Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (1) [A represents a nitrogen-containing saturated ring; m represents an integer of 0 to 2; n represents an integer of 1 to 4; G1 represents hydrogen atom, chlorine atom, hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, or amino group; G2 represents a halogen atom, hydroxyl group, cyano group, carboxy group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, and the like; G3 represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, hydroxyl group, cyano group, carboxy group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, and the like; G4 represents hydroxyl group, or —N(R1)(R2) (R1 and R2 represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or a saturated heterocyclic group); G5 is a substituent on a ring-constituting carbon atom of A, and represents hydrogen atom, fluorine atom, or an alkyl group] or a salt thereof, or a derivative thereof that is a prodrug, which potently inhibits Rho kinase.

Abstract: A medicine that is extremely useful for preventing and/or treating osteoarthritis, which includes a parathyroid hormone (PTH), and methods of use of such medicine.

Abstract: Preferred embodiments of the present invention are related to novel therapeutic drug combinations and methods for treating and/or preventing pulmonary arterial hypertension and/or stable angina. More particularly, aspects of the present invention are related to therapeutic combinations comprising a Rho-kinase inhibitor, such as fasudil, and one or more additional compounds selected from the group consisting of prostacyclins, such as iloprost, endothelin receptor antagonists, PDE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, 5-HT2A antagonists, such as sarpogrelate, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, such as fluoxetine, statins, and vascular remodeling modulators, such as Gleevec.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (1) or a salt thereof, which has superior inhibitory activity against type 4 PLA2, and thus has prostaglandin and/or leucotriene production suppressing action [X represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group which may be substituted, or the like, Y represents hydrogen atom or an alkyl group which may be substituted, and Z represents hydrogen atom or an alkyl group which may be substituted].

Abstract: Compounds represented by the Formula (A-1) and the Formula (1) or salt thereof are provided. The compounds represented by the Formula (A-1) and the Formula (1) or salt thereof have a ?3 adrenergic receptor agonist activity, and therefore are useful as an agent for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, depression, biliary stone, a disorder derived from hyperactivity of biliary tract, a disorder derived from hyperactivity of digestive tract, interstitial cystitis, overactive bladder, urinary incontinence or a disorder derived from decreased tear secretion, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein D1, A1, D2, R1, D3, and R2 each have the same meaning as defined in the present specification or a salt thereof. The compound represented by the formula (1) or a salt thereof has an IKK? inhibiting activity and the like and is useful for the prevention and/or treatment of IKK?-associated diseases or symptoms and the like.

Abstract: A method of treating osteoporosis by PTH that has excellent safety and high efficacy is disclosed, along with a method for inhibiting/preventing bone fractures by PTH that has excellent safety, as well as providing a drug to do this. A drug containing PTH as the active ingredient is disclosed, characterized in that a unit dose of PTH of 100 to 200 units is administered weekly in the above method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for a tumor, particularly a therapeutic agent for drug-resistant cancer, an agent for suppression or prophylaxis of tumor metastasis, and an agent for suppression or prophylaxis of cancer recurrence, containing a nucleic acid containing miR27b or a nucleotide having a nucleotide sequence having an identity of 70% or more with the nucleotide sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 1 and having a function equivalent to miR27b.

Abstract: Provided are a method of stabilizing a leuco dye storable as a liquid for a long time, a method of reducing nonspecific color development thereof at a time of a color development reaction, and a stable liquid reagent composition using the methods. The inventors of the present invention found that coexistence of the leuco dye with a specific reducing agent resulted in suppression of self color development and its remarkably improved stability in a solution, and that when a color development reaction of the leuco dye with hydrogen peroxide was performed, coexistence of the leuco dye, in a reaction solution, with another dye which had an absorption spectrum not influencing a measurement wavelength of the leuco dye and did not react with hydrogen peroxide suppressed nonspecific color development and lowered a reagent blank value, which was applied to an analytical reagent.

Abstract: [Objective] To provide a drug that selectively stimulates the ?3-adrenergic receptors, particularly a drug capable of preferentially stimulating the ?3-adrenergic receptors over the ?1-adrenergic receptors. This drug can be used in the treatment and prevention of diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, depression, cholelithiasis, diseases caused by biliary hyperkinesia, diseases caused by hyperfunction of the gastrointestinal tract, interstitial cystitis, overactive bladder or urinary incontinence, diseases associated with decreased lacrimation, and the like. [Solution] Indazole analogs represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof. Drugs that contains these indazole analogs or a salt thereof as the active ingredient.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to obtain a soluble thrombomodulin substantially not containing a denatured product of soluble thrombomodulin that may be generated under acidic conditions.

Abstract: (S)-1-(4-Chloro-5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-3-(methylamino)pyrrolidine monohydrochloride and a crystal thereof, and a crystal of the aforementioned monohydrochloride having a major peak or peaks at one or more positions selected from the group consisting of positions where 2?s are about 13.9°, 21.5°, 21.7°, 22.4°, 22.8°, 24.5° and 35.0° in a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum, which have excellent properties as active ingredient of a medicament for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of glaucoma and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for measuring the concentration of an analyte in a test solution wherein the analyte is mevalonic acid and/or 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A, comprising the following steps (p) and (q): (p) a step of allowing an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction represented by Reaction Formula 1 and an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction represented by Reaction Formula 2 to act on a test solution containing mevalonic acid and/or 3-hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor X, a hydrogen donor Y, and coenzyme A; and (q) a step of measuring an amount of: a reduced hydrogen acceptor X that is produced; or an oxidized hydrogen donor Y that is produced; or a hydrogen acceptor X that is decreased; or a hydrogen donor Y that is decreased, wherein the hydrogen donor Y and the reduced hydrogen acceptor X are not the same.

Abstract: Provided is a novel and useful method of measuring pyrophosphate in a sample. There may be provided a novel and useful method of measuring pyrophosphate in a sample using pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase, nicotinamide-nucleotide adenylyltransferase, and dehydrogenase.

Abstract: Composition for accurately assaying a glycated protein by: 1) avoiding effects of globulin and ascorbic acid components, 2) siabilizing proteases and at least enzymes acting on glycated amino acids; 3) accurately assaying albumin; and 4) assaying glycated albumin while avoiding the effects of glycated hemoglobin, and an assay method are provided. Thus, the contents of a glycated protein and glycated albumin can be more accurately determined.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical useful as a therapeutic agent and a preventive agent for hyperlipemia, and a pharmaceutical useful as a therapeutic agent and a preventive agent for hepatic disorders associated with cholestasis, particularly, primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, and a pharmaceutical useful as a therapeutic agent and a preventive agent for obesity, fatty liver and steatohepatitis are provided.

Abstract: Stabilizers for colorants used for detection of enzymatic reactions, having a cyclodextrin and a catalase; reagents including stabilizers; and methods of use of such stabilizers and reagents.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a novel pharmaceutical agent having an excellent preventive effect on post-stroke RSD. The present invention provides an agent for preventing the onset of post-stroke RSD, comprising natural calcitonin or a calcitonin derivative as an active ingredient. The present invention is also intended to provide a method for preventing the onset of post-stroke RSD, comprising administering natural calcitonin or a calcitonin derivative and use of natural calcitonin or a calcitonin derivative for producing an agent for preventing the onset of post-stroke RSD.

Abstract: The sulfoneamide compounds having the following Formula (1), which can be used as an effective component of a CaSR antagonizing agent useful for prophylaxis and/or treatment of bone disorders including osteoporosis and etc., are provided. The compounds have an excellent activity of promoting PTH secretion. In addition, the compounds are useful as an effective component of a medicament for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of bone disorders such as osteoporosis, bone fracture, hypoparathyroidism and the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sugar and/or a sugar alcohol as a substance for suppressing dephosphorylation reaction of a phosphorylated coenzyme. Also disclosed is a method for stabilizing a phosphorylated coenzyme which is characterized by having at least a substance for suppressing dephosphorylation reaction of the phosphorylated coenzyme coexist with the phosphorylated coenzyme.