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Vasoactive lung polypeptides

US4220642A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 7, 1978
Grant dateSep 2, 1980
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Expiry dateSep 7, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S530/848
  • WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Vasoactive polypeptide fractions having biological activity isolated in purified form from animal lungs induce peripheral vasodilation and systemic hypotension. One of the peptides exhibits the property of relaxing isolated non-vascular smooth muscle organs while the other peptide contracted these tissues. The peptide fractions are obtained from the lungs of animals by procedures invloving boiling and mincing the lung, extracting the peptides into acetic acid, adsorbing by alginic acid, eluting with HCl and salting out, extracting into alchol, again adsorbed with alginic acid, fractionating by gel chromatography, e.g. on Sephadex G-25, and by ion exchange chromatography, e.g. on carboxymethyl cellulose, followed by further ion exchange chromatography and, optionally, countercurrent distribution.

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