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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2007
Applicants:
Yoshiya Tomimori, Shiga, JP;
Hisataka Yasuda, Shiga, JP;
Inventors:
Yoshiya Tomimori, Shiga, JP;
Hisataka Yasuda, Shiga, JP;
Assignee:
Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for producing an osteopenia animal model by RANKL administration and an osteopenia animal model. Also, a method for producing an osteopenia animal model, comprising administering soluble RANKL or a fused protein of soluble RANKL with an epitope tag to a non-human animal so as to promote vivo osteoclast differentiation and activation in the non-human animal, and an osteopenia animal model produced by the method are provided.