Abstract: The present invention provides an adsorbent, adsorption unit, and an adsorption method which make it possible to selectively adsorb an immunoglobulin and/or an immune complex present in a body fluid (for example, blood, plasma, etc.) efficiently without pretreating the body fluid. By immobilizing a compound having binding activity for an immunoglobulin and/or an immune complex on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorbent having remarkably excellent adsorption capacity may be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adsorbent, adsorption unit, and an adsorption method which make it possible to selectively adsorb an immunoglobulin and/or an immune complex present in a body fluid (for example, blood, plasma, etc.) efficiently without pretreating the body fluid. By immobilizing a compound having binding activity for an immunoglobulin and/or an immune complex on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorbent having remarkably excellent adsorption capacity may be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a purification method of obtaining N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanine of high quality in good yield with high productivity, which is accordingly suited for commercial scale application. An impurity-contaminated N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanine is crystallized from a mixed solvent of alcohol and water in a volume ratio of alcohol/water being 1 to 20 to remove a contaminating impurity into a mother liquor and give crystals of N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanine.

Abstract: An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which has the ability to adsorb HCV particles, particularly immune-complex HCV particles, from a patient's body blood safely and with high efficiency and high selectivity for enhancing the efficacy of interferon therapy, an HCV adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and a adsorbing method for removing HCV are provided. An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which comprises a compound capable of adsorbing hepatitis C virus as immobilized on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and an adsorbing method for removing HCV.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adsorbent, adsorption unit, and an adsorption method which make it possible to selectively adsorb an immunoglobulin and/or an immune complex present in a body fluid (for example, blood, plasma, etc.) efficiently without pretreating the body fluid. By immobilizing a compound having binding activity for an immunoglobulin and/or an immune complex on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorbent having remarkably excellent adsorption capacity may be obtained.

Abstract: An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which has the ability to adsorb HCV particles, particularly immune-complex HCV particles, from a patient's body blood safely and with high efficiency and high selectivity for enhancing the efficacy of interferon therapy, an HCV adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and a adsorbing method for removing HCV are provided.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a purification method of obtaining N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanine of high quality in good yield with high productivity, which is accordingly suited for commercial scale application.

Abstract: An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which has the ability to adsorb HCV particles, particularly immune-complex HCV particles, from a patient's body blood safely and with high efficiency and high selectivity for enhancing the efficacy of interferon therapy, an HCV adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and a adsorbing method for removing HCV are provided. An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which comprises a compound capable of adsorbing hepatitis C virus as immobilized on a water-insoluble carrier, an adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and an adsorbing method for removing HCV.

Abstract: An adsorbent for removing hepatitis C virus which has the ability to adsorb HCV particles, particularly immune-complex HCV particles, from a patient's body blood safely and with high efficiency and high selectivity for enhancing the efficacy of interferon therapy, an HCV adsorption apparatus including said adsorbent, and a adsorbing method for removing HCV are provided.

Abstract: Immobilization of SH group-containing compounds on a solvent-insoluble support is carried out in the presence of an antioxidant to prevent oxidation of SH groups to S—S bonds. This improves immobilization efficiency and suppresses deterioration of inherent characteristics of the SH group-containing compound. Antioxidants include sodium pyrosulfite (sodium disulfite), sodium sulfite, sodium hydrogensulfite, sodium hydrosulfite and L-ascorbic acid. SH group-containing compounds include cysteine, peptides or proteins containing cysteine and thiol compounds such as ethanethiol, aminoethanethiol, benzylthiol and thiophenol. Preferably, the SH group-containing compound has a molecular weight not more than 3×104. The support may be activated by a functional group such as glycidyl, imidocarbonato, tosyl, tresyl, carboxyl, amino, azido or hydroxyl. The support can be inorganic such as glass beads or organic such as a synthetic polymer or a polysaccharide.

Abstract: An adsorbent that exhibits a high specificity in adsorbing immunoglobulins and/or complexes thereof, is extremely reduced in the lowering of the adsorption characteristic during sterilization or storage, is highly stable and safe, and is prepared by immobilizing on a water-insoluble support either a peptide derivative which has undergone at least one of the deletion, substitution, insertion, or addition of amino acids in a peptide having a specified amino acid sequence or an amino acid sequence, or the above peptide derivative which has undergone the addition of Lyn or Cys at the amino and/or carboxyl terminal thereof; a device for adsorption and removal made by packing the adsorbent in a vessel equipped with effluent preventing means; and a method of adsorbing and removing immunoglobulins and/or complexes thereof contained in the blood, plasma or other body fluids with the adsorbent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adsorbent being capable of efficiently adsorbing and removing interleukins in a body fluid and to a method for adsorbing and removing, if necessary, and recovering interleukins in a body fluid with the above-mentioned adsorbent. According to the present invention, there are provided an adsorbent of interleukins which comprises a water-insoluble carrier having an anionic functional group, a method for adsorbing, removing and recovering interleukins using the same and an adsorber using the same.

Abstract: Ethyl-.beta.-benzoyacrylate is reacted with an alkali metal salt of (S)-alanine or an alkali metal salt of N.sup.6 -trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine to form the corresponding Michael addition product, and not less than an equivalent amount of acid is added after completion of the Michael addition to prevent conversion of the (S,S) form of the product to the (R,S) form.