Patent ID: 6909007

Claim:
A steroidal compound or a salt thereof having the following formula: A—B—C—NO 2 wherein: A is a steroidal drug radical having the formula: B=—T B —X 2 -T BI —, wherein: T B is O, T BI is (CO) or O, and X 2 is a bivalent bridging group such as the corresponding precursor of B, having the formula Z—T B —X 2 —T BI —Z′ in which Z and Z′ are independently H or OH, is selected from the following compounds: C is the bivalent radical —T C —Y—, wherein: T C is (CO) when T BI is O, T C is O when T BI is (CO), and Y is a linear or branched C 1 to C 20 alkyleneoxy group or a cycloalkylene, wherein the cycloalkylene has from 5 to 7 carbon atoms, one or more carbon atoms in the cycloalkyleneic ring can be substituted by heteroatoms, and the cycloalkyleneic ring can have methyl side chains.