Patent ID: 8592421

Claim:
A method for treating acidosis in a subject, said method comprising administering to the subject in need of such treatment a pharmaceutically-effective amount of a biologically-active compound, wherein said biologically-active compound has a general structural formula: where R is selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, and K; R 1 is selected from the group consisting of —H, —NH 2 ,—Br, —Cl, —OH, and —COOH; B is selected from the group consisting of —CH═, and —CR 1 ═; Z is selected from the group consisting of —CH═, and —CR 1 ═; and A is selected from the group consisting of —CH═, and —CR 1 ═, wherein when A is —CR 1 ═, then B is —CH═and Z is —CH═, and pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the acidosis is not caused by hypoxia.