Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Lymphokine
Patent
1985-03-05
1987-11-10
Hazel, Blondel
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Lymphokine
424 93, 424 85, A61K 39165
Patent
active
047056851
ABSTRACT:
In animals including humans, the symptoms of non-anaphylactic disease states wherein the disease victim's humoral and/or cell-mediated immunological response is involved in disease pathology are alleviated upon administration of compositions comprising mixtures of histamine and one or more immunogenic substances participative in the humoral or cell-mediated pathogenic response. In preferred embodiments, the compositions are administered in essentially minute, "neutralizing" doses. Illustratively, significant relief of symptoms of multiple sclerosis is achieved through parenteral (e.g., subcutaneous or sublingual) administration of mixtures of histamine and measles virus immunogen. For a majority of patients, from about 8.8.times.10.sup.-6 to 5.5.times.10.sup.-3 mg of histamine phosphate will provide an effective quantity of histamine to a unit dose of the mixture. Likewise, a unit does of the mixture will contain from about 2.times.10.sup.-3 to about 4.times.10.sup.-4 times the prescribed vaccination dose of a killed, attenuated measles virus vaccine strain. As another example, rheumatoid arthritis symptoms are alleviated by administration of histamine admixed with an immunoglobulin G immunogen which is provocative of in vivo rheumatoid factor production.
Other immune disorders (e.g., chronic pain and herpes simplex type II infections) are effectively treated with admixtures of histamine and appropriate immunogen(s).
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