Department of Radiology, University of Tübingen, Germany. sascha.khorchidi@uni-tuebingen.de
Asahi Kasei is developing a recombinant thrombomodulin (ART-123), a human protein with both thrombin inhibiting and protein C stimulating activities, for the potential treatment of thromboembolism and blood clotting disorders, such as disseminated intravascular thromboembolism [169907]. By September 2000, it had entered phase III trials [383525]. A patent, US-05916874, claiming a method for treating liver injury and whose composition comprises a thrombomodulin, was published in 1999 by the company.