Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe

Kaneka Corporation

Hokkaido University

National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

Hyogo College of Medicine

Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation

Akihiko Taguchi

Kenichi Yamahara

Akira Kobayashi

Toshihiro Soma

Shunsuke Ohnishi

Masafumi Ihara

Takakuni Maki

Yukiko Niino

The present invention provides a sufficiently effective medicine for treatment and/or prevention of ischemic diseases, without performing isolation of therapeutic cells or removal of deleterious cells from blood cells/hemocytes. The blood cells and/or the hemocytes are subjected to the action of a saccharide. The saccharide is a monosaccharide, a disaccharide, a trisaccharide, a polysaccharides, or a copolymer containing a monosaccharide, a disaccharide, or a trisaccharide as a component. The saccharide is a copolymer of sucrose and epichlorohydrin.

Medicine for treatment and/or prevention of ischemic diseases, method for improving angiogenesis-promoting activity of cells, or method for producing medicine

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a mesenchymal stromal cell composition, comprising conveniently and aseptically separating high-purity amnion-derived MSCs by performing enzyme treatment only once. According to the present invention, the following are provided: a method for producing a mesenchymal stromal cell composition, comprising: performing enzyme treatment of an amnion with collagenase and thermolysin and/or dispase; and filtering the enzyme-treated amnion through a mesh; a method for producing a cryopreserved mesenchymal stromal cell composition; and a therapeutic agent comprising as an active ingredient the mesenchymal stromal cell composition for a disease selected from graft-versus-host disease, inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, liver cirrhosis, or radiation enteritis.

Method for producing amniotic mesenchymal stromal cell composition, method for cryopreserving the same, and therapeutic agent

Provided is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic drug for mild cognitive impairment, which can improve interstitial flow in cerebral blood vessel and the like to achieve sufficient clearance of harmful proteins accumulated in the brain. The prophylactic and/or therapeutic drug includes 6-[4-(1-cyclohexyl-1H-tetrazole-5-yl)butoxy]3,4-dihydrocarbostyril or a salt thereof as an active ingredient. The prophylactic and/or therapeutic drug can improve a flow of interstitial fluid around blood vessels in a drainage pathway to excrete harmful proteins. The prophylactic and/or therapeutic drug for mild cognitive impairment may take the form of a pharmaceutical product for oral administration, a liquid pharmaceutical product for oral administration, or an injectable preparation. The prophylactic and/or therapeutic drug for mild cognitive impairment can be used for the prevention and/or treatment of cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and can also be used for improvement of Lewy body disease, Down's syndrome, or macular degeneration.

Method for improving interstitial flow

Prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for mild cognitive impairment

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Kobe, Japan

Akihiko Taguchi