| 摘要 |
<p>There are disclosed therapeutic substances useful in a process of treating or alleviating the symptoms of a pathological condition in which bone density is decreased, which comprises inhibiting, in a mammalian patient suffering from such a condition, the formation in vivo of a tertiary complex of IL-II, its cell surface membrane receptor and the cell surface glycoprotein gp130. Examples of such substances are recombinant soluble IL-II receptor mutants modified, as compared with native IL-II receptor, at their gp130 binding site, and peptides which can interact with IL-II. The process not only inhibits bone resorption and hence bone loss, but also increases the process of bone formation to increase bone density.</p> |
