A plant viral disease inhibitor containing as an active ingredient thereof at least one material selected from the group consisting of theaflavin and its derivatives represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or ##STR2## and their analogues.

The invention relates to radiopharmaceuticals useful for specifically localizing blood clots during the diagnosis and treatment of thromboembolic disorders. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method for preparing and using radioactive urokinase. A novel process for producing urokinase labeled with technetium-99m involves combination of urokinase with the nuclide in a basic solution containing ferric chloride and ascorbic acid, and then adjusting the pH to give an acidic condition in th...

Lactulose has been found to be effective in the treatment of periodontal disease.

Preparation of and live bacterial vaccine from selected strains of Escherichia coli. The bacterial cells are treated with dilute formalin solutions (about 0.02 to about 0.08% v/v formalin) for a period to modify the bacteria without inactivation thereof. One preferred strain is EW1 serogroup of 0157. The vaccine has been found particularly effective in preventing the occurrence of enteric colibacillosis in newborn animals. A preferred technique is to vaccinate cows, recover the milk, and continu...

The present invention provides a method of treating Alzheimer's disease, which method comprises administering to a person requiring such treatment, a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt of deferoxamine USAN. Such salts are preferably administered parenterally in the form of aqueous solutions. The dosage of suitable acid addition salts of deferoxamine, e.g. of the mesylate, is conveniently from about 0.2 to 5 g daily, preferably from about 0.2 to 1.5 g and in particular about 0.5 to ab...

White muscle disease is controlled by administering the combination of a selenium compound and vitamin E, by parenteral injection to any mammal or by oral ingestion in mammals other than herbivores.

A crop disease preventive agent which may be kasugamycin or its addition, acid salts alone, or in the ratio of 1-1000 to 1-20 of a conventional fungicide such as phenyl mercury acetate, phenyl mercury iodide, blasticidin S, hexadecylthiocyanate and octadecylthiocyanate.

The apparatus includes a peristaltic pump for withdrawing whole blood from a patient, a device for centrifuging the blood to separate plasma from the whole blood, a plasma treatment chamber for receiving the plasma, a vehicle positioned within the chamber and having an immunoadsorbent agent fixed thereon to interact and bond with an immunological reactant carried by the plasma that is passed through the chamber for removing the immunological reactant from the plasma, tubings connected to recombi...

The instant invention relates to a method for treating vascular disease comprising the administration by deep intramuscular injection to a patient suffering from said disease of an amount of a dilute aqueous solution of potassium permanganate effective for treating said disease.

This disclosure describes compositions of matter useful as anti-inflammatory agents and as inhibitors of the progressive joint deterioration characteristic of arthritic disease, and the methods of meliorating inflammation and of inhibiting joint deterioration in mammals therewith, the active ingredient of said compositions of matter being .beta.-oxo-2-thiophenepropionitrile or the pharmaceutically acceptable cationic salts thereof.