Cci Corporation

Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corporation

Kataoka Corporation

Toshikazu Yoshikawa

Hironobu Murase

Norimasa Yoshida

Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Ping Dai

Yoshinori Harada

Yuta Murakami

The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a method for producing brown adipocytes, osteoblasts, cartilage cells, neural cells, or cardiac cells from somatic cells without performing artificial gene transfer; brown adipocytes, osteoblasts, cartilage cells, neural cells, or cardiac cells; or a composition including a combination of chemical substances that can be used for the aforementioned production method. An example of the present invention is a method for producing brown adipocytes, osteoblasts, cartilage cells, neural cells, or cardiac cells including a step for culturing somatic cells in the presence or absence of an inhibitor or activator selected from the group consisting of an ALK5 inhibitor, an ALK6 inhibitor, an AMPK inhibitor, a cAMP activator, an ALK2 inhibitor, an ALK3 inhibitor, a GSK3 inhibitor, and an Erk inhibitor.

Method for producing somatic cell, somatic cell, and composition

Agent for preventing and curing hindrance of ischemic reperfusion

A preventive and curative agent for inflammatory bowel diseases is disclosed which has as an active ingredient thereof a chromanol glucoside represented by the following general formula (1)

Methods for the prevention or treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases

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Kyoto, Japan

Toshikazu Yoshikawa