Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Suntory Limited

Sun Chlorella Corp.

Tfb, Inc.

Hiroshige Itakura

Yuichi Ishikawa

Yasushi Saito

Yuji Matsuzawa

Masunori Matsuzaki

Hideki Origasa

Mitsuhiro Yokoyama

Kazuo Kondo

Toru Kita

Shinichi Oikawa

Akira Kitabatake

Kunio Shirato

Kazuyuki Shimada

Toshiie Sakata

Noriaki Nakaya

Hitoshi Hishida

Jun Sasaki

Masahiro Kimura

Hiroshi Tanahashi

Hirofumi Koda

Hiroo Yamamoto

Ryo Matoba

Tetsuaki Nakayama

Kazuaki Hosoda

A serum resistin level reducing agent that comprises a cell wall disrupted product of a, and that reduces a serum resistin level, as an agent for oral administration. A food or beverage composition for reducing a serum resistin level that comprises a cell wall disrupted product of a, and that reduces a serum resistin level. A method of reducing a serum resistin level by applying a cell wall disrupted product of a chlorella for oral administration. A use of a cell wall disrupted product of a chlorella for oral administration for reducing a serum resistin level.

Use of cell wall disrupted product of chlorella for reducing serum resistin level

Provided are composition and/or methods useful in preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events, especially in patients who have escaped the unstable period after cardiovascular angioplasty or in hyperlipidemia patients who have been treated with HMG-CoA RI.

Composition and/or method for preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events

A method for measuring antioxidant activity of test samples, which attains higher sensitivity than the conventional methods is disclosed. In the method of this invention, methemoglobin, an oxidizing agent which oxidizes methemoglobin, a coloring agent which generates color by reaction with methemoglobin in the presence of the oxidizing agent, and a test sample whose antioxidant activity is to be measured are reacted, and the generated color is measured.

Method for measuring antioxidant activities of samples and method for diagnosing diabetes or hyperlipidemia using the same

Described are a lipoprotein (a) lowering agent and a cholesterol lowering agent each comprising as an effective ingredient a proanthocyanidin contained in a grape extract or the like; and medicaments comprising the lowering agents, respectively.

Lipoprotein (a) lowering agent, cholesterol lowering agent and

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshige Itakura