動物細胞が産生する代謝物質-インターフェロン

抄録

Various biological active substances were produced provided the appropriate stimulation was given to animal cells. Among them, human interferon is one of the substances most applicable to "drug." On the other hand, it is also important to develop interferon inducers (IFN-Ind.), a stimulater for producing interferon (IFN). This paper deals with a detailed description of the actual states of IFN and IFN-Ind. used as drugs, in which many pharmaceutical scientists are especially interested, and of a new effect obtained by the combined use of IFN and IFN-Ind. Moreover, our study to remove the hypreactivity which has been often detected in the inducer by the combined use of IFN was also described in detail. The clinical effect of IFN and its limitation at the present stage of the development was briefly discussed.