| abstract |
A furan derivative of formula (I) and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having gastrointestinal enterokinetic activity which is expected to be used in a broad spectrum of diseases associated with gastrointestinal dyskinesia (see formula I) wherein X is hydrogen or R1CH2- where R1 is lower alkoxy or R2R3N-, where R2 and R3 are the same or different and each is hydrogen or lower alkyl, or R2 and R3, taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom, represent a heterocyclic group of the formula (see formula II) |