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- Patent Title: Pharmaceutical composition comprising silkworm as an active ingredient for prevention and treatment of tissue injury by radiation
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Application No.: US15076352Application Date: 2016-03-21
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Publication No.: US09610306B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Sang Hyun Park , Beom Su Jang , YouRee Nam
- Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
- Current Assignee: Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Priority: KR10-2013-0120099 20131008
- Main IPC: A61K35/64
- IPC: A61K35/64

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and treatment of tissue injury caused by irradiation which comprises silkworm hemolymph as an active ingredient. Particularly, when the silkworm hemolymph of the present invention was administered to an animal model with liver damage induced by irradiation, plasma AST and liver MDA were significantly decreased, indicating that the silkworm hemolymph of the invention can be effectively used as a composition for the prevention and treatment of disease caused by the exposure on radiation including tissue injury caused by irradiation, etc.
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