Abstract: This invention relates generally to a method for purifying Interleukin-4 or related variants from an Escherichia coli culture medium, where Interleukin-4 and its derivatives are expressed as insoluble protein aggregates, so-called inclusion bodies.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a method for purifying Interleukin-4 or related variants from an Escherichia coli culture medium, where Interleukin-4 and its derivatives are expressed as insoluble protein aggregates, so-called inclusion bodies.

Abstract: The invention relates to acarviosyl transferase from actinomycetes, mainly from Actinoplanes sp. SE 50/110 and its mutants, to a process for isolating, purifying and characterizing the enzyme, to the isolation and characterization of the acbD gene encoding the acarviosyl transferase, to the expression of the acarviosyl transferase in a heterologous host organism, to the use of the acarviosyl transferase for converting acarbose minor constituents into acarbose or for preparing acarbose homologues, to the use of the acarviosyl transferase in acarbose purification, and also to the preparation of production mutants in which formation of minor constituents is reduced by means of inactivation of the acarviosyl transferase gene.

Abstract: N-alkylated 1,4-dihydropyridinedicarboxylic acid esters can be prepared either by reaction of aldehydes with acetoacetic esters and amines, optionally with isolation of the corresponding ylidene compounds, or by reaction of aminocrotonic acid esters with ylidene compounds and subsequent alkylation of the NH function. The N-alkylated 1,4-dihydropyridinedicarboxylic acid esters can be employed as active compounds in medicaments, in particular as cerebral therapeutics.

Abstract: Heterocyclically substituted cycloalkano[b]-indolesulphonamides can be prepared by reaction of appropriate N-unsubstituted indoles with acrylonitrile, followed by hydrolysis, esterification or amidation, or by reaction of heterocyclically substituted hydrazines with cycloalkanones or by subsequent introduction of the heterocyclic group into appropriate indole derivatives. The heterocyclically substituted cycloalkano[b]-indolesulphonamides can be employed for the treatment of thromboembolic disorders, ischaemias, arteriosclerosis, asthma, allergies and for the prophylaxis of myocardial infarcts.

Abstract: New cycloalkano[b]dihydroindoles and -indolesulphonamides, substituted by heterocycles, of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are identical or different andrepresent hydrogen, nitro, cyano, halogen, trifluoromethyl, carboxyl, hydroxyl or trifluoromethoxy, orrepresent a group of the formula --S(O).sub.w R.sup.5, in whichR.sup.5 denotes alkyl or optionally substituted aryl,w denotes the number 0, 1 or 2, orrepresents alkoxy or alkoxycarbonyl, or benzyloxy, orrepresents a group of the formula --NR.sup.6 R.sup.7, in whichR.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are identical or different anddenote hydrogen, alkyl or acyl ordenote aryl, ordenote a group of the formula --S(O).sub.w R.sup.5, in which R.sup.

Abstract: The invention relates to substituted dibenz-oxa-thiocinone-12-oxides and -12,12-dioxides of the general formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 to R.sup.6 and Y have the meaning indicated in the description, to processes for their preparation and to their use in medicaments, in particular in circulation-influencing medicaments.

Abstract: The compounds according to the invention can be prepared by reaction of the corresponding amines with sulphonic acid derivatives, or in the case of the aminooxy compounds by reacton of ketones with aminooxy compounds or alkylation of hydroxylamines, or in the case of the alkene compounds by reaction of ketones with phosphorusylides. The phenylsulphonamide substituted pyridinealkene- and -aminooxyalkencarboxylic acid derivatives can be used for the treatment of thromboembolic disorders, ischaemias, arteriosclerosis, allergies and asthma.

Abstract: The compounds according to the invention can be prepared by reaction of the corresponding amines with sulphonic acid derivatives, or in the case of the aminooxy compounds by reaction of ketones with aminooxy compounds or alkylation of hydroxylamines, or in the case of the alkene compounds by reaction of ketones with phosphorusylides. The phenylsulphonamide substituted pyridinealkene- and -aminooxyalkenecarboxylic acid derivatives can be used for the treatment of thromboembolic disorders, ischaemias, arteriosclerosis, allergies and asthma.

Abstract: Cardioactive compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.8 and R.sup.14 and R.sup.15 can be hydrogen or various organic radicals.