Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation

Tanabe Seiyaku Company, Limited

Naoki Sakurai

Noriyuki Yanaka

Takashi Tamura

Toshiki Takagi

Yuji Horikiri

Masaharu Takigawa

Yuji Imai

Kenji Omori

Saburo Komatsubara

Hiroyuki Akatsuka

Eri Kawai

Makoto Masuda

Noriyuki 5-204 Gagara Daiichishokuinshuk Yanaka

A composition for regenerative treatment of cartilage disease, which comprises a PDE4 inhibitor as an active ingredient, specifically a composition comprising a PDE4 inhibitor and a biocompatible and biodegradable polymer is provided, which composition, when formulated into a form suited to administer locally to affected cartilage region, such as microsphere preparation, can provide a pharmaceutical composition showing an excellent effect in regenerative treatment of cartilage.

Composition for regenerative treatment of cartilage disease

A composition for accelerating fracture healing, which has a PDE4 inhibitor as an active ingredient, specifically a composition having a PDE4 inhibitor and a biocompatible and biodegradable polymer is provided, which composition, when formulated into a form suitable for local administration such as a microsphere preparation, can provide a pharmaceutical composition showing an excellent effect in the early healing of bone fracture. The composition is useful in healing of refractory fracture of elderly people and diabetic or osteoporosis patients.

Composition for accelerating bone fracture healing

The present invention is directed to a novel method of detecting a function or activity of a polypeptide which is related to bone metabolism, in particular, differentiation (maturation) of osteoblast or morphological change (retraction), specifically relating to a polypeptide which comprises an amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 4, an amino acid sequence in which one or several amino acids are deleted, substituted or added in the amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 4, or a polypeptide encoded by a nucleic acid which is capable of hybridizing under stringent condition with a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 3, or a complement sequence thereof.

Bone metabolism related protein and gene thereof

A microorganism derived from a host microorganism capable of producing d-biotin by introducing a recombinant plasmid being incorporated with a biotin gene cloned from a microorganism of the genus Serratia capable of producing d-biotin and further integrating an exogenous biotin gene into the chromosome, and a process for preparing d-biotin which comprises cultivating the microorganism in a culture medium so that d-biotin is formed and accumulated in the culture medium and collecting the d-biotin. The microorganism of the invention has an extremely high productivity of d-biotin, and hence, d-biotin can be produced in a large amount by cultivating the microorganism of the invention.

Microorganism and process for preparing D-biotin using the same

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Naoki Sakurai