Abstract: The present invention provides a method of inhibiting the leakage of a drug encapsulated in liposomes, which comprises satisfying at least two requirements selected from the group consisting of the following three requirements: using at least two lipid bilayers of the liposomes, controlling the average particle size of the liposomes to 120 nm or more, and using lipid having a phase transition temperature higher than in vivo temperature as lipid constituting the liposomes. Also, the present invention provides a liposome preparation which is stable in vivo and satisfies at least two requirements selected from the group consisting of the following three requirements: the number of lipid bilayers of the liposomes is at least two, the liposomes have an average particle size of 120 nm or more, and lipid constituting the liposomes has a phase transition temperature higher than in vivo temperature.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a method of purifying ubiquinone-10, which includes separating and removing a substance structurally similar to ubiquinone-10 contained in a starting material solution containing ubiquinone-10 by the use of a porous crosslinked acrylic polymer, more preferably, a method of purifying ubiquinone-10 by separating and removing a substance structurally similar to ubiquinone-10 contained in a starting material solution, which includes feeding a starting material solution containing ubiquinone-10 in a simulated moving bed chromatography apparatus wherein a solution can circulate in one direction in a packed-bed wherein a porous crosslinked acrylic polymer is packed, and flowing an eluent in the packed-bed in one direction, is provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a therapeutic agent for diabetes mellitus or insulin resistance improving agent, or to provide foods and drinks, food and drink additives, and feeds or feed additives for treating diabetes mellitus or improving insulin diabetes. In order to achieve such an object, the present invention provides a therapeutic agent for diabetes mellitus and insulin resistance improving agent comprising hydroxyproline, a hydroxyproline derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or foods and drinks, food and drink additives, feeds or feed additives for treatment of diabetes mellitus or improvement of insulin resistance comprising the same.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a tablet capable of comprising ornithine hydrochloride in a higher content; and a process for producing the same, and provides the tablet comprising ornithine hydrochloride and maltose, or a linear or cyclic dextrin; and the process for producing a tablet comprising ornithine hydrochloride, which comprises compression molding a mixture comprising ornithine hydrochloride and maltose, or a linear or cyclic dextrin by a direct tableting method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating behavioral disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, comprising administering an effective amount of (E)-8-(3,4-dimethoxystyryl)-1,3-diethyl-7-methylxanthine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a patient in need thereof and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing leukemia, pre-leukemia or aleukemic malignant blood diseases, a method of discriminating leukemia from pre-leukemia or aleukemic malignant blood diseases, a method of discriminating aplastic anemia from myelodysplastic syndrome, a method of diagnosing delayed engraftment of the hematopoietic stem cells after transplantation of the hematopoietic stem cells, and a method of diagnosing the graft versus host disease, each of said methods comprising quantifying stem cell growth factor (SCGF). The present invention also makes it possible to provide an agent for diagnosing leukemia, pre-leukemia or aleukemic malignant blood diseases and an agent for diagnosing delayed engraftment of the hematopoietic stem cells after transplantation of the hematopoietic stem cells or an agent for diagnosing graft versus host disease (GVHD), each containing as an active ingredient an antibody reacting with stem cell growth factor (SCGF).

Abstract: The present invention provides an external preparation which comprises 7-[2-(3,5-dichloro-4-pyridyl)-1-oxoethyl]-4-methoxy-spiro[1,3-benzodioxol-2,1?-cyclopentane] represented by Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient, comprising 0.5 to 15% by mass of a solvent component in which the solubility of the active ingredient is 4 mg/mL or more, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides, for example, a method of inhibiting aggregation of complex particles in which a drug is adhered to lead particles, characterized by containing a lipid derivative or a fatty acid derivative of one or more substance(s) selected from sugars, peptides, nucleic acids and water-soluble polymers or a surfactant in the lead particles. Further, it provides, for example, a method of producing the complex particles in which a nucleic acid as a drug or a drug is adhered to lead particles, comprising the step of dispersing or dissolving the nucleic acid as a drug or the drug and an adhesion-competitive agent so as to be contained in a liquid in which the lead particles containing a lipid derivative or a fatty acid derivative of one or more substance(s) selected from sugars, peptides, nucleic acids and water-soluble polymers or a surfactant are dispersed, thereby allowing the nucleic acid as a drug or the drug and the adhesion-competitive agent adhered to the lead particles.

Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide a composition for suppressing the expression of a target gene and the like, and provides a composition, comprising an RNA-encapsulated liposome which comprises complex particles comprising as constituent components a lead particle and an RNA comprising a sequence consisting of 15 to 30 contiguous nucleotides of a target gene mRNA and a sequence complementary to the sequence, and a lipid membrane for coating the complex particles, wherein constituent components of the lipid membrane can be solved in a polar organic solvent, and wherein the polar organic solvent can be contained in a liquid at such a concentration that the constituent components of the lipid membrane are dispersible and the complex particles are dispersible, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antitumor agent and the like, which comprises as an active ingredient, a pyrimidine derivative represented by Formula (I): [wherein —X—Y-Z- represents —O—CR3?N— (wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group and the like) and the like, R1 represents —NR10R11 (wherein R10 and R11 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like) and the like, R2 represents —NR13R14 (wherein R13 and R14 may be the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like)] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant antibody composition which is a human IgG1 antibody, comprises a CH2 domain in which amino acids at positions 276 and 339 indicated by the EU index as in Kabat, et al. are replaced by other amino acids and has more improved complement-dependent cytotoxic activity than an antibody comprising a CH2 domain before the amino acids are replaced; a DNA encoding the antibody molecule or a heavy chain constant region of the antibody molecule contained in the recombinant antibody composition; a transformant obtainable by introducing the DNA into a host cell; a process for producing the recombinant antibody composition using the transformant; and a medicament comprising the recombinant antibody composition as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound represented by Formula (I): [wherein R1 represents CONR1aR1b (wherein R1a and R1b may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted ararkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, or R1a and R1b are combined together with the adjacent nitrogen atom thereto to form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group) or the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom, CONR2aR2b (wherein R2a and R2b may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted ararkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, or R2a and R2b are combined together with the adjacent nitrogen atom thereto to form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group), NR2cR2d (wherein R2c and R2d may be the same or different and each represents a

Abstract: The present invention relates to a protein derived from a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus, which has an activity of hydroxylating a compound represented by the formula (I-a): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or an alkali metal, and R2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a ring-closed lactone form thereof; a DNA encoding the protein; and a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA.

Abstract: An Object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a nerve cell by inducing differentiation of an embryonic stem cell, a method for inducing differentiation of the embryonic stem cell into a nerve cell, a medium to be used in the production process or differentiation induction method, or a method for improving purity of the nerve cell obtained by inducing differentiation of the embryonic stem cell. The present invention provides a process for producing a nerve cell which is applicable to treatment of neurodegenerative disease or the like easily, selectively or inexpensively by inducing differentiation induction of an embryonic stem cell using vitamin B12 or a salt thereof and heparin, a substance having heparin-like activity or a salt.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for oral administration, which comprises at least one kind of dipeptide represented by the formula: X-Y (wherein X represents alanyl, glycyl, arginyl, seryl, ?-aspartyl or ?-glutamyl, and Y represents valine, leucine or isoleucine), with an object of providing a composition for oral administration which is excellent in nutrition, pharmacological effect and gustation and comprises at least one kind selected from valine, leucine and isoleucine, or providing a composition for oral administration which is excellent in processing characteristics such as solubility and tableting property and comprises at least one kind selected from valine, leucine and isoleucine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence in which at least one amino acid is deleted, substituted or added in an amino acid sequence of isopropylmalate isomerase derived from a microorganism belonging to coryneform bacteria, wherein a coryneform bacterium which produces the polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence as the sole isopropylmalate isomerase exhibits a partial leucine requirement in a minimal medium; a DNA encoding the polypeptide, a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA, a microorganism transformed with the recombinant DNA, and a process for producing an L-amino acid using the microorganism.

Abstract: An antibody which binds to a polypeptide encoded by human PERP (p53 apoptosis effector related to PMP-22) gene which is considered to be related to incidence of cancer or the like is desired. The present invention provides a gene recombinant antibody which has no consensus sequence of an N-linked sugar chain in a variable region, specifically recognizes three-dimensional structure of an extracellular region of a polypeptide encoded by the PERP gene and binds to the extracellular region. The antibody is useful for treatment of various diseases expressing a polypeptide encoded by the PERP gene.

Abstract: A therapeutic and/or prophylactic agent for a hematopoietic tumor, which comprises a thiadiazoline derivative represented by the general formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: [Formula 1] [wherein, n represents an integer of 1 to 3, R1 represents a hydrogen atom, R2 represents lower alkyl, or R1 and R2 are combined together to represent alkylene, R3 represents lower alkyl, R4 represents NHSO2R6 (wherein R6 represents hydroxy or the like) or the like, and R5 represents aryl or the like] and the like are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing compounds by using a protein derived from a microorganism belonging to the genus Bacillus, which has an activity of hydroxylating a compound represented by the formula (I-a): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or an alkali metal, and R2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or a ring-closed lactone from thereof.

Abstract: For the effective treatment of diseases such as cancer in which hIGF participates, there have been desired to be developed antibodies which strongly bind to both factors hIGF-I and hIGF-II and inhibit their functions and fragments of these antibodies. The present invention provides antibodies which have the ability to specifically bind to human IGF-I and IGF-II to thereby inhibit the functions of human IGF-I and IGF-II and have binding activity with a binding constant of 5×109 M?1 or more measured with a biosensor BIACORE. In addition, the present invention provides diagnostics, preventives and remedies for an hIGF-mediated disease and a disease showing pathological progressing due to abnormally promoted hIGF production, which use said antibodies.