摘要:
The present invention provides therapeutic agents for diseases associated with skeletal muscle degeneration comprising a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) as an active ingredient. The therapeutic agents of the present invention are especially effective as therapeutic agents for muscular dystrophy.
摘要:
The present invention provides therapeutic agents for diseases associated with skeletal muscle degeneration comprising a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) as an active ingredient. The therapeutic agents of the present invention are especially effective as therapeutic agents for muscular dystrophy.
摘要:
An objective of the present invention is to analyze the function of anti-angiogenic factors in cardiac valves or such to elucidate the developmental mechanism of angiogenesis-induced diseases. A more specific objective is to provide therapeutic agents for angiogenesis-induced diseases such as valvular heart disease, and methods of efficiently screening for the therapeutic agents. The present inventors discovered that chondromodulin-I was markedly expressed in cardiac valves, and plays an important role in maintaining normal functions of the valves by preventing angiogenesis, thickening, and calcification which lead to valvular heart diseases. Chondromodulin-I proteins and substances that activate the expression or function of the proteins are expected to have therapeutic effects against angiogenesis-induced diseases.
摘要:
It is intended to provide a method of inducing the differentiation of stem cells into myocardial cells characterized in that the induction of the differentiation of stem cells into myocardial cells is carried out by culturing the stem cells in the presence of a substance inhibiting the BMP signal transfer to thereby efficiently and selectively induce the differentiation into myocardial cells.
摘要:
For a method of inducing differentiation of cardiomyocytes from stem cells, a method is provided to induce efficiently and selectively differentiation of cardiomyocytes by such a method in which the stem cells are cultured to induce differentiation into cardiomyocytes in the presence of a substance that inihibits BMP signaling.