Abstract: Mixed or simple heparin salt having a reduced amount of a selected metal ion alone or with another metal ion in a mixed heparin. A heparin salt having a reduced sodium content being essentially sodium free and having a selectively high calcium or other selected salt content. A process for making these heparin salts by reaction with the selected metal salt, including, optionally, dialysis or precipitation. A typical heparin salt is a calcium heparin essentially free of sodium (like containing less than about 1% by weight of sodium), or mixed calcium-sodium heparin with a limited, predetermined content of sodium. Drug compositions containing these heparin salts and a pharmaceutical carrier. The drugs made from these heparin salts are useful as anti-coagulants.

Abstract: The invention pertains to drug oil-free compositions, notably aqueous injectable compositions acting as non-specific adjuvants to stimulate in a host the immunitary responses to different antigens. The active principle of these oil-free compositions is N-acetyl-muramyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglutamine.

Abstract: The invention relates to new water-soluble agents which are effective as immunizing adjuvants. These adjuvant agents are the methyl, ethyl or propyl esters of 2-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-propionyl-L-alanyl-D-isoglu tamine and of 2-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-propionyl-L-alanyl-D-glutam ic acid, the 2-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-propionyl-L-alanyl-D-(.alph a.-methylamide)-glutamic and 2-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-propionyl-L-seryl-D-isoglut amine, the 2-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-propionyl-L-seryl-D-glutami c acid and their derivatives. They are particularly useful to prepare adjuvant medicinal compositions, used for increasing the efficiency of vaccines.

Abstract: A biologically active fraction of reduced toxicity or substantially free of it formed of components having molecular weights not exceeding 10,000-12,000, capable of stimulating in vivo the resistance to bacterial infections, is obtained from bacteria, more particularly Gram-negative bacteria.A process to that effect consists of subjecting a solution of an hydrosoluble crude bacterial extract to the action of an enzyme, such as DNase, which is capable of causing the irreversible detachment of the above said biologically active fraction from the hydrosoluble crude extract which can then be separated, such as by a filtration procedure, from the other components of the hydrosoluble crude extract. The latter can be obtained such as by the treatment of bacteria with a water-phenol mixture, preferably at a temperature above ambient, from about 60.degree. to about 70.degree. C., or by the action on bacteria of a detergent such as sodium dodecyl sulfate.

Abstract: An initial solution of crude urokinase especially of human origin, is subjected to exclusion chromatography by contact with a DEAE cellulose resin, following adjustment of the pH of the solution to a value of from 4 to 6, and of its conductivity to a value of from 15,000 to 25,000 micromhos. An effluent enriched in urokinase is collected. A urokinase, mixed with foreign proteins, especially pyrogens, is purified by a partial saturation of an aqueous solution of this mixture by ammonium sulphate to a value for which the precipitate formed would not entrain more than 5% of the total activity of urokinase of the initial solution. A supernatant liquid enriched in urokinase is collected . A complex of urokinase and heparin, urokinase heparinate, is made by reacting an enriched solution of urokinase with a solution of heparin. It has relative activities of 30,000 to 100,000 CTA units of urokinase for 100 Iu of heparin.

Abstract: Continuous cell lines of macrophages are provided by the in vitro action, on mammalian macrophages withdrawn in situ, of macrophage activating substances, which cause the removal by the macrophages of the other cells present in the cellular medium withdrawn. The macrophages thus isolated are then placed in a suitable culture medium, until the establishment of a continuous line of macrophages, then the macrophages established as a continuous line are cultured in the presence of a suitable activating substance and the supernatant liquid is collected from these cultures. This supernatant contains substances inhibiting the proliferation of the cells having a rapid rate of multiplication. This supernatant liquid is, if necessary, subjected to a purification process. The product is notably useful for inhibiting human tumor cells.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions of stable urokinase-heparin complexes, wherein the urokinase is purified, and methods for use thereof.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of disorders in the formation or regeneration of the cutaneous connective tissue including disorders due to aging of the skin, which composition comprises a homogeneous mixture of vitamin B.sub.12 in an amount effective for the above treatment and a carrier vehicle therefor. The carrier vehicle is a fatty skin cream of a pH between about 4 and 7 which is non-oxidizing and non-reducing and is pharmaceutically acceptable for repeated applications to the skin over prolonged periods of time.

Abstract: The derivatives have the general formula ##STR1## in which X is a hydrogen atom or a methyl, phenyl or benzyl group; Y is a carbon chain comprising 2 to 6 carbon atoms, saturated or unsaturated, unsubstituted or substituted by alkyl, alkoxyl or halogen groups, said chain including if necessary, instead and in place of an aliphatic link, a carbonyl or alcohol group; Z is constituted by a hydrogen atom or defines at least an alkyl, alkoxyl or halogen group fixed at any position of the quinolinyl nucleus. They have high anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities.

Abstract: A drug having an anti-agglutinating effect on platelets and a hypocoagulating effect formed of an association of papaverine or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof with a thiosulphate of a physiologically acceptable metal.