REMEDIES FOR ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS AND REMEDIES FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

摘要

It is intended to provide remedies efficacious for arthritis deformans and rheumatoid arthritis. Namely, remedies for arthritis deformans and rheumatoid arthritis which contain, as the active ingredient, chondromodulin-I protein having an activity of proliferating articular cartilage cells either alone or in the coexistence with a basic fibroblast growth factor and an activity of inhibiting accelerated degradation of cartilage matrix.