Pharmaceutical composition for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of skin disease

Abstract

In the present invention, the influence by flora of the skin on dermatitis is examined by analyzing Tmem79-knockout model mice, and a bacterium having a suppressive effect on dermatitis is identified, and the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition derived from such a bacterium, containing as active components one or more substances selected from: (a) a bacterial cell of an ampicillin-sensitive bacterium, or a constituent component of the bacterium; (b) a culture supernatant of an ampicillin-sensitive bacterium, or a purified product from the culture supernatant; (c) an extract of an ampicillin-sensitive bacterium; and (d) a metabolite of an ampicillin-sensitive bacterium.

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