The present invention relates to a polypeptide represented by the formula:
A1-Arg-A2-Cys-Tyr-A3-A4-X-A5-A6-Cit-Cys-A7 (I) (wherein A1 represents a
hydrogen atom or an arginine, lysine, ornithine, citrulline, alanine
residue, etc.; A2 represents an aromatic amino acid residue; A3, A4 and
A6 represent an arginine, lysine, ornithine, citrulline or alanine
residue, A5 represents a tyrosine, phenylalanine, alanine,
naphthylalanine or citrulline residue; A7 represents a lysine or arginine
residue in which a carboxyl group may be amidated; X represents a
D-ornithyl-proline, prolyl-D-ornithine, D-lysyl-proline residue, etc.;
provided that either of A1, A3, A4, A5, A6 and A7 is an alanine residue,
etc., or X is citrulline, etc.) or a salt thereof.