Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing or treating a cardiovascular disease.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for promoting angiogenesis, for controlling DNA synthesis of a cell, and for controlling chemotactic motility of a cell. The invention also relates to a method for treating ischemia diseases.

Abstract: A method for binding Lewis Y antigen of a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of nucleotide sequence encoding N-terminal lectin-like domain of thrombomodulin (TMD1), or its analogues; and a method of detecting cancer cells, Gram-negative bacteria or LPS which over-express the Lewis Y antigen in a sample from a subject.

Abstract: The present invention aims at converting factor IX into a molecule with enhanced activity which provides an alternative for replacement therapy and gene therapy for hemophilia B. Using recombinant techniques, factor IX having substitution of amino acid residue of SEQ ID NO: 7 at amino acid position selected from the group consisting of 86, 277, and 338 (exclude the circumstance of a single substitution at amino acid position 338) exhibits better clotting activity than recombinant wild type factor IX.

Abstract: The present invention aims at converting factor IX into a molecule with enhanced activity which provides an alternative for replacement therapy and gene therapy for hemophilia B. Using recombinant techniques, factor IX with replacement at positions 86, 277, and 338 exhibits better clotting activity than recombinant wild type factor IX.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for promoting angiogenesis, for controlling DNA synthesis of a cell, and for controlling chemotactic motility of a cell. The invention also relates to a method for treating ischemia diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-angiogenic protein comprising a mutant kringle 1-5 (K1-5) fragment of plasminogen, wherein a set of mutation position is selected from the group consisting of positions 227, 284 and 470 of SEQ ID NO. 6, and wherein the position 227 is replaced with an amino acid residue without forming glycosylation, the position 284 is replaced with an amino acid residue without forming glycosylation, and the position 470 is replaced with Arg. The present invention also provides a nucleic acid having a sequence encoding said anti-angiogenic protein. The invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting angiogenesis comprising said anti-angiogenic protein or said nucleic acid. The present invention also provides a method for treatment of an angiogenesis associated disease or disorder, comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment an effective amount of said pharmaceutical composition.

Abstract: The present invention aims at converting factor IX into a molecule with enhanced activity which provides an alternative for replacement therapy and gene therapy for hemophilia B. Using recombinant techniques, factor IX with replacement at positions 86, 277, and 338 exhibits better clotting activity than recombinant wild type factor IX.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing or treating a cardiovascular disease.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing bactericide or bacteriostatic, especially for treating disease due to bacterial infection. The method comprising administering a patient in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of dextromethorphan or naloxone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an analog thereof. The compound is applied to skin or mucosal surface of the patient. The invention also relates to a method of treating inflammation caused by suppressing secretion of TNF-?, IL-6, or MCP-1 from macrophage comprising administering a patient in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of NADPH oxidase inhibitor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, kits and treating methods for the alteration cell-cell adhesion, transport, or permeation properties of tissues. The present invention also relates to the application of drug(s) or peptide(s), compound or gene delivery, DNA or RNA(i), cosmetic or therapeutic use of the compositions and kits.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treatment of wound healing, comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment with an effective amount of a polypeptide comprising amino acid sequence or a conservative variant thereof having EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin. The invention also relates to a composition for the use of accelerating wound healing, comprising a polypeptide comprising amino acid sequence or a conservative variant thereof having EGF-like domain of thrombomodulin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for promoting angiogenesis, for controlling DNA synthesis of a cell, and for controlling chemotactic motility of a cell. The invention also relates to a method for treating ischemia diseases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, kits and treating methods for the alteration cell-cell adhesion, transport, or permeation properties of tissues. The present invention also relates to the application of drug(s) or peptide(s), compound or gene delivery, DNA or RNA(i), cosmetic or therapeutic use of the compositions and kits.

Abstract: Mutants of streptokinase in which one or more amino acid residues in the region of Pro58-Lys59-Ser60-Lys61 were replaced by other amino acids become better fibrinolytic agents. The mutants are resistant to the hydrolytic inactivation by plasmin and are more efficient in inducing fibrinolysis of plasma clots.

Abstract: Microplasmin and microplasminogen are plasmin and plasminogen derivatives produced by the action of plasmin non plasmin/plasminogen at high pH. The action of plasmin at this pH cleaves the heavy (A) chain of plasmin at the Arg.sub.529 - Lys.sub.503 or Lys.sub.530 -Leu.sub.531 bond and promotes disulfide bond rearrangement, producing microplasmin or microplasminogen consisting of a 30 or 31 residue C-terminal peptide derived from the A chain bound through new disulfide bonds to the intact B-chain of plasmin or plasminogen. The resulting products are significantly reduced in size and retain native activity.