Sunday, 9 February 2014

Products of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Vaccines:-
vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and keep a record of it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.
For ex, Herpes, AIDS

Hormones:-
Hormones are biochemical messenger of a body that regulate body function. A hormone is a class of regulatory biochemical produced in particular parts of organisms by specific cells, glands, and/or tissues and then transported by the bloodstream to other parts of the body, with the intent of influencing a variety of physiological and behavioral activities

Tissue plasminogen activator:- 
Tissue plasminogen activator is a protein involved in the breakdown of blood clots. It is a serine protease found on endothelial cells, the cells that line the blood vessels. As an enzyme, it catalyzes the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin, the major enzyme responsible for clot breakdown. Because it works on the clotting system. tPA is used in clinical medicine to treat embolic or thrombotic stroke.
tPA may be manufactured using recombinant biotechnology techniques. tPA created this way may be referred to as recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA).

Antiobiotic

Diagnostic Tools
Cancer Vaccines
Therapeutic Products
Antifungal
Anti inflammatory