PHARMACEUTICAL USE OF TERPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE

摘要

A terpyridine derivative represented by general formula (I) (wherein R represents hydrogen, (un)substituted phenyl, pyridyl, etc.), which has the effect of promoting the production of nerve growth factors or a neurotrophic factor activity. Hence it can be used as an ameliorant or remedy for the symptoms and diseases accompanying peripheral nerve degeneration which is idiopathic or caused by trauma, chemicals such as alcohol or anticancer drug, inflammation, or metabolism as observed in, for example, diabetes. In addition, it can be used as an ameliorant or remedy for the symptoms and diseases accompanying central nerve degeneration, such as senile dementia of Alzheimer type, cerebrovascular dementia, Down's syndrome, Parkinson's disease or Hantington's chorea, mental and motor function incompetences caused by cerebral ischemia, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage or head injury, spinal neuroparalysis, and so forth.