Maruzen Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.

Yasuo Miyake

Nobuaki Ohto

Ito Yoko

Jun Nojima

Yoko Ito

An anti-inflammatory agent which includes an oil-soluble licorice extract, prepared by subjecting at least one of a leguminous plant of the genusand a water extraction residue of a leguminous plant of the genusto an extraction treatment with an organic solvent and which has at least one effect selected from an inhibitory effect on hyaluronidase activity, an inhibitory effect on hexosaminidase release (i.e., inhibitory effect on histamine release), an inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation, and an inhibitory effect on phospholipase Aactivity.

Anti-inflammatory agent

A substance having a testosterone 5&#x3b1;-reductase inhibiting action, a hair papilla cell growth promoting action, a fibroblast growth factor-7 production promoting action, a vascular endothelial growth factor production promoting action or a bone morphogenetic protein-2 production promoting action, and a hair care product having this substance blended therein. A hair growth tonic, a testosterone 5&#x3b1;-reductase inhibitor, a hair papilla cell growth promoter, a fibroblast growth factor-7 production promoter, a vascular endothelial growth factor production promoter and a bone morphogenetic protein-2 production promoter each having this substance, such as corosolic acid, as an active ingredient thereof.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yasuo Miyake