Abstract: The invention relates to therapeutically active wound dressings based on polysaccharides, in particular chitosan, and protein, in particular collagen/gelatine, with improved properties, their manufacture, in particular the use of polycarbonic acids and polyfunctional amino acids, and their use, especially in the medical field.

Abstract: According to the claims, the present invention comprises the preparation of chemically modified, cross-linked hemoglobins with improved functional properties, the cross-linked hemoglobins prepared according to this method and the use of these hemoglobins as artificial oxygen carriers. The synthesis method is characterized by technical simplicity as well as by high yields. Deoxygenated hemoglobin of high purity is conjugated covalently under the protection of an antioxidant with an effector of oxygen binding, especially with pyridoxal-5-phosphate, after which the hemoglobin is polymerized with glutardialdehyde as a bifunctional cross-linking agent. At the same time, there is a large increase in the volume of the reaction mixture and a decrease in the concentration of the hemoglobin during the addition of the cross-linking agent. Subsequently, after further dilution with water, a polyethylene oxide derivative is chemically linked to the cross-linked hemoglobins.

Abstract: The invention relates to covalently cross-linked mammalian hemoglobins, to which polyalkylene oxides are covalently linked. Such hemoglobins are surprisingly compatible with proteins of human and animal plasma, under all the possible conditions within the vascular system of the body. The invention furthermore relates to the production of these cross-linked hemoglobins linked with polyalkylene oxides, as well as to their use as artificial intravasal oxygen carriers in the human or animal organism or in individual organs.