Recombinant protein drugs /

Recombinant protein drugs are intimately associated with the impressive success story of the Biotech Industry during the past thirty years, some of them belonging to the most successful pharmaceutical products. More than thirty different proteins are available for a variety of clinical applications,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Buckel, P. (Peter), 1945-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, [2001]
Series:	Milestones in drug therapy.
Subjects:	Protein drugs. Protein engineering. Recombinant proteins > Therapeutic use. Recombinant Proteins > therapeutic use. Genetic Therapy. Protein Engineering. Médicaments protéiques. Technologie des protéines. Protéines recombinantes. Aufsatzsammlung. Rekombinantes Protein. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Pioneers and business
Recombinant interferon
the 20th anniversary / C. Weissmann
Combining science and business: from recombinant DNA to vaccines against hepatitis B virus / P.H. Hofschneider & K. Murray
First generation proteins
Clotting factors VIII and IX / G.G. Brownlee & P.L.F. Giangrande
Colony-stimulating factors: altering the practice of oncology / K. Welte & E. Platzer
Tissue-type plasminogen activator: helping patients with acute myocardial infarction / D. Collen & H.R. Lijnen
Proteins with new functions: protein engineering
Designing immunocytokines: genetically engineered fusion proteins for targeted immune therapy / S.D. Gillies
Further improvement of protein drugs
Improving protein therapeutics: the evolution of the modern pharmacopoeia / P.A. Burke & S.D. Putney
Principles of gene transfer and foreign protein expression for human gene therapy / T. Friedmann.