Hyposensitization agent

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A novel hyposensitization agent was prepared by covalently attaching a saccharide, e.g. homo- and heteroglycans, for example, starch, amylose, dextran polysucrose, pullulan, elsinan, curdlan gum arabic, gum tragacanth, guar, gum, xanthan gum carrageenan, pectin, cellulose, glucomannan chitosan, and lipopolysaccharide, and their derivatives and partial hydrolysates to, a cedar pollen allergen. The hyposensitization agent can be administered to a cedar pollinosis patient without fear of eliciting anaphylaxis and allergy within a shortened hyposensitization period because the hyposensitization agent much more enhances the producibilities of immunoglobulin G and M antibodies which are specific …