摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a safe medicine for treating nonalcoholic hepatic diseases, containing a substance universally present in a cell of a living body, or a physiologically active substance metabolizable to the substance as an active ingredient, hardly causing side effects, and enabling long-term administration. <P>SOLUTION: The medicine for treating the nonalcoholic hepatic diseases contains at least one of pyruvic acid, a pyruvic acid ester, a pyruvic acid amide and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient for treating the hepatic diseases selected from nonalcoholic fatty liver and steatohepatitis. The medicine for treating the nonalcoholic hepatic diseases may contain an antioxidant. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |