Abstract: The invention relates to the use of inorganic aerogels as an auxiliary and/or excipient for pharmaceutical active compounds and/or preparations.

Abstract: Cyclic and heterocyclic N-substituted &agr;-iminohydroxamic and -carboxylic acids

Abstract: The invention relates to monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, and their parts, which bind specifically to the nidogen-binding domain of laminin, to processes for their preparation and to their use as pharmaceuticals, as diagnostic agents for detecting laminin isoforms and as model substances for developing and evaluating substances which affect the nidogen/laminin interaction. The antibodies according to the invention, or their parts, bind preferentially to the laminin &ggr;1 III 4 domain, in particular in the highly conserved region of the a and c loops, and are able to inhibit the association of laminin and nidogen.

Abstract: A cellulose-hydrate-based food casing impregnated on its inside with liquid smoke which has a pH of about 2 to less than 4 and additionally contains a viscosity-increasing compound, an emulsifier and a triglyceride or lecithin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a biological wastewater purification plant, in which the wastewater is aerated in an activation tank in the presence of an activated sludge and, to influence the properties of the activated sludge, phosphorus is added under controlled concentration, which comprises measuring the phosphorus concentration in the activated sludge for the control of the phosphorus addition and controlling the phosphorus addition in such a manner that the phosphorus concentration in the activated sludge is greater than or equal to a lower limit and is less than or equal to an upper limit. By means of the method according to the invention, the effluent values of a biological wastewater purification plant can be optimized and the limit values in the effluent of a wastewater purification plant prescribed by the authorities can be complied with better than hitherto.

Abstract: The novel molding made from a combination of polyacetal with directly molded-on function elements is distinguished by the fact that the function elements comprise one or more elastomers. Such elastomers comprise partially or fully hydrogenated nitrile rubbers, one- or multicomponent silicone rubbers or sulfur-containing rubbers.

Abstract: An enhancer has been located in the upstream region of the major immediate early gene of human cytomegalovirus and has been isolated, which enhancer is more active than that from SV40 and has a wide host cell spectrum. Hence, it is suitable for eukaryotic expression systems wherein it can be incorporated upstream or downstream of the structural gene or of the regulation region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula I, A—B—D—E—F—G  (I) in which A, B, D, E, F and G have the meanings given in the patent claims, to their preparation and to their use as medicaments. The compounds of the invention are used as vitronectin receptor antagonists and as inhibitors of bone resorption.

Abstract: Novel inhibitors of bone reabsorption and antagonists of vitronectin receptors The present invention relates to 5-membered ring heterocycles of the formula I, in which E, F, G, W, Y and Z have the meaning given in the patent claims, to their preparation and to their use as medicaments. The novel compounds are used as vitronectin receptor antagonists and as inhibitors of bone reabsorption.

Abstract: Theophylline derivatives having at least one ether function in the structurally modified methyl radical in the 1-position that are useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of states of shock, new xanthine compounds having this substitution pattern, and processes for their preparation.

Abstract: Thermoplastic cycloolefin copolymers (COCs) having high tear strength and low optical attenuation, a process for their preparation, and their use as optical waveguides (optical fibers).

Abstract: In order to produce a polymer electrolyte membrane from sulfonated, aromatic polyether ketone, an aromatic polyether ketone of the formula (I) in which Ar is a phenylene ring having p- and/or m-bonds, Ar′ is a phenylene, naphthylene, biphenylene, anthrylene or another divalent aromatic unit, X, N and M, independently of one another are 0 or 1, Y is 0, 1, 2 or 3, P is 1, 2, 3 or 4, is sulfonated and the sulfonic acid is isolated. At least 5% of the sulfonic groups in the sulfonic acid are converted into sulfonyl chloride groups, and these are reacted with an amine containing at least one crosslinkable substituent or a further functional group, and unreacted sulfonyl chloride groups are subsequently hydrolyzed. The resultant aromatic sulfonamide is isolated and dissolved in an organic solvent, the solution is converted into a film, and the crosslinkable substituents in the film are then crosslinked.

Abstract: The invention relates to lipopeptides with very homologous amino-acid sequences but different fatty acid residues (lipid portion) which are synthesized by Actinoplanes sp. during fermentation and are released into the culture medium, to a process for isolating the lipopeptides from the culture medium and purifying them, to the use of the lipopeptides as pharmacologically active substances, in particular against Gram-positive bacteria, and to Actinoplanes sp. DSM 7358 for producing the abovementioned lipopeptides.

Abstract: Sulfonamide-substituted chromans, processes for their preparation, their use as a medicament or a diagnostic, and medicament comprising them Chromans of the formula I and of the formula 1a having the meanings R(A), R(B), R(C) and R(1) to R(8) indicated in the claims are outstandingly suitable for preparing a medicament for blocking the K+ channel which is opened by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP); and further for preparing a medicament for inhibiting gastric acid secretion; for the treatment of ulcers of the stomach and of the intestinal region, in particular of the duodenum, for the treatment of reflux esophagitis, for the treatment of diarrheal illnesses, for the treatment and prevention of all types of arrhythmias including ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias, and for the control of reentry arrhythmias and for the prevention of sudden heart death as a result of ventricular fibrillation.

Abstract: A plastic foam article 1 produced by extrusion, for example, a plastic foam sheet comprising homopolymers and copolymers of polycyclic olefins, contains at least 10% by volume of open cells 2, 4 which have a polyhedron-like shape and adjoin one another. The deformation-free opening of the cells is brought about by means of an extrusion temperature higher than that for the extrusion of thermoplastic plastic foam articles having a closed-cell structure. This leaves webs 3 of cell walls 5, 6 intact in terms of shape, whether they now have openings 7 or have no through passages, so that the mechanical strength of the cell framework or the three-dimensional matrix is retained.

Abstract: A nail varnish comprising glyceryl triacetate as an active compound and a water-insoluble film-forming agent is suitable for treatment of onychomycoses. If appropriate, the nail varnish can also additionally comprise antimycotic 1-hydroxy-2-pyridone derivatives.

Abstract: 1,3-Difluoronaphthalene derivatives of the formula (I)R.sup.1 (--A.sup.1 --M.sup.1).sub.a (--A.sup.2 --M.sup.2).sub.b --B(--M.sup.3 --A.sup.3).sub.c (--M.sup.4 --A.sup.4).sub.d --R.sup.2 (I)in whichB is ##STR1## and R.sup.1 (--A.sup.1 --M.sup.1).sub.a (--A.sup.2 --M.sup.2) and (--M.sup.3 --A.sup.3)(--M.sup.4 --A.sup.4)R.sup.2 denote mesogenic radicals are suitable as components for liquid-crystal mixtures, especially ferroelectric mixtures.

Abstract: When herbicides are applied, surfactants can affect the wettability of leaves of the plants and the effectiveness of the herbicides. According to the invention, a particular intensification of action is achieved when surfactants from the group comprising the C.sub.10 -C.sub.18 -alkyl polyglycol ether sulfates and their physiologically acceptable salts together with leaf-acting selective herbicides or the leaf-acting non-selective herbicides glyphosate, paraquat or diquat are applied.

Abstract: Ortho-substituted benzoylguanidines, process for their preparation, their use as a medicament or diagnostic, and medicament comprising them.Ortho-substituted benzoylguanidines of the formula I ##STR1## in which R(1) to R(4) have the meanings given in the claims, are suitable, as antiarrhythmic pharmaceuticals having a cardioprotective component, for the prophylaxis and treatment of infarction and for the treatment of angina pectoris. They also inhibit, in a preventive manner, the pathophysiological processes associated with the genesis of ischemically induced damage, in particular associated with the triggering of ischemically induced cardiac arrhythmias.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of hydrophilic hydrogels of high swelling capacity by (co)polymerization of hydrophilic monomers in a fluidized bed apparatus.