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US 6,274,356 B1Granted
Carbohydrate complex extracted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and process for the preparation thereof
OwnerTai-Ho Chung, Chong-Chan Chunginventors
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Abstract
A carbohydrate complex, which is a mixture of low molecular-weight polysaccharides of an arabinomannan structure extracted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is highly effective in treating various cancer patients without incurring any adverse side effects.
Claims8
An extract of Mycobacterium tuberculosis consisting essentially of polysaccharides comprising mannose, arabinose, glucose and galactose as constituents thereof, wherein the weight average molecular weight of each polysaccharide is 7,000 or less and the partial acid hydrolysis product of the polysaceharides comprises:
- Man-Man-Man-Man-Man-Ara-Ara-Ara-Ara-Ara-Ara;
- wherein n, o and p are individually an integer;
- and x is a chain of glucose and galactose residues.
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