Blocking the attachment of germs to human cells

US5683991A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Laevosan-Gesellschaft · AT

Inventors

• Josef Peter GUGGENBICHLER · Fürth, DE
• Peter Meissner · Weingarten, DE
• Johann Jurenitsch · Wien, AT
• Andreas De Bettignies-Dutz · Wien, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 1996
• Grant date: Nov 4, 1997
• Expiry date: Mar 8, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A50/30
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention concerns a pharmaceutical preparation which contains one or several galacturonides as the active substance with a degree of polymerization of .gtoreq.2 and a degree of esterification of <20% optionally together with common pharmaceutical carriers, diluents, auxiliary substances and fillers as well as the use of this preparation to block the attachment of germs to mammalian cells.