Konami Corporation

Konami Co., Ltd.

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Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Daiichi Pure Chemicals Co., Ltd.

Saitama Medical University

Nobuhiro Yamada

Hiroyuki Ebinuma

Muneo Yamada

Kazunori Saito

Fumimaro Takaku

Hideo Toyoshima

Nobuya Yanai

Takuji Kawashima

Yuji Yoshikawa

Shinya Suzu

Hajime Yokota

Tomotaka Yokoo

Kazuo Motoyoshi

Takuri Chida

Hirohito Sone

Katsuo Yoshida

Kunio Ujiie

Disclosed are: an insulin secretion inducer; an insulin secretion-inducing composition; a process for the production of the composition; an accelerator for increasing the number of pancreatic &#x3b2;-cells; a composition for increasing the number of pancreatic &#x3b2;-cells; a process for the production of the composition; and a viral vector for gene therapy. The insulin secretion inducer or the accelerator for increasing the number of pancreatic &#x3b2;-cells comprises a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence encoded by DNA that is known to encode a membrane protein Tm4sf20 (transmembrane 4 L six family member 20) or the like or a fragment of the polypeptide as an active ingredient.

Method of treatment of diabestes or reduction in pancreatic beta-cells

Game software for raising interest on a card game by adding an unexpected element thereto without losing fun of thinking out a strategy. After determining an appearing face of a dice by a procedure of determining face in a turn for a player, a card attached to the determined face, which was selected from a hand by the player is determined as a battle card by a procedure of processing card battle. Offense/defense data of the battle card is read out so as to judge an outcome of the battle cards. The player is invited to freely select the card to be attached to each face of the dice from the hand, and the dice card corresponding to an appearing face is used as the battle card.

Game software and game machine

Game program has a procedure for determining item price (IVD), for respectively computing price for transfer of a plurality of items to be used in a game every each item, and a procedure for executing the procedure for determining item price when possession state of the item is likely to be changed in the game, and the procedure for determining item price has a procedure for computing price for transfer of the item on the basis of individual data concerning each item and for displaying the computed price. The price for transfer of the item is determined and shown, changed by the individual data concerning each item, so that the player can buy or sell the item with reality similar to economical activities in the actual world.

Game program and game apparatus

The present invention provides a screening method by which a prediabetic state can be more accurately determined and many test samples can be treated without physical burden on patients, and a diagnostic reagent used for it. By measuring a D-mannose concentration, preferably a D-mannose concentration and a glucose concentration, in a body fluid collected from a subject, and comparing them with their respective standard values, a patient in a prediabetic state can be detected. Further, the measurement of the mannose concentration is conducted by allowing an enzyme having an oxidizing activity on mannose by dehydrogenation to react on the mannose in a sample in the presence of an electron acceptor, and quantitatively determining the formed reductant of the electron acceptor.

Method of screening methods prediabetic state and screening reagent

A software product and a video game device for virtually performing a card game like a trading card game. Cards of the card game are given parameters each of which shows ability point or property of the card. When a player designates a first card to present it on a field (or &ldquo;summon&rdquo; the first card), an index parameter given to the card is compared with a threshold. If the index parameter is over the threshold, the player must &ldquo;sacrifice&rdquo; some cards from cards currently presented on the field in order to &ldquo;summon&rdquo; the first card.

Software product and video game device for performing a card game on a virtual field

To suppress monotony experienced while playing a card game, a CPU ( ) loads card information items recorded in a cassette ( ) into a baggage region ( ), and then, only card information item/items assigned a read enable flag of &ldquo;1&rdquo; from among the card information items loaded in the baggage region ( ) is/are loaded into a deck region ( ) which stores card information items capable of being laid in a game screen (step S ).

Game machine, method of controlling operation of the game machine, and computer readable medium having recorded thereon operation control program for controlling the game machine

In a storage medium storing a program, a storage device and a game device, a card game having rich variety can be implemented by determining win or loss on the basis of various judgement criteria. The cards used in the card game are divided into a plurality of groups which have continuous, cyclical strength differential relationships between the respective groups. The card game does not depend solely on the capability index of each card. Moreover, a variation of the card game can be increased by preparing trap cards which impart various functions and actions on the opponent's cards. Moreover, by including field card representing competition environments and causing the capability indices creature cards to vary according to the competition environment, a more interesting card game can be enjoyed by the game device.

Game device and method for implementing a screen-displayed card game

In a game system for use in a card game by using a plurality of cards which individually have predetermined ability points, a plurality of competition environments are prepared to change the ability points from one to another at every one of the competition environments. Each of the competition environments is determined by a field card. To this end, the game system has a storage device which stores the ability points varied in dependency upon the competition environments. The ability points of each card is stored as attack and defense ability points different from each other and varied by the competition environments. Any other cards, such as magic cards, trap cards, may be prepared.

Game system, computer-readable storage medium, and storage device for use in a card game

A game system comprises a first storing device storing data for identifying strength and weakness of characters belonging to a player and an opponent; a first display control device for displaying a first game picture which expresses a state of a competitive game in which the player and the opponent compete by using the characters; an outcome determining device for determining an outcome of the competitive game based on the data stored in the first storing device; a second storing device storing data for identifying, with respect to a plurality of areas defined by dividing a predetermined field into a matrix, that each of the areas belongs to a territory of the player or the opponent; a second display control device for displaying a second game picture, on which the field is expressed in such a manner that the territory belonging to the player can be differentiated from the territory belonging to the opponent, based on the data stored in the second storing device; and a data updating device for changing the data in the second storing device so that, when the player won the competitive game, there is a first change relating to the win, in that the territory belonging to the player increases, and in addition, there is a second change relating to the increase of the territory, in that at least one of the areas which is in a predetermined positional relationship with an increased part of the territory by the first change and an acquired part of the territory already belonging to the player is switched to the territory belonging to the player. Therefore, the game system prevents difficulty in determining the outcome of the game, while eliminating monotony thereof.

Game system and computer-readable recording medium used in the same

Human M-CSF preparations and recombinant human M-CSF preparations against myelodysplastic syndrome, malignant tumor and hyperlipemia and auxiliary therapeutic preparations to be dosed along with platinum-complex anticancer preparations.

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Tokyo, Japan

Nobuhiro Yamada