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US 11,692,037 B2Granted
Anti-IL-6 receptor antibody-containing medicinal composition for preventing post-surgical adhesion
AssigneesHyogo College of Medicine, Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJiro Fujimoto, Tomohiro Yoshimoto, Naoki Uyama
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Abstract
Postoperative adhesion formation at an invasion site and migration of neutrophils to the site of surgical invasion are suppressed by administering an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody and/or a neutrophil-neutralizing antibody.
Claims11
A method for suppressing postoperative adhesion, which comprises administering an effective amount of an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody to a subject, wherein the adhesion is gastrointestinal adhesion or liver adhesion.
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