| abstract |
An anti-HIV agent containing as the active ingredient a polyfucose sulfate originating in a sea cucumber and having the following physicochemical properties and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: form: white, amorphous and highly hygroscopic powder; mol. wt.: about 20,000 $m(k) 200,000 (according to polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis); composition: hexosamine 1 to 7 wt. %, fucose 45 to 65 wt. %, sulfate group 25 to 42 wt. %. |