| abstract |
Pharmaceutical compositions and a method are disclosed forntreating glaucoma and/or ocular hypertension in the mammalian eye bynadministering to the mammalian eye the pharmaceutical compositionnof the invention which contains, as the active ingredient, one or morencompounds having potassium channel blocking activity. Examples ofnpotassium channel blockers utilized in the pharmaceutical compositionnand method of treatment are quinine, tremogenic indole alkaloids, suchnas Penitrem A and paspalicine, and insect toxins such as charybdotoxinnand iberiotoxin. |