Medicament and method for treating renal disease
AssigneeAjinomoto Co., Inc.
InventorItaru Kojima
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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.
Claims13
A method for treating a renal disease associated with increased activin activity, comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of an activin inhibitor.
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