Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Lsip, LLC

Yuya Nakazawa

Satoshi Takagi

Naoya Fujita

The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody or a functional fragment thereof, capable of recognizing Aggrus epitope that includes an amino-acid sequence represented by a sequence ID 1, 3, or 4, and the monoclonal antibody or the functional fragment thereof produced from a hybridoma with accession number of FERM BP-11446, FERM BP-11447, FERM BP-11448 or FERM BP-11449. The present invention provides the hybridoma, and further an Aggrus-CLEC-2 binding inhibitor and a pharmaceutical composition for inhibition of platelet aggregation, prevention of cancer metastasis, or treatment of tumor or cancer, including the monoclonal antibody or the functional fragment thereof.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuya Nakazawa