Abstract:
An object is to provide a novel antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof against exon 21 of human periostin. The object is achieved by an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof bindable to a conformational epitope on human periostin, wherein the epitope contains the amino acid sequence A represented by SEQ ID NO: 61 and the amino acid sequence B represented by any one of SEQ ID NOs: 62 to 64.
Abstract:
A cognitive impairment diagnostic device (1) includes: an obtainer (41) that obtains a distribution map representing a distribution of gaze points of a subject on a movie for cognitive assessment; and a diagnoser (39). The movie for cognitive assessment includes, in time order: a first movie including a first region including an image for encoding displayed in a visually enhanced manner, and a plurality of second regions including normal images displayed without being enhanced; and an assessment movie including a third region including an assessment image similar to the image for encoding and displayed at a same position as the image for encoding without being visually enhanced, and the second regions. The diagnoser (39) calculates, in a distribution map on the assessment movie, a percentage of fixation duration for which the third region is focused on, and makes diagnosis of suspected memory impairment when the percentage of fixation duration is lower than a threshold.
Abstract:
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a disease associated with upregulated periostin expression or periostin splice variant switching, which pharmaceutical composition comprises, as an active ingredient, a nucleic acid capable of inducing skipping of exon 17 in periostin gene transcription and/or a nucleic acid capable of inducing skipping of exon 21 in periostin gene transcription. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can treat a disease associated with upregulated periostin expression or periostin splice variant switching, while preventing complete inhibition of the functions of periostin.
Abstract:
Provided is an oligopeptide having preventive and therapeutic effects on infarction diseases. The oligopeptide contains a DE loop sequence of RANKL protein, and has inhibitory activity on proinflammatory cytokine secretion from cells.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a vaccine for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes using a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence of a non-human mammal, which corresponds to SEQ ID NO: 2, and the like as an immunogen, which induces a neutralizing antibody to DPP-4, and a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for diabetes, which contains a DDP-4 neutralizing antibody that recognizes a partial amino acid sequence of the aforementioned DDP-4.
Abstract translation:本发明提供了使用含有SEQ ID NO:2所示的氨基酸序列的多肽或非人哺乳动物的氨基酸序列(其对应于SEQ ID NO:2)预防或治疗糖尿病的疫苗,以及 作为免疫原的类似物,其诱导DPP-4的中和抗体,以及含有识别上述DDP-4的部分氨基酸序列的DDP-4中和抗体的糖尿病预防或治疗剂。
Abstract:
The present invention provides a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for cancer, containing an expression vector encoding a chimeric Hepatitis B virus core antigen polypeptide inserted with an amino acid sequence containing a specific epitope of VEGF and/or a specific epitope of angiopoietin-2, wherein the amino acid sequence containing the specific epitope is inserted between the amino acid residues 80 and 81 of the hepatitis B virus core antigen polypeptide.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a vaccine containing a complex of a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and an epitope of a disease-causing biological protein such as DPP4, IL-17A, IgE, S100A9 or PCSK9, which vaccine uses a less antigenic carrier protein and is capable of inducing antibody production to serve as an effective vaccine.
Abstract:
A cognitive impairment diagnostic apparatus (1) includes: a display (10) which displays a video for diagnosis of cognitive impairment on a display surface (11); an imaging unit (21) which captures images of an eye of a subject; a detection unit (37) which detects viewpoints of the subject on the display surface (11) in time series based on the images captured by the imaging unit (21); a creation unit (38) which creates a distribution map representing a distribution of the viewpoints detected by the detection unit (37); a storage unit (32) which stores case characteristic data (310) indicating a characteristic of a viewpoint distribution corresponding to a typical case in cognitive impairment; and a diagnostic unit (39) which diagnoses cognitive impairment of the subject by determining whether the distribution map has the characteristic indicated by the case characteristic data.