| abstract |
Pharmaceutical compositions contain as an active ingredient oxaluric acid derivatives of the formula (I):wherein each of R, and R<sub>2</sub>, which may be the same or different, represents hydrogen or an alkyl or cycloalkyl group or the groupand each of R<sub>3</sub> and R<sub>4</sub>, which may be the same or different, represents hydrogen, halogen, a nitro group or a lower alkyl or lower alkoxy group, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and metal complexes thereof. The compositions have hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic acitivity. Several of the compounds disclosed are novel per se. |