Toray Industries, Inc.

Yoshiki Yamamoto

Koji Watanabe

Yuji Ueda

Kazuo Teramoto

Toshio Yoshioka

Masaaki Shimagaki

Takeo Matsunase

An adsorbent for immunosuppressive substance, which can adsorb an excessive immunosuppressive substance directly from a body fluid, can carry out extracorporeal perfusion safely and can be utilized in treatment of cancer. The excessive immunosuppressive substance may be involved in growth of cancer cells. The adsorbent for immunosuppressive substance includes a water-insoluble carrier and a hydrophilic amino group immobilized to the water-insoluble carrier. An extracorporeal perfusion column contains the adsorbent of the invention. A method for treating cancer carries out extracorporeal perfusion using the extracorporeal perfusion column. A method of adsorbing the transforming growth factor &#x3b2; which is combined with another protein, includes adsorbing the transforming growth factor &#x3b2; and protein on an adsorbent containing a water-insoluble carrier to which quaternary ammonium groups each having 3 to 18 carbon atoms per one nitrogen atom are attached, and having a specific surface area of 0.1 mor more per gram.

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Kyoto, Japan

Yoshiki Yamamoto