Composition for preventing or treating inflammation
AssigneeUniversity-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee
InventorsYoung Sook Son, Hyun Sook Hong, Do Yeon Kim, Eun Kyung Lee
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a composition containing Substance P for preventing or treating an inflammation. The composition containing Substance P according to the present invention exhibits the effect of decreasing leukocytes, neutrophils and hematopoietic stem cells in a blood, which are associated with the inflammation, and of increasing anti-inflammatory cytokines, regulatory T-lymphocytes, anti-inflammatory macrophages and the like, thereby terminating inflammatory response at an early stage, and is thus highly effective in preventing and treating the inflammation caused by a non-traumatic, traumatic, infectious or ischemic retinal injury.
Claims10
A method for decreasing or inhibiting inflammation in an animal or human, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of Substance-P to the animal or human to be treated, wherein the therapeutically effective amount of Substance-P is 0.001-0.5 mg/day or 0.0001-0.005 mg/kg.
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