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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Itaru Kojima, Maebashi, JP;
Assignee:
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/800 ; C07K 1/400 ; A61P 5/00 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/509 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/800 ; C07K 1/400 ; A61P 5/00 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/509 ;
Abstract
A medicament for treating a renal disease, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an activin inhibitor as an active ingredient. Also, a method for treating a renal disease, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an activin inhibitor to a patient suffering from renal disease is disclosed. The activin inhibitor may be follistatin, an anti-activin antibody, an inhibitor to activin receptor or an anti-activin receptor antibody, an inhibitor to signal transduction relating to activin receptor, an activin production inhibitor in kidney, and the like.