Patents by Inventor Chikara Ebisui

Chikara Ebisui has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for inhibiting muscle protein proteolysis with antibodies to interleukin-6 receptor
    Patent number: 6261560
    Abstract: The present invention provides a muscle protein proteolysis inhibiting agent comprising antibody to Interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R antibody). Antibodies of animals other than humans such as mice and rats, chimeric antibodies of these antibodies with human antibodies, and reshaped human antibodies and so forth can be used for the IL-6R antibody. The muscle protein proteolysis inhibiting agent of the present invention is useful in the inhibition of muscle protein proteolysis observed in diseases such as cancerous cachexia, sepsis, serious trauma or muscular dystrophy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimasa Tsujinaka, Chikara Ebisui, Junya Fujita