Astellas Pharma Gmbh

Hiromi Nara

Yoshinori Ishii

Shigenori Yagi

Masazumi Kamohara

Provided is an anti-human Tie2 antibody for preventing or treating diabetic macular edema, diabetic retinopathy, and critical limb ischemia by binding to a human Tie2 to activate the human Tie2. The present inventors have conducted investigations on an anti-human Tie2 antibody, and have thus provided an anti-human Tie2 antibody comprising four heavy chain variable regions and four light chain variable regions, in which the heavy chain variable region consists of the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 1 to 122 of SEQ ID NO: 2, the light chain variable region consists of the amino acid sequence of the amino acid numbers 1 to 113 of SEQ ID NO: 4, the one heavy chain variable region and the one light chain variable region constitute one antigen-binding site, and the antibody comprises four antigen-binding sites.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiromi Nara