Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc.

Kazuo Hino

Eiji Sakashita

Kaneji Asakawa

Tetsuya Tachikawa

Naoyuki Endo

Takashi Komai

Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi

Sadahito Shin

Hisanobu Hirano

Sho Miyatake

Ryoichi Umemoto

It is an object of the present invention to provide a nutritional composition for preventing diarrhea enabling ingestion or administration of nutritional ingredients while effectively preventing diarrhea, and is capable of stably keeping the viscosity when stored in a liquid form. A nutritional composition that is prepared by selecting a pectin having a degree of esterification of 10 to 30%, a degree of amidation of 0 to 25%, and a degree of free acids of 64% or more and less than 85% among pectins, and mixing the selected pectin with lipid, carbohydrate and protein, enables ingestion or administration of nutritional ingredients while effectively preventing diarrhea, and is capable of stably keeping the viscosity when stored in a liquid form.

Diarrhea-preventing nutritional composition

The invention provides an anti-EDA monoclonal antibody which recognizes an amino acid sequence portion in the EDA region of fibronectin (FN). The antibody of the invention has specific reactivity against EDA, in particular EDA-FN. By utilizing it, a simple and easy, high-sensitivity and high-precision immunoassay method for EDA-FN as well as a screening or diagnostic technique for EDA-FN-associated inflammatory and other diseases can be established.

Anti-EDA monoclonal antibody and a method for diagnosis of disease

Adsorbent for cellular fibronectin and a method for fractional

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Tokushima, Japan

Kazuo Hino