Chondrogenesis stimulator
AssigneeChugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYukio Kato, Katsumi Fujimoto
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Abstract
There are provided a chondrogenesis stimulator containing MTf, a chondrogenic differentiation suppressing agent containing an MTf antagonist, a screening method for obtaining an MTf activating agent, an MTf activating agent obtained by the screening method, a chondrogenesis stimulator containing an MTf activating agent as obtained by the screening method, and MTf which lacks the GPI anchor region.
Claims9
A method for stimulating cartilage formation comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of membrane-bound transferrin-like protein (MTf).
A method for stimulating chondrogenesis comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of MTf.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.