Abstract: The present invention provides crystals of 6-[4-(4-pyridylamino)phenyl]-4,5-dihydro-3(2H)-pyridazinone hydrochloride trihydrate useful as a medicament for therapeutic treatment of cardiac failure, and the like; and a pharmaceutical composition comprising said crystals as an active ingredient. The crystal of the present invention has characteristic absorption peaks (2? degrees) at 12.9 (±0.2°) and 19.0 (±0.2°), for example, in powder X-ray diffractometry.

Abstract: The present invention intends to find out a gene participating in addition of mannose phosphate to a sugar chain of a glycoprotein originating in a yeast belonging to the genus Pichia and provide a means of controlling the same. The present invention also intends to provide a process for producing a protein with reduction of an acidic sugar chain by using the thus controlled yeast strain belonging to the genus Pichia. Namely, the present invention includes a protein participating in the addition of mannose phosphate to a sugar chain of a glycoprotein; a gene coding this protein; a mutant of this gene; a vector carrying the mutant gene; a yeast strain belonging to the genus Pichia having been transformed by this vector; a process for producing a protein with reduction of an acidic sugar chain by using the transformed yeast strain; and a glycoprotein thus produced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: Wherein: X represents a bond, an ethenylene group, an ethynylene group, a methylene group optionally substituted; a carbonyl group, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxide group or a nitrogen atom being optionally substituted; R1 represents a 2, 4 or 5-pyrimidinyl optionally substituted; R2 represents a C1-6 alkyl group, a C1-2 perhalogenated alkyl group, a C1-3 halogenated alkyl group, a benzyl group, a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, 5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalene ring, a pyridine ring, an indole ring, a pyrrole ring, a thiophene ring, a furan ring or an imidazole ring, the benzyl group and the rings being optionally substituted; and n represents 0 to 3.

Abstract: The invention relates to use of a pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I)or a salt thereof wherein: X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, m, n and p are as defined herein. In particular, the invention relates to a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient which is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3? or GSK3? and cdk5/p25, such as Alzheimer disease.

Abstract: The invention relates to an use of pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein m, n, p, X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein for treating a variety of disease states. More specifically, the invention relates to a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient which is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3? or GSK3? and cdk5/p25, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: The invention relates to therapeutic uses of a 2-(diaza-bicyclo-alkyl)-pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I): Wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and n are as defined herein. Specifically, the compounds of formula (I) are used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3?, such as Alzheimer's disease. The invention relates also to intermediates for the preparation of compound of formula (I).

Abstract: The invention relates to use of a pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof as therapeutic agents: Wherein m, n, p, X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4 R5, are as defined herein. The invention specifically relates to a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient which is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3? or GSK3? and cdk5/p25, such as Alzheimer disease.

Abstract: As the results of intensive studies aiming at providing a gene targeting a cancer cell or a cancer tissue, novel nucleotide sequences showing increased expression in a cancer cell or a cancer tissue compared with normal tissues are identified. As the results of the subsequent studies, genes showing increased expression in a cancer cell or a cancer tissue which are useful as a drug discovery target are found out.

Abstract: The invention relates to a imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: R1 wherein X represents a bond, an ethenylene group, an ethenylene group, a methylene group optionally substituted; a carbonyl group, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxide group or a nitrogen atom being optionally substituted; R1 represents a 2, 4 or 5-pyrimidinyl optionally substituted; R2 represents a C1-6 alkyl group, a C1-2 perhalogenated alkyl group,a C1-3 halogenated alkyl group, a benzyl group, a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, 5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalene ring, a pyridine ring, an indole ring, a pyrrole ring, a thiophene ring, a furan ring or an imidazole ring, the benzyl group and the rings being optionally substituted; and n represents 0 to 3.

Abstract: A pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof, or a solvate thereof or a hydrate thereof having inhibitory activity against tau protein kinase 1: wherein R1 represents a C1-C12 alkyl group which may be substituted; R represents, for example, a group represented by the following formula (II): wherein R2 and R3 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a C1-C8 alkyl group; R4 represents a benzene ring which may be substituted, a naphthalene ring which may be substituted, an indan ring which may be substituted, a tetrahydronaphthalene ring which may be substituted, or an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring having 1 to 4 hetero atoms selected from the group consisting of oxygen atom, sulfur atom and nitrogen atom, and having 5 to 10 ring-constituting atoms in total.

Abstract: A novel human monoclonal antibody specifically recognizing cancer cells such as non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and gastric cancer cells is produced by hybridomas which are obtained by fusing lymphocytes derived from a cancer tissue of a cancer patient with mouse myeloma cells. An anti-cancer drug is obtained by using the antibody alone or anchoring the antibody on the surface of a liposome containing a toxin or an anti-cancer drug encapsulated therein. More specifically, an anti-cancer drug is obtained by using an antibody, in which variable region of its heavy chain comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 115 and variable region of the light chain comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 117, alone or anchoring the antibody on the surface of a liposome containing a toxin or an anti-cancer drug encapsulated therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof wherein: X represents two hydrogen atoms, a sulphur atom, an oxygen atom or a C1-2 alkyl group and a hydrogen atom; y represents a bond, an ethenylene group, an ethynylene group, an oxygen atom, a sulphur atom, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxide group, a carbonyl group, a nitrogen atom being optionally; or a methylene group optionally substituted; R1 represents a pyrimidine group optionally substituted; R2 may represent a C1-6 alkyl group optionally substituted by a C6,10 aryloxy or a C6,10 arylamino group; a C3-6 cycloalkyl group, a C1-4 alkylthio group, a C1-4 alkoxy group, a C1-2 perhalogenated alkyl group, a C1-3 halogenated alkyl group, a phenylthio group, a benzyl group, a benzene ring, an indan ring, a 5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalene ring, a naphthalene ring, a pyridine ring, a pyrrole ring, a thiophene ring, a furan ring or an imidazole ring; R3 and R4 represents each independently a hydrogen atom, C1-6 alkyl group,

Abstract: Optimum compounding composition of a local injection preparation for treating rectal submucous lesioned abnormal tissue with local anesthetic is decided to provide a medical composition kit. In a composition kit for the treatment where respective containers are unsealed upon being used and respective contents are mixed to obtain a preparation for injection, a medical composition kit which is characterized in that respective single doses of a therapeutic preparation and local anesthetic are fractionally charged in containers, the said therapeutic preparation contains 1˜10% of a water-soluble aluminum compound and 0.01˜2% of tannic acid and the said local anesthetic contains 0.1˜1% of lidocaine hydrochloride or 0.5˜5% of procaine hydrochloride.

Abstract: A pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: Wherein: R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group which may be substituted by a C6,10 aryl group; R2 represents a C1-10 alkyl group which may be substituted, a C2-6 alkenyl group which may be substituted, a C3-6 alkynyl group which may be substituted, a C3-6 cycloalkyl group which may be substituted, or a C6-10 ARYL group which may be substituted; or R1 and R2 form together a C2-6 alkylene group which may be substituted; or R1 and R2 form together a chain of formula —(CH2)2—X—(CH2)2— or —(CH2)2—X—(CH2)3— where X represents a oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a nitrogen atom which may be substituted; R3 represents a 2, 3 or 4-pyridyl group optionally substituted by a C1-4 alkyl group, C1-4 alkoxy group or halogen atom; and R4 represents a C1-10 alkyl group optionally substituted by a hydroxyl group, amino, C1-6 monoalkylamino group, C2-12 dialkylamino group or C6,10 aryl group which may be substituted.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dihydrospiro-[cycloalkylamine]-pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein: X represents two hydrogen atoms, a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom or a C1-2 alkyl group and a hydrogen atom; Y represents a bond, a carbonyl group, a methylene group optionally substituted; R1 represents a 2, 3 or 4-pyridine ring or a 2, 4 or 5-pyrimidine ring, the ring being optionally substituted; R2 represents a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring; the rings being optionally substituted; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group or a halogen atom; R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-4 alkoxy carbonyl group, a C1-5 alkyl group optionally substituted; o and m represent 1 to 2; n represents 0 to 3; p represents 0 to 2; and q represents 0 to 2.

Abstract: The invention relates to therapeutic uses of a dihydrospiro-[cycloalkyl]-pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein X, Y, R1, R2, R3, m, n, p and q are as described herein. Specifically, the invention relates to a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient which is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a neurodegenerative disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3?, such as Alzheimer disease.

Abstract: It was found that an antibody containing the amino acid sequences described in the sequence listing as SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 6 was an antibody having reactivity also to ovarian cancer, as well as the cancer species known so far such as gastric cancer, colon cancer and breast cancer, and was useful as an ovarian cancer tissue-specific diagnostic and/or therapeutic agent.

Abstract: A method for screening a gene relating to a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia, which comprises the step of using a nematode behaviorally sensitized with amphetamine, methamphetamine, apomorphine, cocaine or the like for screening of a gene relating to the behavioral sensitization, and a method for screening a substance useful for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of a psychiatric disorder, which comprises the step of using a nematode behaviorally sensitized with amphetamine, methamphetamine, apomorphine, cocaine or the like for screening of a substance that affects the behavioral sensitization.

Abstract: The invention relates to therapeutic uses of a pyrimidone derivative represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: Wherein X, Y, R1, R2, m and n are as defined herein. Specifically, a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a neurodegenerative diseases caused by abnormal activity of GSK3? such as Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: The invention relates to use of substituted-pyrimidone derivatives represented by formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, n, p and q are as defined herein. More specifically, the invention relates to a medicament comprising the said derivative or a salt thereof as an active ingredient which is used for preventive and/or therapeutic treatment of a disease caused by abnormal activity of GSK3?, such as Pick's disease among various other diseases as claimed herein.