| abstract |
The invention relates to methods for the therapy of immunodeficient, immunosuppressive or hyperactive immune states, and to the prevention and treatment of opportunistic germ infections accompanying these conditions. These methods consist in administering to a subject a pharmaceutically acceptable composition comprising as active ingredient the dipeptide L-Glu-L-Trp, the cyclic monomer thereof, the polymers thereof of the formula H2N - [L-Glu- L-Trp] n - CO2H; the cyclic polymers thereof of formula (I), and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, in which n and m are independently 2. |