Abstract: The invention relates to a completely novel type of micro-capsules, viz. such capsules where an encapsulated hydrophobic or lipophilic substance is surrounded by polar solid crystals of polar lipids which expose their hydrophilic face outwards and their hydrophobic face turned inwards towards the hydrophobic or lipophilic substance. These micro-capsules can be utilized to encapsulate for instance tacky substances or substances to be protected against oxidation or influence from light. Moreover, an especially interesting use according to the invention is the use of said micro-capsules in an ointment base, where the active ingredient is well protected within said capsules up to the use but which at the application on the skin directly comes into contact with the skin surface as a consequence of the crystalline structure of the shell.

Abstract: In an electrode for an electrochemical cell, the solid active electrode material is accomodated in a plurality of electrolyte-permeable hollow fibres, preferably of yieldable plastic.An electrochemical cell comprises at least one such electrode.

Abstract: The invention relates to certain polypeptide fractions for use as an anti-microbial drug, drug compositions containing such polypeptide fractions, methods of reducing the infectivity possibilities of microbes by administering the polypeptide fractions, methods of preparing antisera using the polypeptide fraction, and a method of preparing the polypeptide fraction.The polypeptide fractions are characterized in that they are isolated from the body fluids of mussels, in particular Mytilus species such as blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), and in that they are capable of biospecifically binding sialic acid. The polypeptide fractions are active against a broad spectrum of viruses, bacteria and protozoa.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and material for cleansing fluid discharging skin surfaces, wounds and mucous membranes, which method and material includes the use of a material comprising certain water-insoluble hydrophilic polymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and material for cleansing fluid discharging skin surfaces, wounds and mucous membranes, which method and material includes the use of a material comprising certain water-insoluble hydrophilic polymers.

Abstract: A biological surgical dressing, especially a surgical dressing for wounds composed of a combination of collagen fibers and carbamide, primarily in a ratio of 65 to 99 percent by weight collagen fibers and 1 to 35 percent by weight carbamide.

Abstract: A diagnostic agent for intravascular administration into blood vessels composed of radioactively labelled particles suspended in a physiologically acceptable aqueous liquid, said particles having a size so selected that they clog fine blood vessels having a diameter within the range 5 - 300 .mu.m, said particles consisting of a three-dimensional, water-insoluble, hydrophilic, swellable, cross-linked network of polysaccharide substances, and the method of using this diagnostic agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for intravascular administration, said agent consisting of a suspension of minute polysaccharide particles having a size such that subsequent to being administered intravascularly, they block the finer blood vessels of the body and a diagnostic agent.