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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1994
Tetsuji Sudoh, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Maekawa, Tokyo, JP;
Naoto Minamino, Miyazaki-gun, JP;
Kenji Kangawa, Miyazaki-gun, JP;
Hisayuki Matsuo, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Atsushi Izumi, Tokyo, JP;
Mika Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuji Sudoh, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Maekawa, Tokyo, JP;
Naoto Minamino, Miyazaki-gun, JP;
Kenji Kangawa, Miyazaki-gun, JP;
Hisayuki Matsuo, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Atsushi Izumi, Tokyo, JP;
Mika Takashima, Tokyo, JP;
Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A physiologically active polypeptide derived from human brain and a DNA fragment comprising the base sequence encoding the polypeptide are disclosed. The polypeptide possesses excellent smooth muscle relaxation activity, diuretic or natriuretic activity, and vasodepressor activity, and is thus useful as a medicine for curing circulation diseases, e.g. cardiac edema, nephric edema, hepatic edema, pulmonary edema, hypertension, congestive heat failure, and acute and chronic renal failure.