Abstract: Naftopidil,1-(2-methoxyphenyl)-4-[3-(naphth-1-yloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl)]-pipe razine, or of a salt thereof, is effective in the treatment of dysuria, particularly in causes of prostatic hypertrophy.

Abstract: New hydroxy-succinimide ester compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is selected from a carboxy-succinimide ester group and radicals of the general formulae: ##STR2## A is -O-CH.sub.2 -CH.sub.2 when n is 2 and X is a succinimide ester group but otherwise is a single bond;n is a whole number of from 2 to 7;m is 1, 2, 3 or 4,R is hydrogen, methyl, or cyanide; andR' is methyl or ethyl.have been found outstandingly useful as bridge-building compounds for linking proteins, especially biologically active proteins, to solid or liquid carrier matrix materials, thereby yielding valuable carrier-bound enzymatically active protein compositions.

Abstract: In a process for the determination of total or bound cholesterol by liberating any bound cholesterol using cholesterol esterase and simultaneously or subsequently determining the liberated cholesterol and any initially free cholesterol with a cholesterol reacting enzyme, the improvement comprising using as the cholesterol reacting enzyme an NAD or NADP-dependent cholesterol dehydrogenase obtained from an anaerobic microorganism, e.g., Eubacterium sp. ATCC 21408, or from mammalian tissue, e.g., liver.

Abstract: New hydroxy-succinimide ester compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is selected from a carboxy-succinimide ester group and radicals of the general formulae: ##STR2## A is --O--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 when n is 2 and X is a succinimide ester group but otherwise is a single bond;N is a whole number of from 2 to 7;M is 1, 2, 3 or 4,R is hydrogen, methyl, or cyanide; andR' is methyl or ethyl;Have been found outstandingly useful as bridge-building compounds for linking proteins, especially biologically active proteins, to solid or liquid carrier matrix materials, thereby yielding valuable carrier-bound enzymatically active protein compositions.

Abstract: Crystalline salts of .beta.-nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide (.beta.-NAD), particularly alkali metal salts thereof are prepared in good yield and high quality to provide an analytically useful .beta.-NAD form.

Abstract: Cholesterol oxidase which oxidizes cholesterol with oxygen to give cholestenone and hydrogen peroxide, is prepared by culturing Nocardia erthropolis ATCC 17895, Nocardia erthropolis ATCC 4277, Nocardia formica ATCC 14811 or Proactinomyce erythropolis NCIB 9158 first on a peptone-containing mineral salt medium and thereafter on at least one sterol compound as the sole source of carbon, and then isolating the cholesterol oxidase formed from the cultured micro-organism, wherein said sterol compound is of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen or together represent a double bond,R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are hydrogen or together represent a double bond, andR.sub.5 is hydrogen or alkyl containing up to 3 carbon atoms.