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  Method for flavor coating drinking strawUSPTO Application #: 20060193951Title: Method for flavor coating drinking straw Abstract: Methods and coating compositions are provided for producing an acid coated drinking straw or confectionery article. The method includes heating a food grade acid composition to a temperature sufficient for the acid composition to become fluid; applying the fluid acid to a surface of a drinking straw or confectionery substrate; and then cooling the acid coated drinking straw or acid coated confectionery substrate to a temperature sufficient to immobilize the acid composition on the surface. The food grade acid composition can comprise, for example, about 40 to 100 weight percent food grade acid (such as citric acid, phosphoric acid, malic acid, or a mixture thereof), 0 to about 5 weight percent surface tension reducing agent, 0 to about 30 weight percent plasticizer, 0 to about 20 weight percent bulk agent, and 0 to about 30 weight percent water. (end of abstract)
Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP - Atlanta, GA, US Inventors: You Lung Chen, Shengying Zhou, Sevugan Palaniappan USPTO Applicaton #: 20060193951 - Class: 426085000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Food Or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, And Products, Product With Drinking Tube The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060193951. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] The present application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/772,587, filed Feb. 6, 2004, which is a continuation-in-part of PCT/JP02/07764, filed Jul. 30, 2002, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention relates to a side effect-relieving agent and/or a hypoglycemic effect enhancer for thiazolidine compounds. More particularly, the present invention relates to a side effect-relieving agent for thiazolidine compounds which comprises a crude drug mixture as an active ingredient comprising Ephedrae Herba, Glycyrrhizae Radix and Gypsum Fibrosum each of which is in a form of ground powders, extracts or mixtures of powders and extracts; and a hypoglycemic effect enhancer for thiazolidine compounds which comprises a crude drug mixture as an active ingredient comprising Ephedrae Herba, Glycyrrhizae Radix and Gypsum Fibrosum each of which is in a form of ground powders, extracts or mixtures of powders and extracts. BACKGROUND ART [0003] Currently, there are about 7 million diabetics in Japan, and the total of the current and potential diabetics is estimated to number approximately 14 million. Most of them are type 2 diabetics who manifest and develop their symptoms on the basis of insulin resistance attributable to their lifestyles such as overeating and insufficient physical exercise as well as to their genetic predisposition. [0004] Insulin resistance which is a feature of type 2 diabetics is frequently accompanied with obesity, especially that caused by the accumulation of-visceral fat, and in many cases it is accompanied with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and the like at the same time. [0005] To cope with this situation, various drugs for oral administration have been developed. For example, sulfonylurea drugs which stimulate the secretion of insulin by acting on pancreatic .beta.-cells, biguanide drugs which suppress glycogenesis in the liver, drugs which suppress the absorption of glucose from the intestine by inhibiting the intestinal tract digestive enzyme disaccharidases, or thiazolidine compounds which lower the blood glucose levels by directly improving insulin resistance have been known. These drugs have been widely used in clinical settings. [0006] Thiazolidine compounds, ligands of the intranuclear receptor PPAR (a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor) .gamma., have attracted attention as novel therapeutic agents for diabetes which have been developed recently, and the thiazolidine compounds lower the blood glucose levels by improving insulin resistance and some effects have been clinically observed (Nippon Rinsho, vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 688-694, 1999). [0007] Although the thiazolidine compounds are remarkably effective, body weight gain and body fat gain have often been observed by long-term administration in effective cases, accompanied by a problem that hypoglycemic effect of the thiazolidine compounds was reduced (J. Japan Diab. Soc., vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 323-327, 2001). [0008] To approach this problem, drugs which suppress body weight gain induced by thiazolidine compounds are also known. For example, WO93/3724 discloses that 3-guanidinopropionic acid (3-GPA) suppresses body weight gain induced by pioglitazone in a dose-dependent manner in KKA.sup.y mice, obese diabetic animals. In addition, voglibose, an inhibitor of disaccharidase, is known to control body weight gain induced by pioglitazone in Wistar fatty rats, obese diabetic animals (Yakuri to Chiryo, vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 355-361, 1997). [0009] However, the duration of administration of the above-mentioned drug and pioglitazone in combination was only 2 weeks in both studies, and it has not been elucidated whether the above-mentioned drugs control body weight gain induced by pioglitazone and prevent the reduction of hypoglycemic effects. [0010] At the same time, no side effect-relieving agents and/or hypoglycemic effect enhancers for thiazolidine compounds comprising crude drugs as an active ingredient have been known. [0011] Therefore, the present inventors made various studies for the purpose of finding a drug which is capable of relieving side effects of thiazolidine compounds, i.e. body weight gain, and enhancing the hypoglycemic effect of thiazolidine compounds. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION [0012] As a result of various studies, the present inventors found that a crude drug mixture comprising Ephedrae Herba, Glycyrrhizae Radix and Gypsum Fibrosum each of which is in a form of ground powders, extracts or mixtures of powders and extracts is capable of relieving the side effects of thiazolidine compounds, i.e., body weight gain, and enhancing the hypoglycemic effect of thiazolidine compounds, and they accomplished the present invention. [0013] That is, the present invention is a side effect-relieving agent for thiazolidine compounds which comprises a crude drug mixture as an active ingredient comprising Ephedrae Herba, Glycyrrhizae Radix and Gypsum Fibrosum each of which is in a form of ground powders, extracts or mixtures of powders and extracts; and a hypoglycemic effect enhancer for thiazolidine compounds which comprises a crude drug mixture as an active ingredient comprising Ephedrae Herba, Glycyrrhizae Radix and Gypsum Fibrosum each of which is in a form of ground powders, extracts or mixtures of powders and extracts. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION [0014] The Ephedrae Herba to be used in the present invention is the terrestrial stem of Ephedra sinica Stapf or other plants of the same genus (Ephedraceae), and specific examples include the one listed in the Guide to Japanese pharmacopeia, 13th edition (published by Hirokawa Shoten, 1996, hereinafter referred to as JP Guide), pages D-1017 to D-1021. [0015] The Glycyrrhizae Radix to be used in the present invention is the root and the stolon, sometimes those that the periderm is removed (peeled Glycyrrhizae Radix), of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisher, Glycyrrhiza glabra Linne or other plants of the same genus (Leguminosae) and specific examples include the one listed in JP Guide, pages from D-227 to D-236. [0016] Gypsum Fibrosum to be used in the present invention is natural hydrous calcium sulfate, and specific examples include the one listed in JP Guide, pages from D-563 to D-565. [0017] Thiazolidine compounds include pioglitazone, troglitazone, rosiglitazone and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Of these compounds and salts thereof, pioglitazone hydrochloride and rosiglitazone maleate are more preferable. [0018] Pioglitazone and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are obtained according to the method of the preparation disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication (KOKAI) No. 22636/1980. [0019] Troglitazone and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are obtained according to the method of the preparation disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication (KOKAI) No. 51189/1985. [0020] Rosiglitazone and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are obtained according to the method of the preparation disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication (KOKAI) No. 131169/1989. Continue reading... Full patent description for Method for flavor coating drinking straw Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Method for flavor coating drinking straw patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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