摘要 |
<p>A medicine for preventing and treating bleeding tendency containing IL-6 as an active ingredient. The administration of IL-6 serves to enhance the functions of both blood platelets and hemangioendothelial cells to thereby remedy hemorrhagic diathesis, thus enhancing the hemostatic function. Thus IL-6 is useful as an excellent medicine for preventing and treating bleeding tendency, since it has an activity of efficiently inhibiting the bleeding tendency of a living organism and is per se a physiologically active substance derived from a living organism. Therefore IL-6 is useful in treating various bleeding tendencies, such as one caused by bone marrow inhibition after cancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy, one observed after bone marrow transplantation, one observed in hypoplastic anemia, or one observed in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.</p> |