Abstract: A field effect transistor and a sensor using the field effect transistor is provided. The field effect transistor can be manufactured so as to have uniform properties by simple steps at low costs, and can stably detect, when used as a sensor, a very small amount of analyte with a high sensitivity while the properties are hardly deteriorated. A channel of the field effect transistor is constituted by a single-walled carbon nanotube thin film that is grown, by a chemical vapor deposition method, using particles of a nonmetallic material as growth nuclei, the nonmetallic material containing 500 mass ppm or less metallic impurities that contain a metal and its compounds.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a heat therapy kit for malignant tumor treatment that comprises a pharmaceutical agent containing anti-regulatory T cell antibody and a pharmaceutical agent containing magnetic fine particles, and a heat therapy method that uses that kit.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a heat therapy kit for malignant tumor treatment that comprises a pharmaceutical agent containing anti-regulatory T cell antibody and a pharmaceutical agent containing magnetic fine particles, and a heat therapy method that uses that kit.

Abstract: A novel cystacycline derivative which has an excellent effect of promoting the differentiation of neurons and is useful as a remedy for central nervous system disorders, a remedy for peripheral nerve disorders, etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by the following general formula (1) ##STR1## (wherein X represents O, S, SO, SO.sub.2, or NH, Y is a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon residue containing 1 through 6 carbon atoms and having an overall molecular weight of not less than 15 and not more than 400, and the hydrocarbon residue, when the residue is ring, may contain one or two hetero-atoms in the ring, and Z is a carboxyl group, a group derived therefrom or an aliphatic hydrocarbon residue having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may be substituted or unsabstituted) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof (excluding (1R,2S)-2-[(2R)-(2-acetyl-amino-2-carboxyethyl)thiomethyl]-3-oxo-1-cyclope ntane-carboxylic acid (cystacyclin)), a method for production thereof and a medicinal use thereof. The compound of the present invention is useful as a neuron differentiation accelerator.

Abstract: A nerve cell differentiation promoter which comprises a physiologically active substance NK175203 or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient is provided. It is expected that the nerve cell differentiation promoter of the present invention is applicable to a medicine for dementia, a nerve cell protective medicine or a medicine for peripheral neuropathy caused by anticancer agents.

Abstract: Physiologically active substance NK175203 is produced by culturing bacteria belonging to the genus Streptomyces and capable of producing the physiologically active substance NK175203, and collecting the produced and accumulated substance. The physiologically active substance NK175203 is useful as an effective ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for promoting proliferation of bone marrow cells.

Abstract: Novel antibiotics NK374186A, NK374186B, NK374186B3 and NK374186C3 having antibacterial, antineoplastic, immunomodulation, and liver regeneration promoting activities are provided.NK374186A, NK374186B, NK374186B3 and NK374186C3 are obtained by culturing NK374186 strain (FERM P-12285) (FERM-BP 3870) belonging to the genus Penicillium. NK374186A is a compound represented by a rational formula of C.sub.34 H.sub.61 N.sub.3 O.sub.12 S.sub.9 and having a molecular weight of M+ 735 (FD-MS m/z); NK374186B is a compound represented by a rational formula of C.sub.34 H.sub.61 N.sub.3 O.sub.9 and having a molecular weight of M+ 655 (FD-MS m/z); NK374186B3 is a compound represented by a rational formula of C.sub.34 H.sub.61 N.sub.3 O.sub.9 and having a molecular weight of M+ 655 (FD-MS m/z); and NK374186C3 is a compound represented by a rational formula of C.sub.32 H.sub.59 N.sub.3 O.sub.7 and having a molecular weight of M+ 597 (FD-MS m/z).