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It is intended to provide a humanized anti-human osteopontin antibody which is superior to conventional anti-human osteopontin antibodies in terms of activities (an antigen-binding activity, a leukocyte migration inhibitory activity and the like) and/or stability (resistance to heat, hypoxic conditions or denaturants, and the like).
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Disclosed is a method for determination of a condition of disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome (DIC) in a DIC patient, wherein the method comprises determining the amount and/or the enzymatic activity of a von Willebrand factor (vWF)-cleaving enzyme (ADAMTS13) (preferably also the amount of vWF). Also disclosed is a kit for determination of a condition of DIC, wherein the kit comprises an antibody capable of binding specifically to ADAMTS13 or a fragment thereof. The method enables to achieve a differential diagnosis of a thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) patient from a DIC patient, which has been difficult to achieve previously only based on clinical observations or only by using conventional markers.
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The present invention provides a method for enhancing the immunogenicity using a microneedle device capable of enhancing the immunogenicity of an influenza vaccine. According to the method for enhancing the immunogenicity using the present microneedle device, a microneedle device having microneedles made of polylactic acid, coated with an influenza vaccine composed of an antigen having type A strain (H1N1), type A strain (H3N2), and type B strain as active ingredients is brought into direct contact with the skin so as to transcutaneously administer the aforementioned influenza vaccine. After the transcutaneous administration, lauryl alcohol is applied to the site of the skin where the microneedle device has been brought into direct contact.
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It is intended to provide a foreign protein free from any expression inducer and a process for producing the same. Namely, a process for producing a foreign protein involving the step of proliferating a recombinant Escherichia coli, which expresses the foreign protein under the control by a promoter capable of inducing the expression due to the temperature shift, by arbitrarily culturing at a low temperature and then culturing the strain at a high temperature in the absence of an expression inducer to thereby allow the expression of the foreign protein, or the step of culturing the above Escherichia coli strain at a high temperature and thus effecting the proliferation of the cells and the expression of the foreign protein at the same time; and a foreign protein free from any expression inducer which is obtained by this process. Particular examples of such foreign proteins include main tick allergens, Actinogacillus pleuropneumoniae-origin secretory macrophage toxin and a protective antigen against Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae-infection.
摘要:
A novel type A botulinum toxin preparation is provided. A neuromuscular transmission blocking agent comprising as an active ingredient a highly purified type A botulinum toxin from Clostridium botulinum as infant botulism pathogen and a medicament for treating a disease with a muscle overactivity comprising as an active ingredient said toxin. In particular, the medicament of the present invention, as compared to the conventional known botulinum toxin preparations, has rapid efficacy of potential and is less diffusive and thus, having a broader safety margin, may be used as therapeutic medicament for decreasing local, muscle overactivity in a disease with a muscle overactivity.
摘要:
A method of heating a human serum albumin solution containing foreign substances from host in the presence of divalent cation, such as calcium ion, magnesium ion, nickel ion, cobalt ion, iron ion or zinc ion to thereby effect selective coagulation of the foreign substances; and a human serum albumin of high purity obtained by the method.
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The present invention relates to a method for quantitatively measuring the muscular relaxing activity of a neurotoxin. Specifically, based on an extent of the activity of muscular relaxation of a neurotoxin from bacteria of Clostridium , the present invention relates to a method for quantification of the efficacy (potential and/or diffusion reaction) of a neurotoxin comprising the following steps of: (a) administering a neurotoxin to the hind leg muscle of one of hind legs of a non-human mammal; (b) applying electric stimulus to said non-human mammal; (c) measuring a compound muscle action potential (CMAP) by contraction of said hind leg muscle to which the neurotoxin is administered and/or of the hind leg muscle of the other hind leg to which the neurotoxin is not administered; and (d) taking amplitude data from the compound muscle action potential (CMAP) obtained by the measurement in step (c) and analyzing an extent of a decrease in amplitude to thereby quantify the efficacy of the muscular relaxing activity by the neurotoxin. In contrast to the mouse LD 50 currently used as a potential unit of a botulinum toxin which is measurable at a level of only several units, the quantification method of the efficacy of a neurotoxin of the present invention allows for measurement at a level of as low as 0.01 to 1 unit and hence is a method with a high sensitivity, reproducibility and accuracy.
摘要:
The present inventors generated modified antibodies in which several Fc domains are linked in tandem to the C terminus of the heavy chain, and modified antibodies in which Fc domains are linked in tandem via spacers, and measured the affinity for Fc receptors, CDC activity, and ADCC activity. A previous report indicated that CDC activity is not enhanced by linking multiple Fcs. However, the modified antibodies of the present invention exhibited enhanced ADCC activity. The methods of the present invention enable provision of antibody pharmaceuticals having a marked therapeutic effect.
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Medicinal compositions for preventing and treating hemorrhagic symptoms associating abnormal blood coagulation which contain as the main active ingredient a combination of activated blood coagulation factor VII (FVIIa) with blood coagulation factor X (FX). These compositions contain no component mainly causing side effects, are highly safe and efficacious, and make it possible to easily control hemostatis. Thus, these compositions are usable in controlling the hemostatis of, for example, patients suffering from blood coagulation failure due to, for example, abnormality (including defect) in blood coagulation factors, in particular, carrying a blood coagulation factor inhibitor (antibody).