The pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound of the invention
having 8-azaprostaglandin skeleton represented by formula (I)
##STR00001## (wherein, all the symbols have the same meanings as that of
the specification) a salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a cyclodextrin
clathrate thereof, or a prodrug thereof and them as active ingredient
have EP.sub.4 agonistic action and thus are considered useful for the
prevention and/or treatment of immunological diseases, asthma, neuronal
cell death, arthritis, lung failure, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary
emphysema, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, liver
damage, acute hepatitis, nephritis, renal insufficiency, hypertension,
myocardial ischemia, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis,
hemophagous syndrome, macrophage activation syndrome, Still's disease,
Kawasaki disease, burn, systemic granulomatosis, ulcerative colitis,
Crohn's disease, hypercytokinemia at dialysis, multiple organ failure,
shock and glaucoma, etc. Furthermore, the compounds also have an action
of accelerating bone formation, so it is expected to be useful for the
prevention and/or treatment of diseases associated with loss in bone
mass, for example, primary osteoporosis, secondary osteoporosis, bone
metastasis of cancer, hypercalcemia, Paget's disease, bone loss,
osteonecrosis, bone formation after bone operation, alternative treatment
for bone grafting.