Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a container holder with which it is possible to hold a container in a non-tilted manner and which has a draft angle for smoothly extracting a die used when manufacturing the container holder through injection-molding. A hole in which the container holder according to the present invention accommodates a container has a first wall section and a second wall section, the first wall section having a shape such that the hole widens from an opening section toward a bottom section, and the second wall section having a shape such that the hole widens from the bottom section toward the opening section (refer to FIG. 4).

Abstract: An antipruritic against pruritus caused by multiple sclerosis is disclosed.

Abstract: An antipruritic against pruritus caused by multiple sclerosis is disclosed.

Abstract: A statistics system stores inputted statistical target information into storage. When each unit time period defined in a statistical calculation rule expires, the statistics system reads all pieces of statistical target information whose occurrence times are contained in the unit time period from storage, executes statistical calculation, and registers the statistical result to the statistical information in storage. When statistical target information is inputted, the statistics system sets a re-calculation flag to a unit time period including the occurrence time shown by the statistical target information among the respective unit time periods whose statistical results are registered in the statistical information.

Abstract: A statistics system stores inputted statistical target information into storage. When each unit time period defined in a statistical calculation rule expires, the statistics system reads all pieces of statistical target information whose occurrence times are contained in the unit time period from the storage, executes statistical calculation, and registers the statistical result to the statistical information in the storage. When statistical target information is inputted, the statistics system sets a re-calculation flag to a unit time period including the occurrence time shown by the statistical target information among the respective unit time periods whose statistical results are registered in the statistical information.

Abstract: Whey protein is hydrolyzed with hydrolase so that a rate of hydrolysis is preferably 20 to 30%. A fraction, which has molecular weights above 10,000 daltons, is removed from a resultant hydrolysate by means of an ultrafiltration method to obtain a whey protein hydrolysate which is used as an active ingredient of an interleukin-18 inducer.

Abstract: A cheese production process of the present invention includes stretching cheese curds in hot water and contacting the cheese curds and a texture modifier capable of binding or adsorbing calcium either before or simultaneously with the stretching so as to enable the obtaining of cheese having a preferable rice cake-like elastic texture by improving the gum-like adhesive texture, hard rubber-like chewiness, and residual particles in the mouth when eating after baking, of cheese that is produced by going through a step of stretching cheese curds in hot water.

Abstract: A peptide Met-Lys-Pro, which is obtained by chemical synthesis ot hydrolysis of casein, is used as the active ingredient of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or hypotensive drugs.

Abstract: A protein hydrolysate comprising at least two types of peptides, characterized in that the rate of hydrolysis of protein is from 30 to 45%, the number average molecular weight is 300 or less, and the ratio of a weight average molecular weight to the number average molecular weight is greater than 1 and 2 or less, has excellent emulsifiability, and antigenicity thereof is low enough to be used for people who has predisposition to allergic diseases. This protein hydrolysate is obtained by hydrolysis of a protein starting material to a rate of hydrolysis in the range of 30 to 45%, and then bringing it into contact simultaneously or separately with two types of porous synthetic adsorbent respectively having an average pore radius of 2 to 8 nm and an average pore radius of 20 to 30 nm, the total surface area of the two porous synthetic adsorbents being in a range of 300 to 3000 m2 per 1 g (protein equivalent) of the obtained protein hydrolysate, and recovering the non-adsorbed component.

Abstract: A peptide Met-Lys-Pro, which is obtained by chemical synthesis ot hydrolysis of casein, is used as the active ingredient of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or hypotensive drugs.

Abstract: Whey protein is hydrolyzed with hydrolase so that a rate of hydrolysis is preferably 20 to 30%. A fraction, which has molecular weights above 10,000 daltons, is removed from a resultant hydrolysate by means of an ultrafiltration method to obtain a whey protein hydrolysate which is used as an active ingredient of an interleukin-18 inducer.

Abstract: A protein hydrolysate comprising at least two types of peptides, characterized in that the rate of hydrolysis of protein is from 30 to 45%, the number average molecular weight is 300 or less, and the ratio of a weight average molecular weight to the number average molecular weight is greater than 1 and 2 or less, has excellent emulsifiability, and antigenicity thereof is low enough to be used for people who has predisposition to allergic diseases. This protein hydrolysate is obtained by hydrolysis of a protein starting material to a rate of hydrolysis in the range of 30 to 45%, and then bringing it into contact simultaneously or separately with two types of porous synthetic adsorbent respectively having an average pore radius of 2 to 8 nm and an average pore radius of 20 to 30 nm, the total surface area of the two porous synthetic adsorbents being in a range of 300 to 3000 m2 per 1 g (protein equivalent) of the obtained protein hydrolysate, and recovering the non-adsorbed component.

Abstract: A method for producing a peptide mixture from a starting protein by (1) adding at least one protease to an aqueous solution of at least one starting protein to hydrolyse the starting protein, (2) measuring the amount of a free amino acid selected from the group consisting of lysine, phenylalanine, leucine and arginine produced during the hydrolysis of the starting protein, (3) calculating the amount of the free amino acid with respect to the total amount of amino acid contained in the starting protein, and (4) terminating the hydrolysis when the calculated amount of the free amino acid with respect to the total amount of the amino acid contained in the starting protein falls within a predetermined range. The inventive method provides a starting protein hydrolysate of uniform and consistent quality.

Abstract: Fine granular feeds for fry of fishes and shellfishes capable of remarkably elevating the survival rate of fry, improving the cultivation efficiency, and causing little elution of nitrogen sources therefrom into seawater or water in feeding, which are characterized by containing at least three active components, i.e., (a) a long-chain unsaturated fatty acid calcium salt blend comprising 80% by weight or more of long-chain unsaturated fatty acid calcium salt(s) having at least 18 carbon atoms, (b) 20% by weight or less of a browned matter formed by heating molasses or saccharides, a browned matter formed by heating saccharides with amino acids or a mixture thereof at an arbitrary ratio, and (c) a mixture of peptides obtained by hydrolyzing animal protein, and being in the form of fine grains.

Abstract: A method for producing a peptide mixture from whey protein by (1) adding at least one protease to an aqueous solution of at least one whey protein to hydrolyze the whey protein, (2) measuring the amount of a free amino acid selected from the group consisting of lysine, phenylalanine, leucine and arginine produced during the hydrolysis of the whey protein, (3) calculating the amount of the free amino acid with respect to the total amount of the amino acid contained in the whey protein, and (4) terminating the hydrolysis when the calculated amount of the free amino acid with respect to the total amount of the amino acid contained in the whey protein falls within a predetermined range. The inventive method provides a whey protein hydrolysate of consistent quality.

Abstract: Lactoferrin hydrolyzates, having a decomposition rate between 6%-20% as measured by formol titration, for use as an antibacterial agent, and which have remarkably more potent activity than unhydrolyzed lactoferrin; and lactoferrin hydrolyzates, having a decomposition rate between 4-50% as measured by formol titration, for use as a tyrosinase inhibition agent, are obtainable by conventional methods for hydrolysis with acids or enzymes, and are stable to heating.

Abstract: A method for treatment of a matter which contains moisturized or liquified lactoferrin which has been isolated from mammalian milk, processed mammalian milk and by-products in mammalian milk-processing, without losing the physiological activities of lactoferrin, which comprises adjusting pH of said moisturized or liquefied lactoferrin contained in said matter within an acidic range between 2.0 and 6.0 both inclusive by adding acid or aqueous solution of acid when the pH of said moisturized or liquefied lactoferrin is out of said pH range, and heating said matter in the range from 60.degree. C. to 130.degree. C. for a span of time which may assure 60% or more of undenaturization rate of lactoferrin.

Abstract: Bioactive agents, having growth-promoting activity upon Bifidobacteria, consisting of one or more lactoferrin-compounds selected from the group consisting of bovine lactoferrin, bovine apolactoferrin and bovine Fe-lactoferrin, which can be used as it is as agents to promote proliferation of Bifidobacteria both in vivo and in vitro, and as additives to prepare compositions, materials and products to afford growth-promoting activity thereto, and to improve survivability of Bifidobacteria, if contained therein.

Abstract: Bioactive agents consisting of one or more lactoferrin-compounds selected from the group consisting of Zn-, Cu- and Mn-lactoferrin and having selective biological activities, i.e. growth-inhibitory activity against certain harmful microorganisms on one hand and growth-promoting activity upon certain useful microorganisms on the other hand; as well as compositions, products or materials therefor comprising the bioactive agents consisting of one or more lactoferrin-compounds selected from the group; and a method for treating materials, which are edible for human beings or animals or which are applicable to a portion of body of human beings or animals, with the bioactive agents consisting of one or more lactoferrin-compounds selected from the group consisting of Zn-, Cu- and Mn-lactoferrin or the compositions comprising the bioactive agent consisting of one or more lactoferrin-compounds selected from the group consisting of Zn-, Cu- and Mn-lactoferrin as an effective component.

Abstract: An agent for tyrosinase inhibition which contains the effective quantity of enzymatic hydrolyzates of milk proteins, having a decomposition rate from 6% to 55% as expressed by the percentage of formol nitrogen to total nitrogen.