摘要:
The invention relates to the chemical pharmaceutical industry, in particular to a method for producing an immunotropic preparation exhibiting a high antiviral activity with respect to RNA and DNA viruses. In order to produce the inventive preparation, fat-free sturgeon or salmon milt, or a calf thymus, or chicken blood, or porcine liver is pulverised and homogenised in a saline citrate solution. The produced homogenate is incubated in the presence of a detergent, a calcium chlorine solution being added at a high temperature. Afterwards, said homogenate is treated by ultrasound, a sorbent and detergent and concentrated, thereby producing a white amorphous deposit of DNA which has the following characteristics: a molecular mass ranging from 270 to 500 kD, a hyperchromatic action not less than 37 %, a protein content of less than 1 %. The DNA deposit is dried and the obtained powder is diluted in an aqueous solution of the following transition metal: Zn, Co, Mn, Sb, whereby a 1.5 % sterilised solution having a hyperchromatic action equal to or higher than 10 % is obtained.
摘要:
The present invention relates to the preparation of non-human animals having chimeric livers, whereby some or substantially all of the hepatocytes present are human hepatocytes. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that rats, tolerized in utero against human hepatocytes, were found to serve as long-term hosts for human hepatocytes introduced post-natally, and the introduced hepatocytes maintained their differentiated phenotype, as evidenced by continued production of human albumin.
摘要:
A core material such as animal tissue or cells is contained within a semipermeable vessel which may be a microcapsule, hollow fiber or plastic membrane having a semipermeable wall by a method that prevents the core material from incorporation into the wall of the vessel. This is accomplished by suspending the core material in a solution of polysaccharide gum such as an alkali metal alginate in an amount between about 0.2% and about 0.5%, removing and washing the core material to remove all but a thin layer of polysaccharide gum, and gelling the polysaccharide gum with multivalent cations or other means to form a pretreated core material. The pretreated core material is contained within a semipermeable vessel such as by suspending the pretreated core material in a solution of alkali metal alginate, forming the suspension into droplets, gelling the droplets to form temporary shape-retaining capsules and treating the capsules with a polymeric material having groups that react with and crosslink acid groups of the capsules to form a permanent semipermeable membrane around the capsules. A second permanent semipermeable membrane may be formed around the capsules to form double-walled microcapsules by further treating the capsules with the polymeric material. The semipermeable vessel may be impermeable to immune factors. Cells or tissue can be transplanted from a donor to a subject such as by using pancreatic islet tissue or cells as the core material of the double-walled microcapsules and transplanting the microcapsules by intraperitoneal injection into a diabetic subject.
摘要:
The instant invention provides, for the first time, the use of cadaveric organs from donors with non-beating hearts as a source of functional cells such as progenitor or stem cells for various medical purposes. More specifically, a method is disclosed whereby a tissue source of progenitor cells is obtained comprising harvesting tissue from a donor, wherein the donor has a non-beating heart for as long as about thirty hours postmortem and processing the cadaveric tissue to provide progenitor cells. The instant progenitors are used for various medical purposes as means of cell therapy, gene therapy, artificial organs, bioreactors, organ regeneration and the like.
摘要:
Cells suitable for transplantation which have at least two different epitopes on a surface antigen altered prior to transplantation to inhibit rejection of the cells following transplantation into an allogeneic or xenogeneic recipient are disclosed. These cells are more successfully transplanted than cells which have only a single epitope on the surface antigen altered. Preferably, the antigen on the cell surface which is altered is an MHC class I antigen. Two different epitopes on an MHC class I antigen can be altered by contacting the cell with two molecules, such as antibodies or fragments thereof (e.g., F(ab')2 fragments), which bind to two different epitopes on the antigen. Preferred epitopes on human MHC class I antigens to be altered are epitopes recognized by the monoclonal antibodies W6/32 and PT85. Improved methods for transplantation utilizing cells which have at least two different epitopes on a surface antigen altered prior to transplantation are also disclosed.
摘要:
The invention relates to the field of transplantation, specifically to the field of transplantation of isolated cells. The invention provides a method to allow cell transplantation as a method to replace organ transplantation. Anti-integrin (poly)peptides significantly block attachment of cells to both vessel walls and tissue in an in vitro binding assay. Blocking of integrins by incubation with blocking (poly)peptides significantly decreases the number of cellular aggregates after in vivo cell transplantation, and has a significant increasing effect on cellular homing in the recipient tissue. Blocking of integrin strongly improves transplanted cell survival in the recipient tissue after transplantation.
摘要:
The invention features methods of replacing thymus function and inducing immunological tolerance. The methods include the introduction of xenogeneic thymic tissue and administration of donor stem cells in conjunction with therapeutic regimens which promote the engraftment and proliferation of the donor tissues.
摘要:
Substances of polypeptide nature obtainable by extraction from animal tissue homogenates, which substances can induce, when administered to various animal species, the formation of antibodies able to recognize in vivo or in vitro antigens which are present in human tumoral cells; and can decrease or inhibit pain, induce an effect of cell lysis, and inhibit or slow down the tumor growth, when administered to humans affected by malignant tumors of different kinds.