Ammonia metabolism promoter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11291649-B2
Application number	US-201816619701-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 18, 2018
Priority date	Jun 7, 2017
Publication date	Apr 5, 2022
Grant date	Apr 5, 2022

Abstract

A material which has excellent ammonia metabolism improving effect and is effective for endurance enhancement, anti-fatigue or the like is provided. An ammonia metabolism promoting agent, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. An endurance enhancing agent, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. An anti-fatigue agent, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. An agent for suppressing a reduction in blood glucose level by exercise, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. An agent for promoting recovery from reduced blood glucose level by exercise, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. An agent for suppressing a reduction in muscle glycogen by exercise, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. A muscle endurance enhancing agent, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients. An agent for preventing or ameliorating hyperammonemia, hepatic encephalopathy or chronic fatigue syndrome, comprising catechins and ornithine as active ingredients.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for enhancing endurance, comprising administering effective amounts of catechins and ornithine to a subject in need thereof.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the endurance is muscle endurance.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the catechins to ornithine mass ratio is from 1:0.1 to 1:10.

Assignees

• Kao Corp

Inventors

• Hasumura Takahiro
• Chen Shu
• Ota Noriyasu
• Minegishi Yoshihiko
• Otsuka Atsuko
• Kobayashi Akemi

Classifications

• A23L33/105 Primary

  Plant extracts, their artificial duplicates or their derivatives · CPC title

• A61P3/00

  Drugs for disorders of the metabolism (of the blood or the extracellular fluid A61P7/00) · CPC title

• A23V2002/00

  Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs · CPC title

• A61K31/353 Primary

  3,4-Dihydrobenzopyrans, e.g. chroman, catechin · CPC title

• A61K31/198

  Alpha-amino acids, e.g. alanine or edetic acid [EDTA] (betaine A61K31/205; proline A61K31/401; tryptophan A61K31/405; histidine A61K31/4172; peptides not degraded to individual amino acids A61K38/00) · CPC title