DRUG FOR RETINAL DEGENERATIVE DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide a medicine that can simply treat and/or prevent a retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration, including retinitis pigmentosa. The solution is to provide an agent for treating and/or preventing a retinal degenerative disease associated with photoreceptor degeneration, containing a compound having a retinoic acid receptor agonistic activity (for example, tamibarotene, tamibarotene methyl ester, tamibarotene ethyl ester, tazarotene, tazarotenic acid, adapalene, palovarotene, retinol, isotretinoin, alitretinoin, etretinate, acitretin or bexarotene) or a salt thereof.