DRUGS FOR INCREASING LACRIMAL FLUID

摘要

It is intended to provide vasopressin receptor agonists having an effect of increasing lacrimal fluid. Drugs for increasing lacrimal fluid which contain as the active ingredient a compound having vasopressin receptor agonism (for example, [Phe<2>, Ile<3>, Orn<8>]vasopressin) are useful as medicinal compositions relieving diseases or conditions caused by a decrease in lacrimal fluid, for example, remedies and/or preventives for dry eye syndrome, remedies and/or preventives for Sjoegren's syndrome, remedies and/or preventives for Stevens Johnson syndrome, remedies and/or preventives for pemphigoid, remedies for alkali wound, remedies and/or preventives for keratoconjunctivitis sicca and remedies and/or preventives for keratoconjunctival epithelial disorder.