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  • A61K36/32—Burseraceae (Frankincense family)
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  • A61K36/61—Myrtaceae (Myrtle family), e.g. teatree or eucalyptus

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a process for the production of a vegetable redox catalyst (agent), the agent obtained by this process and the use of this agent for the treatment of immunobiological cell weaknesses such as e.g. AIDS and various malignancies.
• an agent against AIDS is to be provided.
• 2-methoxyallylphenol (eugen oil) compounds which can be isolated from clove pulp or clove oil and its isomer 2-methoxyprophenylphenol (isoeugenol) is disclosed.
• This remedy is made up of eugenol and isoeugenol and its use is obviously limited to AIDS.
• this combination of substances can also be provided with the synthetically produced compounds eugenol and isoeugenol.
• ROK is a complex molecular system based exclusively on plants. There are no indications of a process for producing a vegetable redox catalyst which forms the base material for a pharmaceutically active composition.
• redox catalysts are active substances which, because of their biochemical properties, are able to intervene directly and in a physiological manner in the intracellular metabolism regulation.
• the most interesting of these metabolic regulators are those that can increase the overall adaptation capacity of the cell. From a biochemical point of view, however, changes in metabolism mean conversions of biomolecules and thus ultimately electron transitions between molecules and molecular systems. This increases the resilience of the cell (increase in exercise tolerance) without resulting in exposure-related microtraumas (e.g. changes in cell organelles).
• An effective agent in this way is limited to confusable compounds such as hormones, non-specific irritants, chemotherapeutics, etc. in principle.
• An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a vegetable redox catalyst. Another object of the present invention is to provide a plant redox catalyst (ROK) obtainable by this process.
• ROK plant redox catalyst
• a further object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition which contains this vegetable redox catalyst as active ingredient.
• a fourth object of the present invention is the use of this plant redox catalyst (agent), in particular in combination with zidovudine (AZT), for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of immunobiological cell load weaknesses (eg AIDS and various forms of cancer) to provide.
• the vegetable redox catalyst (agent) according to the invention is a bifunctional molecular system, i.e. the agent according to the invention contains both catabolic and anabolically active system components which catalyze redox changes in the cell.
• the particular importance of the agent according to the invention is that it is able to produce normal physiological conditions in the presence of stress, traumatic changes, inflammations, infections and malignant derailment of the tissue via redox processes, which leads to a rapid subsiding of the metabolic depletion (healing process).
• the immune system is stimulated by an increased activation of the T and B cells, which is directly and through an increase in the concentration of cytokines such as interleukin 2 (IL-2), interleukin 3 (IL-3), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha).
• cytokines such as interleukin 2 (IL-2), interleukin 3 (IL-3), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha).
• IL-2 interleukin 2
• IL-3 interleukin 3
• IL-6 interleukin 6
• TNF-alpha tumor necrosis factor alpha
• I.v. are suitable for the therapeutic use of ROK. Injections are very special, but another form of parenteral (intraperitoneal, SC injected) or oral administration can also be used. Depending on the form of administration, 1-30, preferably 5-20, particularly preferably 10-20, mg ROK / day and patient are used as a suitable dose.
• the dose to be administered naturally also depends on the general condition of the patient: if the disease is already advanced, e.g. AIDS and desolate general condition of the patient, the dose may have to be reduced (e.g. to 2 - 5 or 10 mg) in order to avoid excessive autointoxication by activating the metabolism.
• the starting product for the redox catalyst (ROK) according to the invention are leaves of geranium (Pelargonium odoratissi ⁇ mum), clove (Eugenia caryophyllata), myrrh (Commo ⁇ phora abyssinica, C. molmol, C. schimperi) and / or waxcholder (Juniperus communis).
• the leaves are crushed and slurried in water.
• the suspension is adjusted to a pH of 9 to 11 with alkali solution and then stirred for 48 hours at 45-50 ° C., advantageously at almost exactly 48 ° C. This is followed by coarse filtration and dialysis of the resulting solution against a buffer solution with a pH of 6-7.
• the supernatant obtained is initially Purified by chromatography on silica gel or aluminum hydroxide, then ultrafiltered twice, so that molecules with a molecular weight of less than 5000 and more than 30,000 Daltons are separated.
• the filtrate contains the redox catalyst (ROK) according to the invention. It is dialyzed against 0.9% NaCl, brought to the desired concentration (for example 1 mg / ml) of ROK and sterile filtered.
• ROK redox catalyst
• 100 g of the shredded leaf mixture are slurried in about 1000 ml of demineralized water. It is adjusted to a pH in the range from 9-11 with alkali metal hydroxide solution, NaOH or KOH. The mixture is kept at 48 ° C. for 48 hours with constant stirring. The remaining solids are then removed by coarse filtration and discarded.
• the clear supernatant is further purified first by means of chromatography on silica gel or aluminum hydroxide, then by means of two-stage, fractional ultrafiltration with AMICON * membranes; In the first step, all biomolecules smaller than 5000 Daltons are separated against a 5000 Dalton membrane and discarded.
• the separation medium is the phosphate buffer solution mentioned above.
• the second filtration step takes place through a membrane with molecular weight separation greater than or equal to 30,000 daltons.
• the clear filtrate contains the active agent according to the invention as a molecular composite system with a molecular weight spectrum of 5000-30,000 daltons.
• the solution of the redox catalyst according to the invention thus purified is dialyzed against a 0.9% NaCl solution and adjusted to a concentration of 1 mg / ml. Fluorimetric standard methods are used to determine the active substance concentration; the fluorescence excitation spectrum of the active substance (ROK) is at a wavelength of 450 nm.
• Steps 1-3 are carried out as in Example 1.
• Steps 1-6 are carried out as in Example 1, except that only geranium leaves are used in Example 3 and only juniper leaves in Example 4.
• Active ingredient - 320 100 32 10 3.2 1.0 0.32 0 conc. ( ⁇ g / ⁇ l)
• the survival rate of the cells rises steadily as the concentration of the active ingredient decreases.
• methodological difficulties arise in determining the survival rate in that a statistical count (the cells from a drop of cell culture are applied to a Neubauer counting chamber, the 4 quadrants are counted under a microscope, and so the number of Cells per ml or liter extrapolated) of the cells under the microscope, the range of variation of the cell numbers in the different culture bottles can be relatively high in practice.
• the values in Table 1 show that the survival rate correlates with the drug concentration, even if there are individual "outliers" below the values (e.g. 29% at 32 ⁇ g / ⁇ l).
• the lethal dose LD 50 ie the dose at which 50% of the test animals die, was determined in SCID mice. With intraperitoneal administration, it amounts to 1024 mg / kg of body weight.
• LPS lipopolisaccharide
• NK natural killer cells
• LPS lipopolysaccharide
• NK natural killer cells
• a monolayer culture of mouse and mouse mouse fibroblast cells is used after a culture period of l hours, in which the infection with friend virus is carried out first. Three hours later, the following combinations of substances are introduced into the culture:
• FIC CD v. Substance 1 in comb. + CD -n v. Substance 2 in Ko b. CD 50 v. Substance 1 alone CD 50 v. Substance 2 alone
• AZT alone has the highest FV inhibition effect with a dose of 50% inhibiting Foci formation (ED 50 ) of 0.0079 ⁇ g / ml.
• ROK concentration AZT concentration ( ⁇ g / ml ( ⁇ g / ⁇ l)
• Table 8 Friend virus inhibition in Mus dunni cells by combination of ROK and AZT
• ROK concentration AZT concentration ( ⁇ g / ml) ( ⁇ g / ⁇ l)
• ROK concentration AZT concentration ( ⁇ g / ml ( ⁇ g / ⁇ l )
• Table 10 Friend virus inhibition in Mus dunni cells by combination of ROK and AZT
• ROK concentration AZT concentration ( ⁇ g / ml) ( ⁇ g / ⁇ l) 1.0 0.1 0.01 0.001
• CD 50 and ED 50 values were determined on the basis of the test series as follows (data in ⁇ g / ml ROK or ⁇ g / ⁇ l AZT at the AZT or ROK concentrations listed below):
• Table 11 ED 5C values for ROK in ⁇ g / ⁇ l for the following AZT
• AZT concentration ( ⁇ g / ml) 0 1.0 0.1 0.01 0.001 ED 50 10.8 ⁇ 0.32 ⁇ 0.32 7.5 23
• Table 12 CD 5C values for ROK in ⁇ g / ⁇ l for the following AZT
• AZT concentration ( ⁇ g / ml) 0 1.0 0.1 0.01 0.001 CD 50 23 31 110 480 3.5
• the term "immunobiological weakness” means a dysfunction of regulation and adaptation of the cell metabolism, which is responsible for the immune balance. This also includes - as is generally known - that e.g. Virus infections, rheumatic diseases, autoimmune diseases, malignancies, leukaemias, lymphomas, carcinomas and AIDS syndromes, the immunological parameters of the immune system change significantly compared to a healthy person.
• This change which is recorded in an unscreening by measuring the immunoglobulins, the lymphocyte subpopulations, the macrophage phagocytosis, etc., can often even be an indication of the presence of a specific change qualitatively and quantitatively by suppression the immune cells or by defects in the immune cell itself, which is summarized, for example, with "immunological weakness".
• CD ⁇ helper cells absolute CD "abs.)
• CD 4 helper cells% CD 4 -%) are used as markers. Initial values are CD.-abs. at 20, CD ..-% at 5.

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