Abstract: The present invention provides an adiponectin secretion promoting agent comprising Cirsium brevicaule A. Gray, preferably a dry powder of the leaves of Cirsium brevicaule A. Gray, and also provides a food or drink for promoting adiponectin secretion comprising the same.

Abstract: A method of treating fatty liver comprising administering an effective amount of a plant belonging to a genus Cirsium to a patient in need of the treatment.

Abstract: A method of treating fatty liver comprising administering an effective amount of a plant belonging to a genus Cirsium to a patient in need of the treatment.

Abstract: The invention relates to sense oligonucleotide having a sequence complementary to a single-stranded RNA (antisense transcript) having a sequence complementary to mRNA of iNOS gene in order to control expression of iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase). The sense oligonucleotide of the present invention can control expression of iNOS and is useful for biological defense and treatment and prevention of diseases related to excessive production of NO, such as cancerogenesis, inflammatory disease, endotoxin shock by bacterial infection and the like.

Abstract: A fat accumulation inhibitor includes, as an active ingredient, a plant belonging to the genus Cirsium.

Abstract: The invention relates to sense oligonucleotide having a sequence complementary to a single-stranded RNA (antisense transcript) having a sequence complementary to mRNA of iNOS gene in order to control expression of iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase). The sense oligonucleotide of the present invention can control expression of iNOS and is useful for biological defense and treatment and prevention of diseases related to excessive production of NO, such as cancerogenesis, inflammatory disease, endotoxin shock by bacterial infection and the like.

Abstract: Provided is an adiponectin production-promoting agent comprising Botanbouhu as an active component. Such an adiponectin production-promoting agent is able to be used for prevention or treatment of hypoadiponectinemia.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of intracellularly controlling amounts of gene products, which can increase an amount of gene product intracellularly, comprising a step of introducing into the cell a substance having a sequence complementary to the base sequence of mRNA corresponding to the gene product, its precursor or another substance which can have equivalent action in the cell.

Abstract: The invention relates to sense oligonucleotide having a sequence complementary to a single-stranded RNA (antisense transcript) having a sequence complementary to mRNA of iNOS gene in order to control expression of iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase). The sense oligonucleotide of the present invention can control expression of iNOS and is useful for biological defense and treatment and prevention of diseases related to excessive production of NO, such as cancerogenesis, inflammatory disease, endotoxin shock by bacterial infection and the like.

Abstract: Provided is an adiponectin production-promoting agent comprising Botanbouhu as an active component. Such an adiponectin production-promoting agent is able to be used for prevention or treatment of hypoadiponectinemia. Further provided are a pharmaceutical composition, food and drink, and feed comprising such an adiponectin production-promoting agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of intracellularly controlling amounts of gene products, which can increase an amount of gene product intracellularly, comprising a step of introducing into the cell a substance having a sequence complementary to the base sequence of mRNA corresponding to the gene product, its precursor or another substance which can have equivalent action in the cell.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of intracellularly controlling amounts of gene products, which can increase an amount of gene product intracellularly, comprising a step of introducing into the cell a substance having a sequence complementary to the base sequence of mRNA corresponding to the gene product, its precursor or another substance which can have equivalent action in the cell.

Abstract: The invention relates to sense oligonucleotide having a sequence complementary to a single-stranded RNA (antisense transcript) having a sequence complementary to mRNA of iNOS gene in order to control expression of iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase). The sense oligonucleotide of the present invention can control expression of iNOS and is useful for biological defense and treatment and prevention of diseases related to excessive production of NO, such as cancerogenesis, inflammatory disease, endotoxin shock by bacterial infection and the like.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of intracellularly controlling amounts of gene products, which can increase an amount of gene product intracellularly, comprising a step of introducing into the cell a substance having a sequence complementary to the base sequence of mRNA corresponding to the gene product, its precursor or another substance which can have equivalent action in the cell.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece is formed of a power generating device for generating power, a control device for driving on receipt of a power supply from the power generating device, a display device for displaying a time by an operation of the control device, a detecting device for detecting a state of the power generating device, and a deciding device for deciding whether or not the power generating device generates power based on a detection signal sent from the detecting device. The control device controls such that a power generating state of the power generating device is displayed on the display device based on a decision of the deciding device. It is possible to reduce power consumption by stopping hands if required.

Abstract: A display unit structure for an electronic device is formed of a solar cell, and a display unit. The display unit includes a transparent base layer disposed on the solar cell, and a hologram layer laminated on the base layer and having a virtual mirror plane for reflecting a light with a predetermined wavelength. The virtual mirror plane of the hologram layer is inclined with respect to front and back surfaces of the hologram layer. Thus, the light with the predetermined wavelength is reflected by the hologram layer, and light other that the predetermined wavelength is transmitted to the solar cell.

Abstract: A dual center wheel (38), provided with a plurality of dual center wheels (36) for display of times in different time zones, driven on a hands wheel for displaying the current time, and a dual adjustment member (49) adjusted by an external adjustment member (9), is formed from a gear (38a) and a pair of planetary wheels (44, 45) supported on the gear (38a). The dual center wheel (38) is also provided with a dual wheel (43), for which the rotation is regulated by means of a jumper spring, which engages one of the planetary wheels (44), and with a dual hour wheel (46) which engages the other planetary wheel (45) rotating on the same shaft as the dual wheel (43). The dual hour wheel ( 46 ), of which rotanional speed is reduced as a result of the rotation of the dual center wheel (38), makes one turn of an integer fraction of a rotation for a one pitch rotation of the dual wheel ( 43 ).

Abstract: An electronic watch has a mechanical analog time-display with hour, minute and second hands. The watch has gear trains disposed in a portion adjacent the axis of the minute hand, and two motors disposed adjacent the gear train for driving the minute hand, hour hand and second hand. A stem is axially shiftably provided adjacent the gear train, and a lever assembly such as a setting lever, clutch lever and sliding clutch wheel is disposed adjacent the stem. A battery is disposed between the lever assembly and one of the motors, and a circuit chip is disposed between the motors.

Abstract: A method and apparatus processes data representing measured values which are liable to show a poor consistency. Measured values are formed in groups; an average value and a discreteness value of a first group of measured values are calculated; an average value is presented as a most appropriate value to a display only when the discreteness value is below a reference value; otherwise, an average value and a discreteness value of the first and additional groups of measured values are calculated, and the recalculation is continued until the discreteness value has come to be below a reference value which decreases with the number of additional groups of measured values of which an average value and a discreteness value are calculated. The average value is presented as a most appropriate value to a display when the discreteness value is below the reference value.

Abstract: A wrist watch with hour and minute hands in the form of rotatable circular films, having an electrostatic shielding device which grounds a glass of the watch through a back cover of the watch, to eliminate static electricity produced in the glass. Also, because of the use of thin rotatable circular films for the minute and hour hands, the thickness of the watch can be considerably reduced.