Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Masami Isaka

Hisao Kasuga

Takahito Kitayoshi

Kunio Matsuoka

The transgenic animal of this invention can be used as an animal model for renal disease, bone disease, joint disease, pulmonary disease, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, cardiac disease, diabetes, obesity, digestive organ disease, infectious disease, allergic disease, endocrine disease, dementia or cancer, or complications thereof; and provides a nonhuman transgenic mammal for the unraveling of the mechanisms of said diseases, explorations for the development of therapeutic modalities for the diseases, and the screening of candidate therapeutic drugs.

25-hydroxyvitamin D3 24-hydroylase transgenic rats

Provided is a non-human animal in which an exogeneous gene, a mutant gene thereof of a monocyte chemoattractant protein and/or a receptor thereof is introduced. The present transgenic animals can be utilized as a pathologic model animal for heart diseases, respiratory diseases, joint diseases, kidney diseases, arteriosclerosis, psoriasis, hyperlipidemia, allergic diseases, bone diseases, blood diseases, cerebrovascular disorders, traumatic cerebral disorders, infections diseases, demantia or chroric inflammatory diseases etc. Thus, it is possible to elucidate the mechanism of pathogenesis of these diseases, to determine therapies, and to screen for candidate compounds for the purpose of research and development of therapeutic drugs.

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Masami Isaka