumour Content of PGE
Group patlon after in tumour(ng/g) transplantatlon (g) ...
Control7th day 1.34 0.67 -14th day 4.01 0.34 Given the pre- 7th day 1.04 2.83 sent substance 14th day 3.10 1.15 EXAMPLE 15:
Effect of the present substance on the translocation of a dye-staff from the injected region to the transplanted tumour:

On the back of a donryu rat, a lump of Sato's lung cancer of 5 mm in size was subcutaneously transplanted.
On the axillary part of an ICR mouse, 106 cells of .

1 1 ~ 3 sarcoma 180 were subcutaneously transplanted. While feeding the both animals, the present substance, Specimen No. 7, was forcibly administered orally once at a rate of 1000 mg/kg on 16th day of the transplantation and an aqueous 2% solution of Lissamine Green (a dye-staff manufactured by Imperial Chem. Ind. Co.) was injected into the caudal vein of the animal at a rate of 1 ml for a rat and O.S ml for a mouse.
After one hour of the injection, the animal was sacri-ficed to extirpate the proliferated tumour. The tumour of the-rat was finely cut and homogenized with an aqueous sa% solution-of ethanol. After-diluting the homogenate with an addition of the solution to a total volume of 50 ml, the liquid was centri-fugated for 15 min at 1000 rpm to separate the supernatant liquid. The content of the dye-staff was de-termined on the -supernatant liquid itself or after dilution by spectrophotometry -using its absorption maximum of 630 nm. Concerning the tumour of the mouse, the tumour was cut and the presence of the dye-staff was observed with naked eyes on the cross section of the-tumQur.
The amount of the dye-staff sedimented in Sato's lung cancer per g of the cancer is~shown in Table 11.
Table 11:

Group ¦ Amount of dye-staff (~g/g tumour) Control 30.0 Given the present 51.0 substance ._S~>_ ~, , ll581~3 By visual observation, the remarkable sedimentation of the dye-staff in the central part of the tumour was recognized in the case of sarcoma 180 in the mouse administered with the present substance. The results show that the present substance will promote the attainability of an anti-cancer drug to a tumour and suggest the participation of the present substance in the metabolism of PGE.

EXAMLPLE 16:

Effect of the present substance in preventing the metastasis of a transplanted tumour:

Cells of MH-134 tumor were transpla~ted- to a C3H/He mouse from its caudal vein at a rate of 2 X 106 cells/animal.
The present substance, Specimen No. 7, was administered to the . mouse respectively, 6, 3 and one hours before, and 1, 3 and 6 hour_ after the transplantation once at a rate of 1000 mg/kg forcibly p.o.
The mouse was sacrificed on 14th day of the transplan-tation to extirpate the lungs to examine the number of the metastatic lesion. The rate of positive metastasis and the number of metatic lesion are shown in Table 12.

Table 12:

Grou Rate of positive metastasis Number of P . (%) metastatic lesion __.
Administered 6 hours before 10/10 (100%) 2.3 3 ...................... 8/9 (88.9%) - 1.. 9 1 " 7/9 (77.8%) 2.2 1 hour after 7/10 (70%) 2.6 3 " 9/10 (90%) 3.0 6 " 10/10 (100%) 3.5 Not administered 6/6 (100%) 4.5 Since the-re are several informations concerning the -pa~ticipation of PGs, particularly of PGD2 on the metastasis of a---tr-~s~lanted tumour, the above-mentioned data-are considered to suggest the inhibiting effect of the present substance against . the metastasis of an inplanted tumour via PGs.

EXAMPLE 17:
Variation of the level of PGs in che blood of the animal administered with the present substance:

Cells of sarco~a induced by me~hylcholanthrene were transplanted on the back of a group of spontaneous hypertensive rats (SHR) subcutaneously at a rate of 1 X 10 cells/animal, and while feeding the rats, the present substance, Specimen No. 7, 11581~i3 was daily administered intraperitoneally for consecutive 6 days from after 24 hours of the transplantation at a rate of 500 mg/kg/day. After 2 weeks of the ending of administration, whole blood was collected to obtain a fraction of plasma. The ether-extract of the plasma was separated by thin layer chromatography and after converting the extract into a methyloximesilyl derivative, the variation of the level 6-keto PGFl~ in the extract was examined by gas-chromatography and masspectroscopy.
The results are shown in Fig. 14.

It is seen in Fig. 14 that although, in general, the l-evel of 6-keto PGFl in the blood of rat under a cancer-bearing burden is higher than that of rat în normal sta-te in the blood, the level in cancer-bearing rat administered with the present substance was almost same as in normal rat. It-is presu,med that the-present substance has reduced the raised leve1 to the normal one.

EXAMPLE 18:
Effect of the present substance on cancer proliferation - and the amount of PGE in the cancer cells:
Following the same method as in Example 12, the anti-cancer action against transplanted Ehrlich cancer in C57BL/6 mouse, and the amount of PGE in the cancer cells in proliferation in the living body of the mouse were examined in the cases where each one compound of the present invention, Specimens Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 was intraperitoneally administered 115~163 every other day from the next day of the transplantation in total 6 times at a dosage of 100 mg/kg.
The results of determination of the weight of cancer extirpated from the sacrificed mouse on 14th day of the trans-plantation of the cancer cells, 1 X 106 in number per animal, and content of PGE of the extirpated cancer are shown in the following Table 13:

Table 13: Weight of cancer (g) and content of PGE
in cancer (ng/g) .
Compound ¦ Weight of cancer (g) -the cancer (ng/g) Controll) 1.30 1.77 Specimen No. 1 0.63 4.10 No. 2 0.81 3.88 - No. 3 0.74 4.23 No. 4 0.56 4.19 No.-5 0.70 3.20 No. 6 0.65 3.66 No. 7 0.75 3.98 ~0 No. 8 0.72 4.03 No. 9 0.80 4.32 No.10 0.70 4.14 No.ll 0.69 4.20 Notes: 1) animals transplanted, but noi administered.

2) results of Example 12 115~1~3 As is seen in the table, although there are some differences between the compounds, they are all effective in inhibiting the growth of the cancer and in raising the level of the content of PGE in the cancer cells.

EXAMPLE 19:
Effect of aspirin on the hypotensive action of the present substance:
It is known that PGs are produced from arachidonic acid and the conversion of arachidonic acid into PGG2 is mediated by cyclooxygenase. Also it is known that aspirin inactivates cyclooxygenase, and that the metabolism of PGs-is completely stopped by the administration of aspirin to a_mammal.
Accordingly, the following experiment-was carried out:
~To-groups of male SH-R rats of 30 to 40 weeks after birth, (a) one cr the present substance was forcibly administered orally at 100 mg/kg as a solution in distilled water or an aqueous suspension in 2~ solution of carboxymethylcellulose or (b) aspirin was-lorcibly administered orally, before and after one hour of the administration of the present substance, at 200 mg/kg.
The blood pressure of the thus treated rats was measured with the time passage.
The results are shown in Table 14. As is seen in Table 14, by the administration of inhibitor of the metabolism of PGs, aspirin, the hypotensive effect of the present substance (Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8), which appeared in the group (a), did not appear in the group (b). The results show that the hypotensive effect of the present substance is due to PGs.
Table 14: Hypotensive effect inhibited by aspirin Compound Alteration of blood pressure (mmHg)l) Case (a) ¦ Case (b) Control2 ) O O
Specimen No.4-20 -5 No.7 -20 ~0 No.8 -15 Notes: 1) after 6 hours of the administration of the present substance.
2) only given distilled water at~the same time .o the administration of aspirin and the present substance.

EXAMPLE 20:
Effect of the present substance on the level of PGs in the blood of spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR):
After forcibly administering the p.resent substance (Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8) every day for successive 14 days at a rate of 100 mg/kg/day by oral route to groups of male SHR rats, their whole blood was collected on 15th day to obtain the plasma fraction. The ether-extract of the plasma fraction was separated and isolated by thin-layer chromatography and after converting 115~163 the isolated fraction into methyloximesilyl derivatives, the alteration of 6-keto PGFl_a was examined by gas-chromatography and mass-spectroscopy. The results are shown in Table 15.
In the group to which the present substance was administered, the content of 6-keto PGFl a was larger together with the reduced blood pressure than in control. This parallelism of the effects leads to the presumption that the effect of the present invention is mediated by prostaglandin.

Table 15: Blood pressure and content of PGs in the blood collected after 14 days of administration of the present substance (Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and ~8) ¦Control ¦ Specimen No.4 ~No.7 ¦ No.8 , Blood pressure 195 155 160150 Content of 6-keto-PGFl a in blood 3 7 6.5 7 (ng~ml) 0 EXAMPLE 21:
Effect of the present substance on the production of PGI2 in rat suffuring from diabetes mellitus:
Groups of male Sprague-Dowley rats of body weight of about 200 g are used for the present experiments. Some groups .

115~163 of the rats were intravenously administered with streptozotocin at 80 mg/kg one to three months in advance of the beginning of the present experiment to he in a state of diabetes mellitus.
Those rats of the same strain, the same sex and the same age without being administered with streptozotocin were used as control.
The present substances (Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8) were respectively administered to the groups of rats suffering from the artificial diabetes mellitus forcibly by oral route at a rate of 100 mg/kg as an aqueous solution in distilled water.
After 6 hours of the administration of-the present ` substance, blood specimen was collected from-the--rat under anesthesia by ether in an amount of 0.5 ml/animal, and the content of-bIood sugar was-measured by the enzymatic~-method.
In the next place, the amount of prostagland:in I2 prod~ced in the a-rterial tissue was measured as-follows:
Thoracic aorta of the rat was rapidly extirpated, washed with Krebs' buffer solution at a temperature of 4C and cut into thin rings of l-to 2 mg in weight. Then, into 200 microlitres of Rrebs' buffer solution, 60 mg of the thus cut aorta were added and the mixture was incubated for 3 min at 22C.
The amount of prostaglandin I2(PGI2) produced by the cut aorta was determined on the supernatant liquid (1 to 10 microliters) of the above-mentioned incubated culture in ~he same manner as in Example 2 using the suppressing action of platelet aggregation as an index, however, using adenosine .

diphosphate as the agglutinating agent. After preparing a standard calibration curve using an authentic specimen of PGI2, the content of PGI2 of the above-mentioned supernatant liquid was obtained from the standard curve in ng/mg of wet weight of the arterial tissue. The results are shown in Table 16.

Table 16: Amounts of PGI2 and blood sugar:

PGI2 Blood sugar Group of rats (ng/mg wet tissue) (mg/100 ml) Normal rat 0.26 + 0.06 76.7 + 5.0 .
-10 Rat in artificial diabetes mellitus Not administered with the present 0.07 + 0.01 412.1 + 15.1 substance _dministered with 0.19 + 0.0~ 133.6 + 8.3 S?eclmen No.4 Administered with 0 22 + 0 02 165.0 + 11.0 Specimen No.7 . . Administered with 0.18 _ 0.04 110.1 + 5.5 `~0 Speclmen No.8 i l Although the production of PGI2 in the aortic tissue of the rat artificially brough into the state of diabetes mellitus was lower than that of the normal rat, administration of the present substance into the rat artificially brough into the state of diabetes mellitus raised the capability of the tissue in producing PGI2 together with the reduction of the level of blood sugar.

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EXAMPLE 22:
Another example showing the effect of the present substance on the production of PGI2:
After extirpating the cervical aorta of an SD rat under anesthsia, it was washed with Krebs-Linger bicarbonate buffer solution and cut into thin rings, and the cuttings were kept in the above-mentioned buffer solution at a rate of l mg of wet cuttings per 0.5 ml to produce PGI2.
Into 500 microlitres of the thus prepared mixture, 50 micro-liters of an aqueous physiological saline solution containing 2% by weight of the present substance (each of Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8) dissolved therein were added and, since the production of PGI2 generally attains to its maximum after lO min of keeping, a supernatant liquid ~(2.5 ~Q) of the mixt~re was prepared after lO min of the addition, and then the amo~-t of PGI2 in the supernatant liquid was determined by using thé action of suppression of aggregation of the platelets as an index and using-ADP as the agglutinating agent, only an aqueous physiological solution being used as control. The results are shown in Fig. 15. The addition of the present substance raised the production of PGI2 by the c~ttings of cervical aorta.
In addition, although various examinations have been carried out on the cause of arteriosclerosis, ~le agglutination of the aggregated clumps to the wall of vessels is mentioned as a cause of special importance. In other words, the preven-tion of the agglutination of the platelets onto the wall of .~

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i ilS8163 vessels is the first treatment. It has been known that PGI2 has a strong inhibitory function against the aggultination of the platelets, and from the information, it is clearly understood that the present substance which raises the producibility of PGI2 on the aortal wall has an effect of treatment and an effect of preventing of arteriosclerosis.

EXAMPLE 23:
Effect of the present substance in raising the level of PGEl in the living body of mammals:
(1) In the case of artificiaIly caused foot-oedema The three groups of male Sprague-Dowley rats of total six groups, the respective present substances, Specimens Nos.
4, 7 and 8 were administered forcibly by oral route at a rate of 1000 mg/kg, the other three groups of the same kind of rats bein administered nothing at this time.
After 60 min of the administration, 0.1 ml of an aqueous solution of carrageenin (1 mg) and PGEl (O.l~g) was injected onto the hind paw of the four groups of the rats including the three groups administered with the present substance. To one group of remaining two groups not administered with the present substance, 0.1 ml of an aqueous solution containing only carrageenin at 1~ was injected, and to the other one group not administered with the present substance, an aqueous solution containing only PG~l was injected.
The volume of the thus swollen foot of the groups of the thus treated rats was measured by the water-displacement method, and the results are shown in Table 17 by the increment of the volume of foot as compared to the volume of foot before the treatment as percentage.
(2) I the case of stimulating the skin:
To the three groups of male Sprague-Dowley rats of the total six groups, the respective present substances (Speclmens Nos. 4, 7 and 8) were forcibly administered by oral route at the rate of 1000 mg/kg, the other three groups being administered nothing at this time. After 60 min of the administration, a mixture of PGEl (2.5 X 10 ll mol/animal) and histamine (2 X 10 mol/animal) was intracutaneously injected under l-ight ether-anesthesia into the shaved skin of an abdominal part of four groups of the rats including three groups administered with--the ~resent substance. To the one group of the.two groups remaining inta-t, only histamine was injected at a rate of 2 X lO 8 mol/
animal,-and to the other group, only PGEl at a rate of 2.5 X lO ll mol/animal was injected.
Immediately after the above-mentioned injection, Evans blue as an aqueous solution in aqueous physiological saline solution was injected into a lateral tail vein of all the experimental rats in an amount of 2 ml/kg, corresponding to 25 mg of Evans blue/kg. All the animals were sacrificed after 30 min of the injection of the dye-staff, and the extent of the dye leakage was examined spectrophotometrically according to the method of Harada et al. using the absorbance at 620 nm as the index.

~ .7_ The results are shown in Table 18.

Table 17: Effect of the present substance on swelling induced by carrageenin Percentage increment of volume Groups of rats treated byof foot after 60 min of administration of carrageenin Carrageenin 37.0 PGEl 9.3 . Carrageenin + PGEl 66.2 Specimen No.4 ~ Carrageenin +PGEl 32.5 Specimen No.7 + Carrageenin +PGEl 28.2 Specimen No.8 + Carrageenin +PGEl 29.7 Table 18: Effect of the present substance on . leakage of dye-staff .
Group of rats treated by Absorbance at 620 nm ~~istamine 0.192 PGEl 0.066 Histamine + PGEl 0.259 Specimen No.4 +histamine + PGEl 0.155 S~ecimen No.7 +histamine + PGEl 0.152 Specimen No.8 + histamine + PFEl 0.162 11581~3 The results shown in Table 17 indicate that the inflammation caused by carrageenin and potentiated by PGEl was inhibited by the action of the present substance.
The results shown in Table 18 indicate that the dye-leakage due to histamine and potentiated by PGEl was inhibited.

EXAMPLE 24:
Diuretic effect of the present substance in connection to the level of 6-keto PGFl~ in blood of rats.
Groups of female spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) kept in fasting for 12 hours and abstained from water for 2 hours were treated by forced oral administration of the present substance (each of Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8) at respective rates of l and 5 g/kg dissolved in 8 ml (per 200 g b.w.) of an aqueous physiological saline solution, control group being admi~istered only with the aqueous physiological- saline solution in an amount-of 8 ml/200 g b.w.
The amount of excreted urine of the rats was measured ev~erv hour from one hour after the administration for 6 times, and the percentages of the volume of urine to the volume of the ~0 aqueous physiological saline solution containing the present substance formerly administered (8 ml per 200 g b.w.) are shown in Table 19.
In the next place, after 6 hours of the administration, all animals were sacrificed to collect the whole blood for obtaining its plasma fraction. The ether-extract of the plasma :, ,, - : ~` .

11581~3 fraction was separated by thin-layer chromatography and after converting the thus separated substances into methyloximesilyl derivatives, the variation of 6 keto PGFla was examined by gas-chromatography-mass-spectrography. The results are shown also in Table 19.
As is seen in Table 19, the amount of urine, after converting to the standard value of recovery, was larger in the rats administered with the present substance than in control, and a dosage-effect relationship is seen in the amount of urine among the rats administered with the present substance. In other -words a diuretic efect is recognized in the present substance.
In addition, the level of 6-keto PGFla in the blood of the rats administered with the present substance is a little larger than that of control although the difference is very ~, ~mall. Although it is natural that the raise of 6-keto PGFla wh-ic~ is the metabolite of PGI2 means the raise of the level of PGI2, since t*e diuretic function is recognized as one of the physiological functions of PGI2, it is presumable that the present substance exhibits its diuretic effect by regulating ~ O PGI2-- . ~

Table 19: Amount of urine and level of 6-keto PGF
in blood.

Groups ~ volume of urine (%) ¦ Level of 6-keto PGF
in blood (ng/ml) Control 2 9 22 26 28 30 _ Present substance Specimen No.4 5 g/kg 7 40 50 52 78 91 3.5

7 g/kg 6 40 46 50 60 63 3.3 Specimen No.7 5 g/kg 5 50 66 80 92 100 3.9 1 g/kg 4 38 45 48 63 72 3.5 ~S-pecimen No.8 ~' ~ g/kg 5 43 60 70 77 93 3.7 1 g/kg 5 39 47 50 65 68 1 3.2 Note: 1) The percentage of the volume of accumulated urine at the time of determination to the volume of administered aqueous physiological saline solution 20 containing the present substance.

., , ' ' EXAMPLE 25:
Effects of the present substance on the pain threshold of pain caused by repeated injection of PGE2:
Group of male Wistar rats of body weight of 230 to 250 g were injected daily for 2 weeks onto their both paws with 2 ~g of PGE2 dissolved in 0.1 ml of an aqueous sterilized 0.9~
solution of sodium chloride. On the 16th day, the present substance (each of Specimens Nos~ 4, 7 and 8) was forcibly administered orally at the rate of 1000 mg/kg.
"Pain threshold" was measured one hour after the administration of the present substance. The wo-rd "pain threshold"
means the minimum pressure applied on the paw--of the rat causing distress of the rat. The results are shown i~ Fig. 16.
As is seen in Fig. 16, the redu-ction of "pain threshold"
caus-ed by the injection of PGE2 was réstored almost to zero by the -dministration of the present substance. In other words, an analgetic effect of the present substance was found.

EXPML~LE 26:
Effect of the present substance in preventing the ~0 occurrence of stress ulcer of the stomach of rats:
Three groups of male Donryu rats of body weight of 220 to 250 g after 23.5 hours of fasting were administ2red orally with the present substance (each of Specimen Nos- 4. 7 and 8) at a rate of one gram/kg dissolved in 8 ml (per 200 g body weight) of an aqueous physiological saline solution.

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These three groups of rats and another group of rats equally fasted for 23.5 hours and then administerea with only the aqueous physiological saline solution were put into the stresscage, and soaked in water at a temperature of 23C to the depth of their breast to load the stress on the rats.
After 7 hours of soaking, the rats were pulled out from water and were immediately sacrificed to collect the whole blood, and their stomachs were extirpated. The plasma fraction pre-pared from the blood was extracted with ether and the ether-extract was separated by thin layer chromatography. The separated ext-act, after converted to the respective methyloximesilyl derivatives, was subjected to gaschromatography- mass spectoro-graphy to determine the content of 6-keto PGFI a.
An aqueous -1% solution of formaldehyde--was injected into the extirpated stomach and after 10 min of injection, the stomach was cut to be opened at the greater curvature side to examine the mucous membrane of the gastric body. The longer span of each erosion-in the mucous membrane of a rat, if any, was measured microscopically, and its sum expressed by millimeter was taken as an ulcer coefficient of the rat.
The results are shown in Table 20. As is seen in Table 20, the present substance is effective in suppressing the occurrence of stress ulcer, and the amount of 6-keto PGFla in the plasma was larger in the rats administered with the present substance than in control. Since the raise of the level of 6-keto --GCP_ ....

PGFla, which is a metabolic product of PGI2, means the raise of the level of PGI2, and PGI2 is recognized to be active in suppressing the secretion of stomach juice, and in suppressing the formation of ulcer, it is considered that the present substance exhibits an anti-ulcer function by regulating the level of PGI2.

Table 20: Stress ulcer and the level of 6-keto PGF1a C-roup Ulcer-coefficient ) Amount of )6-keto PGFla Control - 100 3.3 Present substance Specimen No.4 62 3.8 " No.7 58 3.9 " No.8 55 ' 3.6 Note: 1) Total sum of the longer spans of erosions on the mucous membrane of the stomach of the treated groups of-rat divided by that of control, multi-plied by 100.

EXAMPLE 27:

~O Effect of the present subst~nce on pyre~ia caused by a pyrogenic bacteria.
The experiments were carried out on cats weighing 3 to 3.5 kg. In an aseptic operation under intraperitoneally _ G~_ 1~ 8163 administered sodium pentobarbitone at 36 mg/kg, a Collison cannula was implanted into the rostral part of the third ventricle of the cat.
A few days after implantation of the cannula, when the cat had recovered from the operation, specimens of cerebro-spinal fluid were collected without anesthesia, whilst the cat was kept unrestrained in its cage, and its rectal temperature was recorded.
The specimens of cerebrospinal fluid (c.s.f.) were assaved immediately after collection, or after having been stored at -2 for 24 to 48 hours, and the determinat-ion of P OE in the specimens was carried out as in Example 9 using- 3~-Prostaglandin E Radioimmunoassay Kit (manufactured by Clinical Assay Co., USA).
Rectal temperature was recorded at room temperature (21 to 23C) -with the thermistor probe inserted about 10 cm deep into the rect~.
As the pyrogen, somatic type o-antigen of Shigella dysentriae was used, and after dissolving 75 ng of the pyxogen in ~ 0.15 ml of a pyrogen--free artificial c.s.f., the solution ~o was injected into the third ventricle through the implanted cannula to induce fever.
After 2 hours of administration, the rectal temperature was rueasured to confirm the occurre~ce of pyïGxia and then the present substance (each of Specimens Nos. 4, 7 and 8) was forcibly administered orally as an a~ueous solution in distilled water at a rate of 100 mg/kg, control being administered only - ....

115~163 with distilled water in this time.
The rectal temperature of all animals was measured after one hour of the administration of the present substance.
The c.s.f. for the determination of its content of PGE was collected respectively before and after 2 hours of the injection of the pyrogen and after one hour of the administration of the present substance.
The results are shown in Table 21.

Table 21: Rectal temperature and amount of PGE
in c.s.f.

jRectal IAmount of PGE
Group 'temperature I (ng/ml of ~ (C) I c.s.f.) .....
Control before admin. pyrogen 39.0 1 2.5 2 hours after admin. pyrogen 41.0 1 12 1 hour after admin. water* 40.7 1 10 Administered with the present substance Spec~en No.4 ~
before admin. pyrogen , 39.0- 1 2.6 2 hours after admin. pyrogen 4I.3 ¦ 11 1 hour after admin. Specimen 39.-9 1 5 Specimen No.7 . ¦
before admin. pyrogen -38.8 - I 2.4 2 hours after admin. pyrogen 41.1 1 16 1 hour after admin. Specimen 39.5 1 6 Spec~men No.8 - , ¦
before admin. pyrogen , 39.1 2.5 ~ 2 hours after admin. pyrogen ' 41.5 13 1 hour after admin. Specimen 40.0 Note: * Distilled water As is seen in Table 21, the rectal temperature of the cat once raised by the injection of the pyrogen was reduced together with the same tendency of variation of the content of PGE in c.s.f. by the administration of the present substance.
Accordingly, it is considered that the present substance when orally administered to mammal which had a symptom of pyrexia due to the inoculation of a microbial pyrogen exhiblts an antipyretic activity presumably in connection to the reduction of PGE in c.s.f.

Claims (5)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A pharmaceutical composition having an activity of regulating production or metabolism of prostaglandins in a mammal in dosage unit form, which comprises a dosage effective to produce said activity of a compound of the formula wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of the residual groups formed by removing OH at 1 (alpha)-or 1 (beta) position from arabinose, xylose, rhamnose, glucose, galactose, mannose and fructose, and R2 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl of one to four carbon atoms, or a pharmaceutically acceptable metal;
providing that R1 does not present arabinose, xylose, glucose, galactose, rhamnose and mannose, when R1-NH
group bonds at ortho-position of benzene ring and R2 is hydrogen, methyl or a pharmaceutically acceptable metal selected from Na, K, 1/2Ca, 1/2Mg and 1/3Al, or when R1-NH group bonds at para-position of benzene ring and R2 is hydrogen or a pharmaceutically acceptable metal selected from Na, K, 1/2Ca, 1/2Mg or 1/3Al; and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or a diluent therefor.

2. A composition according to claim 1, wherein said compound is m-aminobenzoic acid-N-D-mannoside.

3. A composition according to claim 1, wherein said compound is sodium m-aminobenzoate-N-D-mannoside.

4. A composition according to claim 1, wherein said compound is p-aminobenzoic acid-N-D-fructoside.

5. A composition according to claim 1, wherein said compound is sodium p-aminobenzoate-N-D-fructoside.