Blood pressure is increased in a patient having a condition which effects rapid firing of neurons in the sympathetic nervous system and low blood pressure by administering tyrosine to the patient. The tyrosine composition can be administered alone or concomitantly with a drug which increases noradrenergic neurotransmission in the sympathetic nervous system.

The invention herein is directed to a method of increasing the linear growth rate of hair by administering gelatin over a long period of time.

A method of increasing plant biomass, individual plant constituents, and in most cases, increasing rate of plant growth, by the application of certain substituted phenoxytrialkylamines, substituted phenylthiotrialkyamines or dialkylmorpholium halides to plants at very early stages of development and in very low amounts.

Resid hydrotreating conversion of resid can be substantially increased by decreasing the feed gas rate and simultaneously increasing the concentration of hydrogen in the feed gases. Hydrogen purity can be increased by increasing the flow rate of lean sponge oil into the sponge oil absorbers, bleeding some of the recycled reactor tail gases, and increasing the makeup gas rate.

A method of increasing aqueous humor outflow in the eye of a human patient including topically administering to the eye an outflow increasing amount of a compound characterized in that it contains one or more groups capable of reacting with sulfhydryl groups in the trabecular meshwork of the eye, and it has a margin of safety of at least 2.0.

A method for increasing bone mass in a human afflicted with osteoporosis or a similar disease which comprises administering to the human so afflicated an effective amount of a composition comprising a parathyroid hormone or physiologically active fragment thereof, or equivalents thereof, in combination with either (a) a hydroxylated Vitamin D compound, or a structural or functional analogue thereof, or (b) a dietary calcium supplement. Pharmaceutical compositions containing the necessary compone...

In a method for producing sucrose from beets through a deionization treatment using ion-exchange resins, increasing the yield of sucrose by recovering sucrose from the molasses which is separated from sucrose when the massecuite resulting from the sugar-boiling process is subjected to centrifugal separation. Sucrose is recovered from the molasses by (i) allowing .alpha.-galactosidase to act upon the separated molasses thereby hydrolyzing the raffinose contained therein into sucrose and galactose...

Diffusivity of oxygen in aqueous solutions has been increased by the introduction of a water soluble carotenoid into the solutions. Carotenoids have been found to be useful for increasing the diffusivity of oxygen in the blood, and hence are useful for the reduction of local hypoxia, which is believed to be one of the factors in development of atherosclerosis. The administration of these materials has resulted in reducing the incidence of atherosclerosis in mammals.

Non-protein amino acids increase pigment production by Monascus species in the presence of protein amino acids.

Methods and compositions are disclosed for inducing an incresed blood level of alpha-etiocholanolone in the body of a mammal in need of such treatments comprising administering to said mammal an amount of etiocholanedione effective to induce said increased blood level.