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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a novel agent for treating articular disorders, more particularly, to the agent which comprises an amino sugar and trehalose as effective ingredients.
• articular disorders infections, injuries, allergies, metabolic disorders, diverences, and blood circulation disorders. It has been pointed out that the crisis rate of articular disorders increases as aging, and articular disorders are becoming to be a social problem in this aging society.
• articular disorders As articular disorders generally accompany inflammations, they are treated with anti-inflammatories in many cases. However, treatments thereof can be only effective for temporarily suppressing some symptoms accompanied by articular disorders such as pains and swellings. There is nothing but the action of recovery by living bodies to intrinsically cure the disorders.
• Japanese Patent No. 2,971,579 discloses a composition comprising an effective amount of an amino sugar or a salt thereof, and a glycosaminoglycan or a salt thereof for treating damaged connective tissues and arthritis or for keeping treated conditions.
• the composition promotes the recovery action of living bodies on damaged connective tissues through the functions of amino sugars and glycosaminoglycans. It may be as a proposal to solve the problem of current treatments with anti-inflammatories.
• the establishment of more effective agents for treating articular disorders which use the above functions of amino sugars and glycosaminoglycans, has been desired to solve the problem of articular disorders becoming to be a social problem.
• amino sugars and glycosaminoglycans may give some people a strange taste and flavor when taken orally, and therefore, it has been greatly expected that agents for treating articular disorders should be improved in their taste and flavor although it contains amino sugars and glycosaminoglycans.
• the object of the present invention is to provide an agent for treating articular disorders, which exerts an effect of recovery action on articular disorders at a level exceeding the effect of amino sugars and glycosaminoglycans alone and has a satisfactory taste and flavor when taken orally.
• the present inventors widely screened a variety of saccharides, which had been reported as useful and functional materials for foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, etc., by using a model system with experimental animals to judge whether they enhance or not the recovery promoting action of amino sugars and glycosaminoglycans on articular disorders.
• trehalose a non-reducing disaccharide composed of glucoses
• the administration of trehalose in combination with the amino sugars reduces the amount of amino sugars and imparts a satisfactory taste and flavor when taken orally.
• the present invention was made based on the self-finding of the present inventors.
• the present invention solves the above object by providing an agent for treating articular disorders, which comprises an amino sugar and trehalose as effective ingredients.
• the present invention relates to an agent for treating articular disorders, which comprises an amino sugar and trehalose as effective ingredients.
• the agent of the present invention has activities of preventing, improving, alleviating, and curing disorders or diseases of articulations of living bodies such as mammals including humans (hereinafter, may be simply called “activities of treating articular disorders”).
• the agent of the present invention is characterized by the fact that it exerts the above activities of treating articular disorders at a remarkably enhanced level than in the sole use of amino sugars. The character can be confirmed by animal experiments described in detail in the later-described experiments.
• amino sugars as referred to as in the present invention means a compound(s) having a structure where hydroxyl group in saccharides are substituted with amino groups, or its derivative or salt.
• the amino sugars used in the present invention are not restricted to specific ones in terms of their chemical structures, purities, properties, and production methods, as long as they effectively solve the object of the present invention when applied to mammals including humans in a composition form combined with trehalose as described later.
• amino sugars which are relatively preferably used in practicing the present invention, are those which exist in nature in a free form or as components of polysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids, etc; as well as glucosamine, mannosamine, neuraminic acid, galactosamine, and their derivatives.
• acylated derivatives such as N-acetylated derivatives, sulfated derivatives such as N-sulfated derivatives and O-sulfated derivatives, and glycolylated derivatives such as N-glycolylated derivatives of amino sugars.
• amino sugars and derivatives thereof glucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, mannosamine, and N-acetylmannosamine have inherently a relatively-high activity of treating articular disorders and are advantageously used in practicing the present invention.
• the amino sugars used in the present invention can be prepared by collecting polysaccharides, glycoproteins, etc., having the amino sugars as components from mammals, fishes, mollusks, arthropods, fungi, bacteria etc., by conventional methods; hydrolyzing them under acidic conditions or with appropriate enzymes; subjecting the resultant mixtures to conventional methods for separating and purifying saccharides such as chromatography.
• NATURAL GLUCOSAMINETM a product name of glucosamine
• MARINE SWEETTM a product name of N-acetylglucosamine
• trehalose as referred to as in the present invention means a disaccharide which two molecules of glucose are linked together at their reducing groups in the ⁇ , ⁇ -linkage.
• Trehalose used in the present invention is not restricted to its specific purity, property, and preparation method as long as trehalose compositions with amino sugars can exert an effect to solve the object of the present invention, when used in a composition form with amino sugars and applied to humans by the methods described below.
• Trehalose can be prepared by different methods: For example, with an economical view point, methods where a non-reducing saccharide-forming enzyme and a trehalose-releasing enzyme are allowed to act on partial starch hydrolyzates, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Kokai Nos. 143,876/95, 213,283/95, 322,883/95, 298,880/95, 66,187/96, 66,188/96, 336,388/96, and 84,586/96 can be preferably used. According to the above methods, trehalose can be obtained in a higher yield from starches, a low-cost material.
• Trehalose can be prepared by subjecting maltose to the action, for example, of a maltose/trehalose converting enzyme as disclosed in any one of Japanese Patent Kokai Nos. 170,977/95, 263/96, and 149,980/96 or a conventional maltose phosphorylase and a trehalose phosphorylase in combination.
• anhydrous trehalose can be prepared, for example, by drying the above crystalline hydrous trehalose at a temperature of 70 to 160° C. under a normal or reduced pressure, preferably, at a temperature of 80 to 100° C. under a reduced pressure; or placing in a crystallizer a relatively-high trehalose content solution with a moisture content of less than 10%, stirring the solution in the presence of a seed crystal at a temperature of 50 to 160° C., preferably, 80 to 140° C., to prepare a massecuite containing crystalline anhydrous trehalose, crystallizing trehalose from the massecuite, and pulverizing the resulting crystals by a method of block pulverization, fluidied-bed granulation, spray drying, etc., under a relatively-high temperature and a drying condition.
• Trehalose obtained by the above methods can be advantageously used in the present invention.
• the proportion of trehalose and an amino sugar(s) in the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention is not restricted to a specific ratio as long as the agent exerts an effect of solving the object of the present invention.
• trehalose in a weight ratio of at least one forth to the amino sugar(s) on a dry solid basis (d.s.b.).
• d.s.b.” as referred to as in the present invention means the weight of a material after evaporating water, contained as the free and bound water, from the material.
• the agent for treating articular disorders should more preferably contain trehalose as much as possible when used orally.
• the agent for treating articular disorders should preferably contain trehalose, usually, in a weight ratio of at most 50-folds, desirably, 20-folds to an amino sugar(s), d.s.b.
• Amino sugars in general have the defect in their expensiveness in comparison with other food materials such as saccharides for personal daily use.
• the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention has the advantage that it exerts the desired activity and is provided at a lower cost than a composition comprising an amino sugar(s) without trehalose.
• glycosaminoglycans as referred to as in the present invention means acid polysaccharides containing amino sugars as a structure unit, and their salts, independently of the chemical structures of other structure units other than amino sugars, and the molecular weight and purity of glycosaminoglycans.
• glycosaminoglycans which are relatively preferably used in practicing the present invention, are those which are found in nature or their partial hydrolyzates: Chondroitin sulfates such as chondroitin 4-sulfate; chondroitin; keratan sulfate; hyaluronic acid; dermatan sulfate; heparin; and heparan sulfate.
• Chondroitin sulfates such as chondroitin 4-sulfate; chondroitin; keratan sulfate; hyaluronic acid; dermatan sulfate; heparin; and heparan sulfate.
• the glycosaminoglycans used in the present invention can be prepared from mammalians, fishes, mollusks, arthropods, fungi, bacteria, etc., by conventional purification methods for acidic polysaccharides.
• glycosaminoglycans for foods, cosmetics, etc., for example, “MUCOTEIN-DKTM”, chondroitin sulfate is a food grade, commercialized by Yaizu Suisankagaku Industry Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan, can be arbitrarily used.
• amino sugars having unmodified amino groups, have a relatively high reactivity, they are susceptible to deteriorate such as coloration. Therefore, the agent for treating articular disorders may result in a problem of lacking preservation stability depending on the kinds of amino sugars used.
• Such a problem can be solved by using salts of the amino sugars which are formed by reacting with acid substances.
• the agent for treating articular disorders is in the form of a liquid, the above problem can be solved by adding acid substances to the agent.
• the acid substances used in the present invention include any physiologically acceptable substances which are generally used in the fields such as food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical fields where the agent is applicable to; inorganic acids such as hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, carbonic acid, and phosphoric acid; and organic acids such as acetic acid, adipic acid, citric acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, lactic acid, fumaric acid, malic acid, L-ascorbic acid, and glycosyl L-ascorbic acid.
• inorganic acids such as hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, carbonic acid, and phosphoric acid
• organic acids such as acetic acid, adipic acid, citric acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, lactic acid, fumaric acid, malic acid, L-ascorbic acid, and glycosyl L-ascorbic acid.
• glycosyl L-ascorbic acids such as 2-O- ⁇ -D-glucopyranosyl L-ascorbic acid (“AA-2G®”, a food or cosmetic grade glycosyl L-ascorbic acid commercialized by Hayashibara Shoji Inc., Okayama, Japan) and acylated derivatives of glycosyl L-ascorbic acid have an improved stability in comparison with L-ascorbic acid and exert functions as vitamin C in living bodies. Therefore, the addition of L-ascorbic acid to the agent of the present invention is particularly useful in practicing the present invention, as they stabilize and impart the functions of vitamin C to the agent.
• A-2G® 2-O- ⁇ -D-glucopyranosyl L-ascorbic acid
• acylated derivatives of glycosyl L-ascorbic acid have an improved stability in comparison with L-ascorbic acid and exert functions as vitamin C in living bodies. Therefore, the addition of L-ascorbic acid to the agent of the present invention is particularly useful in
• the following other ingredients can be also advantageously incorporated into the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention; emulsifiers, fillers, pH-controlling agents, sweeteners, flavors, spices, colorings, vitamins, amino acids, etc. These ingredients can be freely used as long as they do not affect the desired actions of the agent. Any ingredients used as additives in the fields of conventional agents for treating articular disorders, particularly, in the fields of foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, etc., can be arbitrarily used in the present invention.
• the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention comprising the above ingredients is not specially restricted to a specific form and can be provided in any forms of solids, semisolids, liquids, and mixtures thereof such as powders, granules, tablets, gels, pastes, milky lotions, and solutions.
• the amount of amino sugars preferably incorporated into the agent of the present invention is usually 0.01 to 80%, desirably, 0.05 to 60%, and more desirably, 0.1 to 40%, d.s.b.
• Examples of symptoms or diseases, where the agent of the present invention can exert the activity of treating articular disorders include arthritis caused by infections, injuries, allergies, metabolic disorders, etc., rheumatoids such as chronic rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus; articular disorders accompanied by gout, arthropathy such as osteoarthritis, internal derangement, hydrarthrosis, stiff neck, lumbago, etc. Varying the effects depending on the use of the agent or the types of diseases to be treated, the agent can exert desired prophylactic and alleviative effects, or even therapeutic effects on swelling, pain, inflammation, and destroying of articulations without seriously affecting living bodies.
• the agent for treating articular disorder can be used to prevent the onset of articulation disorders, as well as to improve, alleviate, and cure the symptoms after their onsets.
• the application routes or the administration routes can be appropriately selected from an oral intake, percutaneous absorption, and other physiologically acceptable routes depending on the symptoms to be treated.
• Varying the effective dose of the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention depending on its composition, application route, and symptoms of targeted diseases the dose of the amino sugars is usually 100 mg (d.s.b.) or less, desirably, 15 mg or less, more desirably, 10 mg or less, particularly 5 mg or less, per kg body weight per day when orally taken.
• the lower limit of the dose is not specifically restricted as long as the desired effects are obtained depending on the administration routes, for example, it is usually 0.01 mg or more, and desirably, 0.1 mg, d.s.b., or more per kg body weight per day when taken orally.
• the agent for treating articular disorders comprising trehalose and an amino sugar(s) can be taken at one or two to five times a day every day or at appropriate intervals, depending on the symptoms at a dose selected form the above range.
• the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention is advantageously used as a health food, hospital diet, beverage, and skin external agent for preventing, alleviating or curing articulation disorders. Further, the agent is also useful as a coadjuvant for reinforcing pharmaceutical effects of therapeutic or prophylactic medicines for treating articular disorders. Furthermore, the agent can be also used as an ingredient to impart the activity of treating articular disorders to general foods, health foods, cosmetics, etc.
• the agent for treating articular disorders can be incorporated into the following foods: Frozen desserts such as an ice cream, ice candy, and sherbet; syrups such as a “korimitsu” (a sugar syrup for shaved ice); spreads and pastes such as a butter cream, custard cream, flour paste, peanut paste, and fruit paste; Western confectioneries such as a chocolate, jelly, candy, gummy jelly, caramel, chewing gum, pudding, cream puff, and sponge cake; processed fruits and vegetables such as a jam, marmalade, “syrup-zuke” (a fruit pickle), and “toka” (conserves); Japanese confectioneries such as a “manju” (a bun with a bean-jam), “uiro” (a sweet rice jelly), “an” (a bean jam), “yokan” (a sweet jelly of beans), “mizu-yokan” (a soft adzuki-bean jelly), pao de Castella, and “amedam
• the agent for treating articular disorders can be incorporated into the following beverages: Alcoholic beverages such as a synthetic sake, fermented liquor, fruit wine, and Western liquors; and soft drinks such as a juice, mineral beverage, carbonated beverage, sour milk beverage, beverage containing lactic acid bacteria, sport drink, supplemental drink, tea, black tea, oolong tea, coffee, and cocoa.
• Alcoholic beverages such as a synthetic sake, fermented liquor, fruit wine, and Western liquors
• soft drinks such as a juice, mineral beverage, carbonated beverage, sour milk beverage, beverage containing lactic acid bacteria, sport drink, supplemental drink, tea, black tea, oolong tea, coffee, and cocoa.
• the agent for treating articular disorders can be incorporated into cosmetics in the form of a lotion, solution, milky lotion, powder, cream, paste, bath agent, and pack agent.
• the agent for treating articular disorders can be incorporated into pharmaceuticals in the form of a powder, liquid, syrup, tablet, capsule, oint
• a suitable amount of the amino sugar(s) in a composition such as foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals comprising either the above agent for treating articular disorders or the effective ingredient of the agent is usually 0.00001 to 20%, desirably, 0.0001 to 10%, more desirably, 0.001 to 2%, d.s.b.
• the day number means a day counted from the starting day of administration.
• 800 ⁇ g/head of a type II collagen from bovine in a reagent grade along with Freund's incomplete adjuvant was administered to the dorsal subcutaneous; and on day 10, a fresh preparation of the same collagen and adjuvant as used above were administered at a dose of about ⁇ fraction (1/10) ⁇ of that of on day 3.
• Test compounds were administered to the rats daily until day 24.
• the effect of glucosamine or N-acetylglucosamine with trehalose was judged as high (symbol “+”) even with the tested minimum amount of 5 mg/kg body weight/day.
• TPA 12-O-tetradecanoilphorbo113-acetate
• mice Six hours after the TPA application, the mice were measured for earlap thickness similarly as the measurement before the TPA application. Swelling rates of earlap thickness of rats in each group were calculated based on the data of the earlap thickness between the earlap thickness of just before and six hours after the TPA application in each mouse, and averaged for an index of the degree of generating auricular edema.
• the product Since the product remarkably exerts an action for treating articular disorders and has a mild sweetness, it is useful as a health food to prevent or alleviate articular disorder such as arthritis and rheumatoid.
• the product can be used as a health food in the form of a tablet produced by a conventional tableting method, and it can be also used in foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as an additive for imparting or supplementing the action of treating articular disorders.
• the product Since the product remarkably exerts an action on articular disorders and has mild sweetness, it is useful to prevent or alleviate articular disorder such as arthritis and rheumatoid as a health food.
• the product can be used as a health food in the form of a tablet produced by a conventional tableting method, and it can be also used in foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as an additive for imparting or supplementing the action for articular disorders.
• the product Since the product remarkably exerts the action for treating articular disorders and has mild sweetness, it is useful to prevent or alleviate articular disorder such as arthritis and rheumatoid as a health food.
• the product can be used as a health food in the form of a tablet produced by a conventional tableting method, and it can be also used in foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as an additive for imparting or supplementing the action for articular disorders.
• the product can be used by attaching to the skin similarly as in conventional hot cataplasms, it can be used as a cataplasm to prevent or cure articulation disorders in various fields of pharmaceuticals, etc.
• the product has the action of treating articular disorders, it can be used as a health food or supplement to prevent or alleviate articular disorders.
• Two parts by weight of unformed tablet composition prepared by the method in Example 3 and contained one part by weight of N-acetylglucosamine (“MARINE SWEETTM”, commercialized by Yaizu Suisankagaku Industry Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan), one part by weight of crystalline hydrous trehalose (“TREHA®”, commercialized by Hayashibara Shoji Inc., Okayama, Japan), and a small amount of maltitol and sugarester were mixed with six parts by weight of glucose and two parts by weight of a gumbase, heated and dissolved until softened, further mixed with appropriate amount of a mint flavor, and kneaded with a roll in a conventional manner. The resultant was shaped into a chewing gum.
• MARINE SWEETTM commercialized by Yaizu Suisankagaku Industry Co., Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan
• TREHA® crystalline hydrous trehalose
• maltitol and sugarester were mixed with six parts by weight of glucose and two parts by
• the product has a mild sweetness, refresh flavor, and satisfactory texture. Since the product has the action of treating articular disorders, it can be used as a health food or supplement for preventing or alleviating articular disorders.
• the product When taking a bath, the product is used by dissolving about 20 g thereof in 100 L of hot bath-water.
• the product can moderately alleviate pain of articulation and stiff back due to its action for treating articular disorders.
• the present invention was made based on a complete self-finding by the present inventors, which trehalose remarkably enhances the action of treating articular disorders by amino sugars.
• the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention has more effect of completely recovering health from articular disorders than that attained by amino sugars alone. Also it can be used daily because the effective ingredients used in the agent are those found in nature. Therefore, the agent can prevent, alleviate or treat articular disorders such as arthritis, rheumatoids and arthropathy.
• the agent for treating articular disorders of the present invention can be advantageously used in foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as a material because it has a satisfactory taste and has no problem in stimulating skins.
• the present invention having these outstanding effects and functions, is a significant invention that greatly contributes to this art.

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