Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for inducing immunosuppressive cells by cultivating human cells with the use of a culture device having an affinity for protein and the culture device to be used therefor. According to the present invention, immunosuppressive cells can be efficiently induced by using a solid culture and can provide an efficient therapeutic system for diseases caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system with less side effect.
Abstract:
An antibacterial agent of the present invention contains a metal-containing compound containing a metal other than aluminum, and a phosphorus-adsorbing material. A method of using an antibacterial agent of the present invention is a method for improving an antibacterial property of a metal-containing compound containing a metal other than aluminum, wherein the metal-containing compound and a phosphorus-adsorbing compound are used in combination. Thus, the present invention provides an antibacterial agent, and a method of using an antibacterial agent, wherein an antibacterial property of a metal-containing compound containing a metal other than aluminum, particularly a silver-containing compound, is improved significantly.
Abstract:
It is intended to provide an artificial kidney of intra-corporeal type which has a function of metabolizing protein. Namely, an artificial kidney of intra-corporeal type which has a function of metabolizing protein characterized by having as constituting members a sponge sheet having a hydrogel ontaining a growth factor, which promotes angiogenesis, injected thereinto and cells having megalin, which is an endocytosis receptor playing a major role in protein metabolism in proximal convoluted tubular cells, expressed on the surface; and a method of constructing an artificial kidney of intra-corporeal type which has a function of metabolizing protein characterized by using a sponge sheet having a hydrogen containing a growth factor, which promotes angiogenesis, injected thereinto and cells having megalin expressed on the surface.
Abstract:
It is intended to detect and screen proliferative insulin-producing cells and to differentiate and proliferate the insulin-producing cells, precursor cells thereof or cells analogous thereto. Genes expressed specifically in the pancreas of a PHHI patient, which are seemingly spontaneous proliferation models of pancreatic beta cells, are detected and, by searching for on a base sequence database, three novel genes are found out. Using these genes, gene products thereof or gene sequences thereof, insulin-producing cells under proliferation can be detected by, for example, Northern analysis or RT-PCR. By transferring these genes into appropriate cells by genetic engineering techniques, moreover, these cells can be differentiated into insulin-producing cells.
Abstract:
It is intended to provide a method of detecting a nerve stem cell/a precursor cell from a tissue or a mass of cells composed of cells of a plurality of types, and a method of screening a drug capable of serving as a nerve differentiation factor, etc. by using the detection method. It is found out that NC1 gene shows a high expression level in undifferentiated nerve stem cells and its expression level is lowered as the differentiation proceeds. Thus, a nerve stem cell/a precursor cell can be detected by various methods with the use of the NC1 gene, its gene product (NC1 protein), a base sequence or an amino acid sequence originating therein, an antibody and so on, and a novel method for screening a drug capable of serving as a nerve differentiation factor can be provided.