Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

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Osaka Bioscience Institute

Takehiro Yatomi

Shigekazu Nagata

Takashi Suda

The present invention is drawn to methods of preventing and treating diseases wherein the involvement of apoptosis has been indicated.

Method of treating graft versus host disease by administration of a Fas antagonist

The present invention is drawn to a method for treating autoimmune demyelinating diseases by administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a Fas antagonist. The method of the present invention uses, for example, as a Fas antagonist a substance which suppresses Fas-Fas ligand binding.

Preventives/remedies for autoimmune demyelinating diseases

Preventives/remedies for at least one disease selected from the group consisting of inflammatory intestinal disease, ischemic colitis and idiopathic inflammatory intestinal disease induced by infection, chemicals and radiation which contain as the active ingredient an anti-Fas ligand antibody; and preventives and remedies with the use of the same.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takehiro Yatomi