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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide isoflavone compounds having high bioactivity and a method for producing the same.SOLUTION: The method for producing isoflavone compounds includes subjecting a compound of formula (1) to light irradiation and/or heat-treatment in the presence of chlorophyll. In the formula, Rto Rand A are specific groups.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small-sized sustained-release tablet which contains a large number of sustained-release particles containing medicinal components, has excellent sustained-release properties and sufficient rigidity, and is easy in oral ingestion for a patient.SOLUTION: The sustained-release tablet contains the particles containing the medicinal components and having the sustained-release properties, and an antistatic agent and an excipient.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To develop and provide a natural material which is safe and inexpensive and can be ingested easily, routinely and continuously, which has a remarkable action of maintaining muscle force and improving joint function, and which is effective for prevention and/or improvement of various muscle force maintenance and joint functional disorders, especially, subjective symptoms resulting from problems with muscles or joints, e.g., joint pain, gait disorder, and decrease in joint movement range.SOLUTION: The composition for maintenance of muscle force and improvement of joint function comprises a wheat protein hydrolyzate, preferably, a wheat gluten hydrolyzate, and especially preferably, a peptide having an L-glutamine content of 15-60 mass% and an average molar weight of 200-100,000 daltons.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine that is easily produced, is readily taken and has anti-allergic actions. SOLUTION: A heat-treated blue soybean seed and/or its solvent extract is used as an active ingredient of the anti-allergic agent. Having extremely strong inhibitory action on IgE production, the blue soybean seed after heat-treatment is useful as an anti-allergic agent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an excellent sleep-improving composition expressing high improving effect to sleep disorders, able to be safely and simply ingested daily, and imparting comfortable sleeping. SOLUTION: The sleep-improving composition comprises a hydrolyzate of casein which is a main ingredient of milk protein, and minerals daily ingested as supplements. While the composition expresses highly improved effect for sleep disorders such as waking at night and poor sleep, it is highly safe, and is able to be continuously digested daily. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT