Takara Bio Establishes Efficient Method to Produce Polyterpene, Tumor Growth Inhibitor.

Tokyo, Japan, Aug 30, 2005 - (JCNN) - Takara Bio announced on August 29 that it has established an efficient method to extract polyterpene, a tumor growth inhibitor, using alkaline aqueous solution. Polyterepene is an organic compound derived from hypsizius marmoreus, a kind of edible mushroom.

Compared with the conventional extracting method, the new approach can yield polyterpene 30 times more efficiently.

Further, in its recent experiments using tumor-bearing mice, the company confirmed that high-purity polyterpene purified by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) strongly inhibits tumor growth.

Details of these findings will be presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association to be held in Sapporo from September 14 to 16.

Source: JCN http://www.japancorp.net

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