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<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pharmaceutical composition which contains a compound that is effective in lowering blood sugar and in protecting β cells or pancreas, or its pharmaceutically allowable salt, and which has excellent therapeutic and/or immunizing effects for Type I diabetes, Type II diabetes, etc. that may cause a rise in blood sugar due to saccharometabolism abnormality. <P>SOLUTION: A pharmaceutical composition contains compounds expressed by general formula (I) or its pharmaceutically allowable salt. (In the formula, R<SP POS="POST">1</SP>is a hydroxy 1-6C alkyl group or a hydroxy 3-6C cycloalkyl group that may be substituted by one to three substituents selected from the substituent group α; the substituent group α is a group consisting of a hydroxy group and a carbamoyl group; R<SP POS="POST">2</SP>is a methyl or ethyl group; R<SP POS="POST">3</SP>is 1-6C alkyl group or a 3-6C cycloalkyl group that may be substituted by one to three halogen atoms, and R<SP POS="POST">4</SP>is a halogen atom). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |