Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that can effectively improve melasma and a composition that can effectively reduce skin dullness. The composition for improving melasma comprises a purine nucleic acid-related substance and a pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable carrier, and exhibits an excellent melasma improving effect due to the action of the purine nucleic acid-related substance contained. The composition for reducing skin dullness comprises a purine nucleic acid-related substance and a pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable carrier, and exhibits an excellent effect of reducing skin dullness due to the action of the purine nucleic acid-related substance contained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that can effectively improve melasma and a composition that can effectively reduce skin dullness. The composition for improving melasma comprises a purine nucleic acid-related substance and a pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable carrier, and exhibits an excellent melasma improving effect due to the action of the purine nucleic acid-related substance contained. The composition for reducing skin dullness comprises a purine nucleic acid-related substance and a pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable carrier, and exhibits an excellent effect of reducing skin dullness due to the action of the purine nucleic acid-related substance contained.

Abstract: A container having a plurality of chambers chiefly for use in the field of medicine. The body of the container is made of flexible plastics and has partition means dividing the container body into the chambers and permitting communication between the chambers when required. The container body comprises container portions forming the plurality of chambers and including at least one container portion having no cover and at least one container portion having a cover. The cover encloses the container portion therewith to form a closed space therein around the container portion and is made of a flexible film having barrier properties against moisture and gas. At least one of a desiccant and an oxygen absorber can accommodated in the closes space. The container is inexpensive, has high quality and is efficient to use and easy to dispose of.

Abstract: A process for preparing rubber modified high impact resins by dissolving a rubbery polymer in a monomer containing an aromatic vinyl monomer or a mixture of an aromatic vinyl monomer and a vinyl cyanide monomer followed by polymerizing the monomer, the two steps being carried out in at least two polymerization reactors with a particle disperser placed between the first and second reactors. High impact resins having excellent surface properties are obtained with a savings in a power consumption by controlling:(1) the relationship between the concentration of the polymerized monomer and the content of the rubbery polymer in the first reactor;(2) the relationship between the volume occupied by the polymerizing liquid in the first reactor and the inner volume of the particle disperser; and(3) the peripheral linear velocity of a shearing stirrer in the particle disperser.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rubber-modified styrene copolymer which contains as an impact strength modifier a rubbery polymer having a viscosity of 2-250 centipoises as measured at 25.degree. C. as a 5 wt. % styrene solution and a styrene insoluble content lower than 0.1 wt. %, produced by anionic polymerization and dispersed in a continuous phase of a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer. The rubbery polymer contains small particles of the same styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer occluded in the form of cells. The areas of particles in each of which the maximum cell diameter is smaller than 0.1 .mu.m are at least 40% of the area of all the particles of the rubbery polymer and the volume average particle size of these particles is 0.1-0.4 .mu.m. The weight ratio of the monomers in the styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer is 90/10.gtoreq.styrene/acrylonitrile.gtoreq.55/45. Per 100 parts by weight of the copolymer, the proportions of polymers having a molecular weight greater than 1,000,000 is smaller than 0.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for continuously producing rubber modified styrene resins wherein the rubbery phase including a rubber-like polymer is transformed into dispersed particles by using a reactor having both a helical-blade agitator mounted in a draft tube and an auxiliary agitator, by establishing a specified agitating force and a specified degree of circulation of the fluid within the reactor, and by maintaining a specified relation between the weight percentages, based on the total amount of all components within the reactor, of the rubber-like polymer and the monomer converted to polymer. According to this process, various grades of high-impact rubber modified styrene resins having excellent surface properties can be obtained without any adhesion of rubber-like matter to the reactor and without any formation of fisheyes in final products.