USE OF PEDF-DERIVED POLYPEPTIDES FOR TREATING OSTEOARTHRITIS

摘要

A method for treating osteoarthritis in a subject includes administering to a subject in need of such treatments a synthetic peptide, which has an amino acid sequence that has 20-39 amino acid residues. The synthetic peptide has at least 20 consecutive residues that has at least 90% amino acid sequence identity to residues 11-30 of SEQ ID NO: 1.