WOUND HEALING AGENT, AGENT FOR AMELIORATION, PROMOTION OF HEALING OR PREVENTION OF INJURE OR THE LIKE OF TENDON OR LIGAMENT, FUNCTIONAL FOOD AND MEDICINE

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a useful wound healing agent, an agent for amelioration, promotion of the healing and prevention of injure, or the like, of a tendon or a ligament, an agent for ameliorating or enhancing the tendon or the ligament, an agent for amelioration, promotion of the healing and prevention of injure or rupture of the tendon or the ligament of a racehorse, an agent for ameliorating or enhancing the tendon or the ligament of the racehorse, and functional food and medicine containing the wound healing agent. PSOLUTION: The wound healing agent contains a peptide as a degradation product obtained by degrading a collagen or a gelatin by a collagenase and represented by an amino acid sequence of (Gly-X-Y)n (wherein, Gly is a glycine residue; and X and Y are each an arbitrary amino acid residue except the glycine) as an active ingredient. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI