A compound, 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-2,4,6,10,14-hexadecapentaenoic acid, and a salt thereof are disclosed as a therapeutic agent for treatment of skin diseases with keratinization.

A method for treating Dutch elm disease by treatment of an elm tree with a microorganism comprising P. syringae or equivalent. The method includes the step of applying the microorganism to an elm tree early in the growing seaons and wherein no more than 10% of the crown of the tree is infected with the disease.

An artificial substrate consisting of a 2-alkanoylamino-4-nitrophenyl phosphorylcholine hydroxide is used for determining the sphingomyelinase activity in an extract of human cells or tissues by incubating the substrate together with the extract, whereby sphingomyelinase-catalyzed hydrolysis of the substrate into the corresponding 2-alkanoylamino-4-nitrophenol and phosphorylcholine takes place in an amount proportional to the sphingomyelinase activity in the extract. Alkalinization of the 2-alka...

Compounds of the Formula (I) ##STR1## where X is hydrogen, methoxy or alkyl of 1-4 carbon atoms ARE EFFECTIVE IN CONTROLLING PLANT FUNGUS DISEASES.

The improved live Newcastle disease virus vaccines of the invention contain a cold or cold and temperature-sensitive strain of Newcastle disease virus obtained by U.V. or nitrous acid mutation. The vaccines are administered to chickens in the form of an aerosol.

A process for alleviating proliferative skin diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, etc. comprising administering to humans, or domesticated animals, topically and/or systemically a composition comprising a pharmaceutical carrier and at least one active compound selected from the groups, substituted alkyl zanthines, tricyclic antidepressants, organic nitrates, antihypertensives, anti-asthma agents and central nervous system depressants, and combinations of certain compounds from specific...

A method for the control of bluetongue disease amongst sheep by the application of O, O-dimethyl O-p-(dimethylsulfamoyl) phenyl phosphorothioate directly to the back of the animal. Such application of a chemotherapeutic dosage prevents contamination of the animal by the bluetongue virus carrying gnat (Culicoides).

Gill disease in shrimp may be beneficially reduced by a compound treatment of shrimp in their aquatic environment with a combination of permanganate ion and a triethanolaminecopper(II) complex marketed under the trademark Cutrine-Plus.

Vaccines against oedema disease of piglets comprising an effective amount of E. coli neurotoxin isolated from a culture of an E. coli serotype which is capable of causing piglet oedema disease and adsorbed on an adjuvant. The vaccines are administered by intramuscular or subcutaneous route.

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.