Takara Bio Inc.

Takara Shuzo Co., Inc.

Suzu Deguchi

Ikunoshin Kato

Hiroaki Sagawa

Eiji Kobayashi

Eiji Nishiyama

Hiromu Ohnogi

Nobuto Koyama

Katsushige Ikai

Tatsuji Enoki

Akihiro Kondo

Hua-Kang Wu

Shigetoshi Mizutani

Masahiro Shiraga

Tuo-Ping Li

Motoko Ueda

To find a substance which has a skin cosmeticizing effect such as prevention of skin aging, amelioriation of sensitive skin, or antipruritic action, and can serve as an effective ingredient for a hair-care product, thereby providing cosmetics comprising the effective ingredient. Concretely, there are provided cosmetics characterized in that the cosmetics comprise as an effective ingredient a compound selected from a fucoidan, a degradation product thereof, a sulfated monosaccharide or a salt thereof.

Fucoidan-containing cosmetics

The present invention provides a therapeutic agent or prophylactic agent for a disease that requires enhancement of nerve growth factor production, an enhancer for nerve growth factor production, or a food, beverage or feed for enhancing nerve growth factor production, each comprising as an effective ingredient a specified compound or a salt thereof having enhancing activity for nerve growth factor production; a method for enhancing nerve growth factor production, comprising administering to a mammal the above-mentioned compound or a salt thereof; and use of the above-mentioned compound or a salt thereof in the preparation of a therapeutic agent or prophylactic agent for a disease that requires enhancement of nerve growth factor production, an enhancer for nerve growth factor production, or a food, beverage or feed for enhancing nerve growth factor production. In addition, the present invention provides novel compounds having enhancing activity for nerve growth factor production.

Remedies

Product of heat treatment of uronic acid, food, drink, or drug including the product

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Otsu, Japan

Suzu Deguchi