Abstract: Provided is a peptide having a short chain length, for example, having the number of amino acid residues of 20 or less and having a high myostatin inhibitory activity. The present invention is a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence represented by Formula (1) in the specification and having the number of amino acid residues of 20 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a peptide having a short chain length, for example, having the number of amino acid residues of 20 or less and having a high myostatin inhibitory activity. The present invention is a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence represented by Formula (1) in the specification and having the number of amino acid residues of 20 or less.

Abstract: Heat pump type heating apparatus capable of performing a continuous dual-stage operation without stopping a high stage side compressor even when a return temperature of a heating medium reaches a prescribed high temperature and, thereby, improving a sense of being insufficiently warmed due to stoppage of the high stage side compressor or a sense of being insufficiently warmed due to execution of frequent defrosting operations. The heat pump type heating apparatus includes an internal heat exchanger (a second internal heat exchanger) that performs heat exchange between a low-temperature refrigerant on a low-pressure side of a low stage side refrigeration circuit and a high-temperature refrigerant on a high-pressure side of a high stage side refrigerant circuit, a bypass pipe bypassing the internal heat exchanger, and flow path control means that controls a refrigerant flow to each of the internal heat exchanger and the bypass pipe.

Abstract: Heat pump type heating apparatus capable of performing a continuous dual-stage operation without stopping a high stage side compressor even when a return temperature of a heating medium reaches a prescribed high temperature and, thereby, improving a sense of being insufficiently warmed due to stoppage of the high stage side compressor or a sense of being insufficiently warmed due to execution of frequent defrosting operations. The heat pump type heating apparatus includes an internal heat exchanger (a second internal heat exchanger) that performs heat exchange between a low-temperature refrigerant on a low-pressure side of a low stage side refrigeration circuit and a high-temperature refrigerant on a high-pressure side of a high stage side refrigerant circuit, a bypass pipe bypassing the internal heat exchanger, and flow path control means that controls a refrigerant flow to each of the internal heat exchanger and the bypass pipe.

Abstract: To provide a technology for introducing a PMO with remarkably enhanced cell permeability, leading to significantly enhanced introduction efficiency to thereby provide a therapeutic drug that dramatically ameliorates a medical condition of DMD. Also provided is a therapeutic drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including as an active ingredient a Bubble liposome having a specific morpholino oligomer (PMO) bound to a surface thereof, in which the PMO is introduced into a muscle fiber (muscle cell) of a muscle tissue with high efficiency by administration of the therapeutic drug into the muscle tissue or into a blood vessel followed by ultrasound irradiation to the muscle tissue transcutaneously.

Abstract: To provide a technology for introducing a PMO with remarkably enhanced cell permeability, leading to significantly enhanced introduction efficiency to thereby provide a therapeutic drug that dramatically ameliorates a medical condition of DMD. Also provided is a therapeutic drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including as an active ingredient a Bubble liposome having a specific morpholino oligomer (PMO) bound to a surface thereof, in which the PMO is introduced into a muscle fiber (muscle cell) of a muscle tissue with high efficiency by administration of the therapeutic drug into the muscle tissue or into a blood vessel followed by ultrasound irradiation to the muscle tissue transcutaneously.

Abstract: A microcellular portable telephone displays one's location, data on the location of the base station and, a data table showing the interrelation between the base station identifier code and base station location data. Pressing a specified operating key converts the base station identifier code connected to the portable telephone into data on the location of the base station by referring to the data table. The location of the base station is shown on the display device by means of the converted data.