the extract from inflamed tissues as an inhibitor of nitric oxide production

摘要

An object of the present invention is to offer a pharmaceutical composition containing an extract from inflammatory tissue inoculated with vaccinia virus having a suppressing action to death of cells and an excessive production of nitrogen monoxide induced by endotoxin and an improving action to hypotension induced by endotoxin. The present invention is a novel pharmaceutical composition containing an extract from inflammatory tissue inoculated with vaccinia virus such as a nitrogen monoxide production suppressor, a therapeutic agent for sepsis, an antiendotoxinic agent and a therapeutic agent for endotoxin shock. In sepsis and other serious bacterial infectious diseases, endotoxin (an intracellular toxin) is produced and a shock symptom is induced by its action. Accordingly, the substance of the present invention having an excellent inhibitory action to the endotoxin-induced toxicity as mentioned above is quite useful for the treatment or the prevention of endotoxin-induced shock symptom, sepsis and various symptoms accompanied thereby. In addition, the substance of the present invention has an inhibitory action to abnormal nitrogen monoxide production during the diseased state and, therefore, it is also useful as a therapeutic and preventive agent to the diseases wherein an excessive nitrogen monoxide production is participated such as acute hypotension.