Pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating hearing loss, comprising carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts as effective compound
The present invention is related to a pharmaceutical composition and health food for preventing or treating hearing loss, wherein the pharmaceutical composition and health food contain carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts as an effective component. More particularly, a composition including carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts as an effective component is provided as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating ototoxic hearing loss due to the carbenoxolone or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts prevent damages on auditory cells from ototoxic drugs such as cisplatin anticancer drugs, and the composition may be used as a drug for treating noise-induced hearing loss and age-related hearing loss, as well as ototoxic hearing loss.
