摘要:
A substantially pure compound comprising an unbranched ceramide polysaccharide type 2 chain having the following structure: wherein Gal represents galactose, GlcNAc represents N -acetylglucoseamine, Fuc represents fucose and Cer represents ceramide. A substantially pure compound comprising an unbranched ceramide polysaccharide type 2 chain having the following structure: wherein Gal represents galactose, GlcNAc represents N -acetylglucoseamine, Fuc represents fucose, Cer represents ceramide and NeuAc represents sialic acid. Antibodies that are specific to portions of the above-described compounds, wherein the portions comprise the internal α1->3 fucosyl residue and/or the terminal sialic acid residue. Immunogens for producing antibodies to the above-described compounds or portions thereof. A method of actively immunizing against tumors that express the above-described compounds.
摘要:
The invention relates to the use of a mixture of gangliosides GM₁, GD 1a , GD 1b and GT 1b for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or the prophylactic treatment of general toxic effects or chronic neurotoxic effects caused by the subsequent administration of antineoplastic agents.
摘要:
An analgesic composition comprising an effective amount of at least one member of LPS whose macrophage activation ED₅₀ is 0.4 - 100 ng/ml of culture solution in terms of its limulus test-positive LPS content observed on a sigmoid curve prepared by determining the ability of the LPS to activate the TNF productivity of macrophage cultured in vitro , and plotting the macrophage activation ability (%) along the axis of ordinate wherein the ability is estimated to be 0 % in the case where it corresponds to the quantity of TNF produced by macrophage with no LPS added thereto, and 100 % is assigned to the macrophage activation ability which provides the maximal and constant quantity of TNF produced by the macrophage and plotting the limulus test-positive LPS content of the LPS along the axis of abscissa on a logarithmic scale, in admixture with a pharmaceutically or veterinarily acceptable carrier, such that when administered to an animal, high cholesterol level of said animal is prevented or cured; and a method of treating pain of an animal comprising administration to said animal an amount of the above composition effective to prevent or cure the pain of said animal.
摘要:
A substantially pure compound comprising an unbranched ceramide polysaccharide type 2 chain having the following structure: wherein Gal represents galactose, GlcNAc represents N -acetylglucoseamine, Fuc represents fucose and Cer represents ceramide. A substantially pure compound comprising an unbranched ceramide polysaccharide type 2 chain having the following structure: wherein Gal represents galactose, GlcNAc represents N -acetylglucoseamine, Fuc represents fucose, Cer represents ceramide and NeuAc represents sialic acid. Antibodies that are specific to portions of the above-described compounds, wherein the portions comprise the internal α1->3 fucosyl residue and/or the terminal sialic acid residue. Immunogens for producing antibodies to the above-described compounds or portions thereof. A method of actively immunizing against tumors that express the above-described compounds.
摘要:
The present invention provides (1) a blood-treating material comprising a lipopolysaccharide derived from cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria and immobilized by an insoluble carrier containing an amino group or a carboxyl group and (2) a process for producing the blood-treating material characterized by reacting a condensing agent with a mixture of the lipopolysaccharide and the insoluble carrier. Lipopolysaccharides have been known to have antitumor effects against malignant tumors. However, they could not be used safely, since their fatal doses are very close to the minimum effective doses in the treatment of the tumors. The present invention makes it possible to reduce the lethal toxicity of the above-mentioned lipopolysaccharides and provide a new blood-treating material that can be used safely for therapy of cancer, because this blood-treating material has antitumor effects similar to those of the lipopolysaccharides derived from cell walls of Gram-negative bacteria but no fatal effects.
摘要:
A composition for co-injection of an animal against a gram-negative pathogen which comprises an effective dose of a gram-negative type lipopolysaccharide devoid of O-carbohydrate side-chains and a vaccine derived from said pathogen. Methods of co-injection of an animal to protect the animal against gram-negative pathogens.
摘要:
New classes of photosensitizing compounds useful in photodynamic therapy are disclosed. These compounds are simplified dimers and polymers of monohydroxy deuteroporphyrins, hydrophobic ethers of these monomers, and red light-absorbing derivatives of methyl pheophorbide-a.
摘要:
A method for making a pharmaceutical composition is described. The composition is comprised of an organic acid derivative of alpha tocopherol, and may additionally comprise other lipids. The composition may be in the form of liposomes, and as such are associated with or entrap a bioactive agent. Particularly suited for such systems are drugs stable at acidic pH, for example drugs having imidazole groups, such as pilocarpine. The composition requires a stabilizer to maintain the bilayer phase of the organic acid derivative of alpha tocopherol in a low pH environment. Such a stabilizer is for example a detergent. Upon in vivo administration of the system and concomitant increase of pH, viscosity of the preparation increases.