AGENT FOR PREVENTING AND IMPROVING OSTEOARTHROPATHY

• Main Authors: AOE SEIICHIRO, TAKADA YUKIHIRO, YANAGIDAIRA SHUICHI, MATSUBARA NORIYOSHI, KAWAKAMI HIROSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.06.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an agent for preventing and improving osteoarthropathy such as osteoporosis, fracture, lumbago and rheumatism, and to provide a drink, food or feed to which an effect for preventing and improving the osteoarthropathy is imparted. SOLUTION: This agent for preventing or improving the osteoarthropathy, containing a sphingosine skeleton-having compound such as ceramide, sphingomyelin, a sphingoglycolipid or ganglioside as an active ingredient, or containing the sphingosine skeleton-having compound and further suitably one or more substances selected from calcium agents, vitamin D and vitamin K.