Abstract: The invention pertains to a mucopolysaccharide fraction obtainable from heparin or from fractions including heparinic constituents of molecular weights from 2000 to 50,000, which has a Yin-Wessler titer which is high relative to the USP titer. It contains components whose molecular weights are less than 10,000, particularly oligosaccharides in the area of 2000-3000, comprising from 8 to 12, notably 10 monosaccharide units, among which glucosamine units whose primary positions are sulphated. The last mentioned oligosaccharides include one N-acetyl-glucosamine unit per two units of 2-O-sulphate iduronic acid and per two N-sulphate-glucosamine units, the other saccharide units being of a different nature and including distinct substituents.

Abstract: This invention relates to oxalate-free preparations of heparin, particularly in the form of calcium salts of heparin, which can be used for the preparation of injectable solutions of heparin which have long storage life.The invention is also directed to a process for freeing heparin from its oxalate content, such as by fractional precipitations by alcohol in the presence of adjusted amounts of mineral salt, until the heparin precipitated contains less than about 70 ppm of oxalate but may contain less than about 30 ppm, preferably even less than 20 ppm.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a mucopolysaccharide fraction obtainable from heparin or from fractions including heparinic constituents of molecular weights from 2,000 to 50,000, which has a Yin-Wessler titer which is high relative to the USP titer. It contains components whose molecular weights are less than 10,000, particularly oligosaccharides in the area of 2,000-3,000, comprising from 8 to 12, notably 10 monosaccharide units, among which glucosamine units whose primary positions are sulphated. The last mentioned oligosaccharides include one N-acetyl-glucosamine unit per two units of 2-0-sulphate iduronic acid and per two N-sulphate-glucosamine units, the other saccharide units being of a different nature and including distinct substituents.

Abstract: The invention pertains to water soluble compositions having plasminogen activity capable of activation to plasmin formed of a mixture of different plasminogen compounds, among which native plasminogen and lysyl-plasminogen. It further concerns such compositions freed from the native plasminogen. They are obtained by the selective fixation of the other plasminogen compounds on fibrin. These compositions are useful for the production of pharmaceutical compositions.

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 placental pulps notably of human origin are separated from the placental blood, which is removed, and the pulps are macerated in a solution at a pH comprised between 5 and 10, e.g. isotonic NaCl solution, preferably at neutral pH, in the presence of an amino-acid inhibitor of plasminogen activation, at a molar concentration comprised between about 0.001 and 0.1 M, preferably of the order of 0.035 M. The pulps are removed and the solution containing the compounds of the plasminogen type is recovered. Preferred inhibitors are L-lysine, epsilon aminocaproic acid, and trans-4 aminomethyl cyclohexane carboxylic acid.

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

Abstract: A process for preparing the calcium or magnesium salt of N-acetyl-amino-6-hexanoic acid which comprises reacting directly acetyl-caprolactame with calcium or magnesium hydroxide within an aqueous solution.