Patent ID: 9095551
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: A61K,A61P

Abstract:
1. A method for treating joint diseases, comprising injecting a hyaluronic acid and an animal mucin-type glycoprotein in combination into a joint cavity or into synovial fluid of a subject suffering from a joint disease, wherein 95% or more of the full-length amino acid sequence of the animal mucin-type glycoprotein is composed of a mucin region, and wherein the animal mucin-type glycoprotein has a repeat structure that comprises 3 to 2000 repeating units, wherein each repeating unit consists of the amino acid sequence represented by the following formula (I) (SEQ ID NO: 1): wherein Xaa denotes Val or Ile; and sugar chains are bound to 50% or more of all Thr residues in the repeat structure.