Abstract: A process for making a soybean curd bread which comprises adding magnesium chloride to a soybean milk having a predetermined solid content and at a temperature of about 60° C. to 90° C. to prepare homogeneously emulsified soybean curd, adding a bread dough composed of wheat flour, yeast, seasonings and water to prepare a soybean curd bread dough, stirring and mixing the soybean curd bread to ferment the soybean curd bread dough, with fermentation being promoted by utilizing the property of magnesium chloride contained in the soybean curd bread dough to prepare a fermented soybean curd bread dough and baking the fermented soybean curd bread dough.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula ##STR1## wherein: X is halogen or trifluoromethyl;R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen or trifluoromethyl;R.sub.2 is hydrogen methyl or hydroxymethyl;R.sub.3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; andY is methylene, methylene substituted with a lower alkyl or hydroxyl group, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, oxygen or sulfur, exhibit a cerebral protective effect and are applicable to the treatment of cerebral ischaemia and cerebral hypoxia.The compounds may be made by acylating a suitable piperidine or morpholine with the appropriate cinnamoyl chloride, and if necessary oxidizing the reaction product.

Abstract: Compounds of the general formula ##STR1## wherein: X is halogen or trifluoromethyl;R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen or trifluoromethyl;R.sub.2 is hydrogen, methyl or hydroxymethyl;R.sub.3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; andY is methylene, methylene substituted with a lower alkyl or hydroxyl group, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, oxygen or sulfur, exhibit a cerebral protective effect and are applicable to the treatment of cerebral ischaemia and cerebral hypoxia.The compounds may be made by acylating a suitable piperidine or morpholine with the appropriate cinnamoyl chloride, and if necessary oxidizing the reaction product.

Abstract: Tetra-N-acetyl-chitotetraose, penta-N-acetylchitopentaose and hexa-N-acetyl-chitohexaose, ones of the water-soluble chitin-oligomers, may be obtained in improved yields, when finely ground chitin is quickly and intimately mixed with a concentrated hydrohalogenic acid containing a particular proportion of the hydrogen halide per a unit quantity of the chitin under the irradiation with ultrasonic waves and also under the agitation by mechanical stirrer, followed by hydrolyzing the chitin in the resulting homogeneous mixture comprising the chitin and the concentrated hydrohalogenic acid while said homogeneous mixture is further continuously irradiated with the ultrasonic waves and also agitated by the mechanical stirrer. From the aqueous phase of the hydrolyzed reaction mixture are recovered the desired water-soluble chitin-oligomers which are each useful as an immunopotentiating, antitumor agent or antifungal, antibacterial agent.