Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Euglena Co., Ltd.

Dai-nippon Sugar Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yoshihisa Nakano

Kenji Kanai

Kengo Suzuki

Ayaka Nakashima

Yuta Asayama

Osamu Iwata

Eriko Yoshida

Nobuo Honami

Misa Ohgushi

Naoki Harada

Masahiko Tatsumi

Kazutaka Miyatake

Ituo Kensho

Fumio Yamashita

Toshikazu Nagai

Tadashi Fujimoto

Hideki Tukimura

Provided are a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for a peptic ulcer, a food additive for prevention and treatment of a peptic ulcer, an iNOS expression inhibitor, and a COX-2 expression inhibitor, all of which have little side effects. The prophylactic or therapeutic agent contains a-derived material as an active ingredient. The-derived material may be, paramylon, or an acid-treated paramylon. The prophylactic or therapeutic agent is useful for the prevention or treatment of a peptic ulcer induced by psychological stress. The peptic ulcer may be a gastric ulcer. The food additive contains a-derived material as an active ingredient.

Prophylactic or therapeutic agent for peptic ulcer, food additive for prophylactic or therapeutic use, iNOS expression inhibitor and COX-2 expression inhibitor

A photosynthetic culture system has a culture bath holding an fluid containing plant microorganisms, carbon dioxide supplying means for supplying carbon dioxide to the fluid in the culture bath, light-conducting plate in the form of a flat plate placed oppositely to a light-receiving culture surface existing on the side of said culture bath, and light-receiving panel mounted on the upper end surface of the light-conducting plate. Further said light-conducting plate has the function of turning incident light from said light-receiving panel by right angles to conduct the light uniformly to said light-receiving culture surface of said culture bath.

Photosynthetic culture apparatus and group of photosynthesis culture apparatuses

There is provided an inhibitory agent of an increase in blood sugar level, comprising conduritol A of the formula(I): ##STR1## or a derivative thereof, as an active component.

Inhibitory agent of an increase in blood sugar level

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Sakai, Japan

Yoshihisa Nakano