NOVEL POLYPEPTIDE, cDNA ENCODING THE SAME AND UTILIZATION THEREOF

摘要

A novel mouse polypeptide applicable to the treatment of diseases in which abnormal proliferation of smooth muscle participates, for example, arteriosclerosis and myoma, because of having an effect of inhibiting the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Moreover, this polypeptide has hematopoietic cell-regulatory activity, tissue generation/reparation activity, activin/inhibin activity, taxis/chemotaxis activity, blood coagulation and thrombus activity, receptor/ligand activity, etc. and, therefore, is expected as useful in preventing and/or treating various diseases.