REMEDIES FOR ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS AND REMEDIES FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

摘要

The present invention aims at providing a therapeutic agent effective for diseases of osteoarthritis and chronic rheumatoid arthritis, and provides a therapeutic agent for osteoarthritis or therapeutic agent for chronic rheumatoid arthritis which contains, as an active ingredient, a chondromodulin-I protein having an activity of growing articular chondrocytes by itself or under coexistence of a basic fibroblast growth factor and an activity of suppressing hyper degradation of cartilage matrix.