JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY;OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE
发明人:
FURUKAWA, TAKAHISA
申请号：
CA2514971
公开号：
CA2514971C
申请日:
2004.02.02
申请国别(地区):
CA
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention provides a medicine, comprising (a)an Otx2 protein or its partial peptide, or a salt thereof, or(b) a DNA or an RNA encoding an Otx2 protein or its partial peptide.The present medicine is useful as an agent for preventing,treating or suppressing progression of a retinal diseaseincluding retinal degeneration. In addition, the presentmedicine is useful, for example, as an agent for inducingdifferentiation from a retinal stem cell into a retinalphotoreceptor cell, in the transplantation of a cell into theretina of patients suffering from retinal diseases.
