Patent ID: 7897644

Claim:
A method for treating inflammation, which inflammation is diabetic neuropathy, polyarthritis, arthrosis, lumbago, traumatological pain, oto-rhino-laryngological inflammation, inflammation associated with pathologies of insulin-resistant metabolic syndrome, or inflammation associated with pathologies resulting from diabetes, nephropathy, hypertension or atherosclerosis, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of one of the following compounds 2-benzyl-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-benzyl-4-(4-fluorophenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-cyclohexylmethyl-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-benzyl-4-phenyl-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-(β-naphthylmethyl)-4-phenyl-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-benzyl-4-(β-naphthyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-[(4-chlorophenyl)methyl]-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-benzyl-4-(4-methylphenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 4-(4-fluorophenyl)-2-[(4-methoxyphenyl)methyl]-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-benzyl-4-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid; 2-benzyl-4-cyclohexyl-4-oxobutanoic acid; or 4-phenyl-2-[(tetrahydrofur-2-yl)methyl]-4-oxobutanoic acid; or a salt thereof.