IMMUNOPOTENTIATING SUBSTANCE, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, FOOD, FEED AND COSMETIC EACH CONTAINING THE SAME

• Main Authors: NAKAYASU SEIICHIRO, SEIKI MASAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.05.2008
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; FODDER; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new immunopotentiating substance derived from Ascophyllum nodosum, and to provide a pharmaceutical composition, food, feed and a cosmetic each containing the same. SOLUTION: The new immunopotentiating substance, which is extracted from Ascophyllum nodosum as a kind of brown algae, comprises, as an active ingredient, ascophyllan as a sulfated polysaccharide with D-glucuronic acid as the main constituent other than L-fucose and D-xylose, and has immunopotentiating activities including G-CSF production-inducing ability, TNF-α production-inducing ability and apoptosis-inducing ability. A pharmaceutical composition, food, feed and a cosmetic each containing the immunopotentiating substance and having immunopotentiating activities are also provided, respectively. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT