摘要:
There are provided a compound for treatment or prevention of brain injury caused by diseases such as cerebrovascular disorder, brain degenerative disease and demyelinating disease and a method for screening the same. Brain injury in which prostaglandin D 2 is participated is treated or prevented by inhibition of hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase induced in microglia cell or macrophage of brain injury area by diseases such as cerebrovascular disorder, brain degenerative disease or demyelinating disease or by inhibition of activation of prostaglandin D receptor expressed in astroglia cell around the injured area. There is also provided a method of testing those pharmaceutical substances using a transgenic mouse in which human hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase is expressed in large amounts.
摘要:
Crystals of lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase are produced and analyzed by X-ray difratometry to give the three dimensional structure of enzyme based on which an inhibitor of the enzyme can be designed and selected.
摘要:
Muscle degenerative diseases can be detected in the early stage and the therapeutic efficacy of a therapeutic agent and/or a therapy method for the diseases can be determined by measuring 11,15-dioxo-9α-hydroxy-2,3,4,5-tetranorprostan-1,20-dioic acid (referred to as "Tetranor-PGDM", hereinbelow) in a sample isolated from a subject.
摘要:
A method for diagnosis of the severity of a condition in an eosinophilic inflammatory disease such as nasal polyp or for prediction of the recurrence of the disease, the method comprising detecting H-PGDS induced by eosinophilic leukocytes accumulated in a lesion or determining pGD 2 in a nasal alveolar lavage fluid or Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid