Abstract:
Two proteins that are found in bone and that have in vivo chondrogenic/osteogenic activity in combination with a co-factor are described. Both proteins also were active in combination with EGF in the in vitro TGF-.beta. assay. Each has a molecular weight of approximately 26,000 daltons by SDS-PAGE. Each is reduced to a single polypeptide indicating that the proteins are probably homodimers. One has an N-terminal sequence identical to that of human placenta-derived TGF-.beta. whereas the other has an N-terminal sequence that is different from that of TGF-.beta. derived from human placenta. The two proteins may be purified to homogeneity using RP-HPLC or acetic acid-urea gel electrophoresis.
Abstract:
A transparent adjusted milk whey protein is prepared by a method in which milk whey protein is purified and then the pH of a solution containing the milk whey protein is adjusted to not higher than 4 or not lower than 6. The solution may be heated to a temperature not lower than 55.degree. C. before or after adjusting the pH. Further, an adjusted milk whey product is prepared by a method in which the pH of a solution containing milk whey protein is adjusted to not higher than 4 or not lower than 6 and the solution is heated at a temperature not lower than 55.degree. C. and cooled to a temperature not higher than 10.degree. C., or a method in which the pH of a solution containing purified milk whey protein is adjusted to not higher than 4 or not lower than 6 under such a condition as salt content of the solution is 0 or not higher than 50 mM, and the solution is heated at a temperature not lower than 55.degree. C. and cooled to a temperature not higher than 10.degree. C.
Abstract:
A method for treatment of inflammation, comprising the step of administering to a patient in need thereof an effective, inflammation-inhibiting amount of a composition comprising IL-6, or IL-6 and TGF.beta. together in a weight ratio of from about 5:95 to 95:5, preferably from about 20:80 to 80:20. Also disclosed is a composition for treatment of inflammation, comprising as active ingredients IL-6 and TGF.beta. in a weight ratio of from about 5:95 to about 95:5, optionally comprising a carrier in combination with the active ingredients, and a method of reducing migration of neutrophils into tissue of an animal which has received an inflammatory stimulus, comprising the step of administering to the tissue an effective neutrophil-migration-inhibiting amount of a composition as defined above.
Abstract:
A novel process for the isolation and purification of vancomycin class antibiotics which utilized affinity chromatography by the formation of a sorption complex between the antibiotic and an immobilizing ligand selected from -D-alanyl-D-alanine or -X-D-alanyl-D-alanine, wherein X is an amino acid radical and the novel affinity chromatography sorbent employed therein are disclosed.
Abstract:
Fab or Fc fragment of human IgG which is obtainable by enzymatic digestion of the human IgG is reduced by a reducing agent to sever an interchain of disulfide bonds therein and then blocked the SH radicals formed with alkyl group which may contain other group. The resulting alkylated Fab and Fc fragments display therapeutic and prophylactic action for gastrointestinal ulcers by the oral or parenteral administration.
Abstract:
A derivative of a fibrinolytic enzyme in which the catalytic site on the enzyme which is responsible for fibrinolytic activity is blocked by a human protein attached thereto by way of a reversible linking group.
Abstract:
An intravenous immune globulin preparation having at least 99% pure globulin protein and an anticomplement activity of less than 0.10 C'50 units/mg IgG prepared by: precipitating impurities from Cohn Fraction II in an aqueous-alcohol medium at defined temperature and pH, removing the precipitated impurities, stabilizing the diluted solution with albumin, concentrating the solution and removing the alcohol therefrom. Also prepared by this method, an intravenous, hyperimmune globulin preparation having increased antibody titers to sixteen serospecific strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an allosterically active conjugate composition comprising one or more hemoglobin tetramers and one or more adducts of a physiologically safe macromolecular agent covalently linked to one or more ligands, such that the adduct is bound to the allosteric binding site of the hemoglobin in a reversible, non-covalent manner; the invention also relates to methods for producing such conjugate compositions; and to blood substitutes or plasma extenders containing such conjugates.
Abstract:
A method for destroying microbial contamination, such as viral and bacterial contamination and mycoplasma contamination, in protein material, and particularly tissue and serum from animals and human beings. The method comprises the reducing of the temperature of the protein material, in a state other than a lyophilized state, to at least the freezing point and preferably to the eutectic point. The method comprises reducing the temperature of lyophilized protein to at least a temperature of -3 degrees C., or colder. Thereafter, gamma radiation is applied in an amount sufficient, at least 5,000 rads and preferably at least 600,000 rads, to destroy substantially all microbial contamination in the protein material without significantly reducing the protein efficacy.
Abstract:
Monoclonal antibodies are isolated from spent culture medium of the in vitro growth of hybridoma cells by treating said spent cell culture medium or a concentrate thereof with a water-insoluble, cross-linked polyelectrolyte copolymer.