Anges Mg, Inc.

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Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Company Limited

Toshio Ogihara

Ryuichi Morishita

Motokuni Aoki

Toshikazu Nakamura

Yasufumi Kaneda

Takahiro Ochi

Tomio Kawasaki

Tetsuya Tomita

Takashi Miyake

Yoshiaki Taniyama

Seiji Yamamoto

Hiroshige Nakamura

Kazuya Hiraoka

A pharmaceutical composition for performing treatment against a skin disease, the pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one decoy and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The at least one decoy may be selected from the group consisting of an NF-&#x3ba;B decoy, a STAT-1 decoy, a GATA-3 decoy, a STAT-6 decoy, an AP-1 decoy and an Ets decoy. The at least one decoy may be an oligonucleotide including at least two decoys bonded to each other, the at least two decoys being selected from the group consisting of an NF-&#x3ba;B decoy, a STAT-1 decoy, a GATA-3 decoy, a STAT-6 decoy, an AP-1 decoy and an Ets decoy. The skin disease may be atopic dermatitis, psoriasis vulgaris, contact dermatitis, keloid, bedsore, ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's disease.

Topical administration of NF-kappaB decoy to treat atopic dermatitis

The present invention provides a prophylactic, ameliorative or therapeutic medicament for vascular restenosis, ischemic disease, allergic disease, inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, or cancer metastasis, invasion (cancer metastasis/invasion) or cachexia based on the inhibitory action on a plural of transcriptional regulatory factor. A chimera (double) decoy of the present invention has plural transcriptional regulatory factor binding sequences in a single molecule thereof. Thus, it is able to inhibit the activity of plural transcriptional regulatory factors with a single molecule. For example, stenosis of an anastomosed site of an artificial blood vessel is caused by thickening of the vascular intima, and this is mainly caused by activation of cell proliferation by an inflammatory reaction occurring at the anastomosed site. Thus, thickening of vessel walls can be inhibited by simultaneously inhibiting two transcriptional regulatory factors involved in inflammation and cell proliferation by using the chimera decoy of the present invention.

Chimera (double) decoy

A pharmaceutical composition is provided for treatment and prevention of a disease caused by expression of a gene controlled by NF-&#x3ba;B or ets. The composition comprises at least one decoy and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The decoy is an NF-&#x3ba;B decoy, an ets decoy, or a chimera decoy of NF-&#x3ba;B and ets. The disease is cerebral aneurysm, cancer, Marfan's syndrome, aortic detachment, post-angioplasty restenosis, chronic articular rheumatism, asthma, atopic dermatitis, nephritis, renal failure, or plaque rupture. The pharmaceutically acceptable carrier may be a hydrophilic polymer.

Decoy-containing pharmaceutical compositions and method of using the same

The present invention relates to a medicament comprising a HGF gene. The medicament of the present invention may be topically applied to the target organs so that the effects can be selectively exhibited, resulting in minimizing the side effects of HGF.

Medicament comprising HGF gene

A method for enhancing the transfection efficiency of naked plasmid DNA in treating and/or preventing angiogenesis-dependent symptoms is provided by the present inventions. According to the present method, a suitable naked plasmid DNA is subjected for intramuscular injection under increased pressure inside the muscle or hyperbaric oxygen. Angiogenesis-dependent symptoms, including wounds, inflammatory diseases, critical limb ischemia, ischemia heart diseases, cerebral infarction, diabetic neuropathy, spinal canal stenosis, etc., may be treated by the present methods.

Methods for treating or preventing angiogenesis-dependent symptoms

This invention enables the repair of cardiac function by noninvasive administration of an HGF gene in the form of Sendai virus (HVJ)-liposome into the affected cardiac muscle, thereby inducing angiogenesis of the cardiac muscle layer and repressing fibrosis.

Gene therapy for cardiomyopathy

By introducing hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene and/or vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene into the subarachnoid space in humans, cerebrovascular disorders such as cerebrovascular obstruction, cerebral infarction, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism, stroke, cerebral bleeding, moyamoya disease, cerebrovascular dementia, and Alzheimer's dementia can be effectively treated or prevented.

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Osaka, Japan

Toshio Ogihara