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AssigneeBelloch Corp.
InventorsYuri Vasilyevich Aksenov, Michael Nikolaevich Ivanovsky, Nikolai Ivanovich Loginov, Albina Vasiyevna Milovidova, Valentine Alexeevich Morozov, Nikolai Nikolaevich Ponomarev-Stepnoi, Boris Alexandrovich Chulkov, Alexander Lvovich Shimkevich, Joel B. Grae
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A method for treating a biological organism in a medium, comprising heating the medium containing the organism by a temperature of at least about 2.degree. C. at a rate which exceeds a relaxation rate of a cellular membrane of that organism, under such time and temperature conditions which do not thermally denature a substantial portion of the biological proteins. A method is also provided for treating a biological organism in a medium, comprising heating the medium containing the organism by a temperature of at least about 2.degree. C. at a rate which exceeds a relaxation rate of a cellular membrane of that organism, under such time and temperature conditions which do not thermally denature a substantial portion of the biological proteins.
A method for treating living biological cells, each cell having membrane structures and biological proteins, in a medium having dissolved non-condensing gasses, to effect a persistent alteration in structure, function or chemistry of said biological cells, comprising withdrawing a portion of the dissolved non-condensing gasses from said medium containing said cells and subsequently heating a continuous stream of said degassed medium containing said cells by a temperature of at least 2.degree. C. at subatmospheric pressure with steam which has been heated above an equilibrium condensation temperature, at a heating rate which exceeds a relaxation rate of at least a portion of said membrane structures and which results in said persistent alteration, under such time and temperature conditions which do not thermally denature a substantial portion of said biological proteins.
A method for treating living cells in a medium, comprising removing dissolved non-condensing gasses from the medium containing said cells, forming the medium as a stream of droplets, heating said degassed medium droplets containing said living cells by condensation thereon of steam having a higher initial temperature than the droplets, wherein the rapid condensation of steam is not substantially impeded by release of non-condensing gasses from the droplets, and said heating being by an amount and at such a rate which is sufficient to persistently disrupt formed cell components of said living cells under such time and temperature conditions which do not denature a substantial portion of the cellular proteins.
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