Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Director, Fruit Tree Research Foundation

Makoto Iwatsuki

Toshio Hayashi

Masao Honma

Shoji Murase

Toshihiko Yamazaki

Katsuyuki Suzuki

Mikio Kayama

Disclosed herein is a support for anastomosing or connecting living organs in a living body which comprises a material selected from the group consisting of monosaccharide, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide, a mixture thereof, and polyvinyl pyrrolidone. The support provided according to the present invention has high safety and adaptability to the living body and is quickly dissolved away in body fluid in the living body, so that it can serve as an excellent support for a living tissue or organ in an anastomosing or connecting operation in a living body. This support assures secure anastomosis or connection and facilitates the surgical operations therefore.

Support for anastomosing or connecting living organs

The present invention provides a novel adhesive which contains a mixture of human-fibrinogen and silk-fibroin and which is suitable especially for use in surgery. The mixing ratio of silk-fibroin to human-fibrinogen is 5 to 90, preferably 20 to 70% by weight.

Silk-fibroin and human-fibrinogen adhesive composition

Artificial hair comprising a polyamino acid having a degree of polymerization of 50-10,000, and having pendant mercapto or disulfide groups.

Artificial hair comprising poly alpha amino acid having pendant mercapto

A new flower-thinning agent is now provided, which is comprising as the active component 2-pyrrolidone-5-carboxylic acid, a salt thereof, a salt of an N-higher aliphatic acyl acidic amino acid, an ester of sugar with a higher fatty acid, or a plant sterol and advantageously exerts the flower-thinning effects superior to the known flower-thinning agents.

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Yokosuka, Japan

Makoto Iwatsuki