Method for treatment of diabetes

• US 4,073,910 A
• Filed: 11/26/1975
• Issued: 02/14/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eisai Company Limited (Eisai Medical Research Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Eisai Company Limited (Eisai Medical Research Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kawashima, Hidetoshi, Fujimori, Toru, Tajima, Tetsuya, Ohkawa, Isao, Ohtake, Shinzaburo
• Primary Examiner(s): Waddell, Frederick E.
• Application Number:
  US05/635,448
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 424/266
• US Class Current: 514/337
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/455 Nicotinic acids, e.g. niacin; Derivatives thereof, e.g. esters, amides

Abstract

Therapeutical treatment of diabetes by oral or parenteral administration of Vitamine E nicotinate which exhibits remarkable effects for treatment of diabetes without accompanying injurious side effect.

Claims

1. A method for treatment of diabetes comprising administering, a therapeutically effective amount of Vitamine E nicotinate to a human suffering from diabetes.

2. The method according to claim 1 which comprises administering a daily dose of from 50 to 1200 mg of Vitamine E nicotinate.

3. The method according to claim 1 which conmprises orally administering a therapeutically effective amount of Vitamine E nicotinate.

4. The method according to claim 1 which comprises administering by injection a therapeutically effective amount of Vitamine E nicotinate.

5. The method according to claim 1 which comprises orally administering a daily dose of from 50 to 1200 mg of Vitamine E nicotinate.

6. The method according to claim 1 which comprises administering by injection a daily dose of from 50 to 1200 mg of Vitamine E nicotinate.