3. INTRODUCTION
• Therapeutic agents are used to the treatment of disease or
disorders by remedial agents.
• Nature is an attractive source of new therapeutic agents as a
tremendous chemical diversity is found in millions of species of
plants, animals, marine organisms and microorganisms.
• Natural products remain an important source of new drugs
and therapeutic agents.
• Microorganisms have great potential as natural sources of
drugs for the treatment and prevention of diseases like cancer,
anaemia, diarrhoea, obesity, diabetes,etc.
• non recombinant organisms are also potential sources of
natural antioxidants, immuno-suppressants, enzyme inhibitors,
vitamins, enzymes
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4. Types of therapeutic agents
• Many different types of therapeutic agents were used for
treatment of diseases.
ENZYMES
ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES
PROTEINS
INTERFERONS
IMMUNOSUPPRESSORS
VITAMINS etc,
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5. Therapeutic uses of enzymes
•Therapeutic enzymes have a broad variety of
specific uses
•Oncolytics
•Anticoagulants
•Thrombolytics
•Replacements for metabolic deficiencies
•Digestive aids
•Metabolic storage disorders, etc
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7. ENZYMES THERAPEUTIC
USES
BASIS ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
PROLACTAZYME
LACTOSE
INTOLERANCE
IT IS A PROENZYME
THAT PRODUCES
LACTASE IN
STOMACH
ABOUT 75% OF WORLD
POPPULATION IN ADULT
INTOLERANCE TO LACTOSE.
STREPTOKINASE
HEART ATTACS
(MYOCORDIAL
INFRACTION)
USED AS A CLOT
BLUSTERS
DISOLVE THE CLOTS
ADMINISTRATED TO I.V DURING
THE TIME OF HEART ATTACH
COLLAGENASE SKIN ULCERS
CAUSE COLLAGEN
HYDROLYSIS
REMOVE DEAD CELLS ON THE
SKIN
LYSOZYME
ANTIBIOTIC
THERAPY
CAUSES BACTERIAL
CELL WALL
HYDROLYSIS
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
RIBONUCLEASE
ANTIVIRAL
THERAPY
CAUSES RNA
HYDROLYSIS
VIRAL INFECTION
TRYPSIN
INFLAMATION CAUSES PROTIEN
HYDROLYSIS.
8. ANTI INFLAMATORY AGENTS
• Administration of some enzymes is shown to be effective in the
reduction of various inflammatory responses
• Chymotrypsin: chymotrypsinogen (the zymogen form produced
in pancreas) is converted to active form in small intestine
• Bromelains: plant proteases purified from the stem or the fruit
of pineapple
• Their anti-inflammatory action is not known in detail. Probably
their ability to degrade protein.
• Based inflammatory mediators play a role in their action.
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9. Proteins as therapeutic agents
• Our body naturally produces many of the proteins that
are act as therapeutics.
• Protein therapy is similar to gene therapy, but unlike
gene therapy, protein therapy delivers protein to the
body in specific amounts.
• It helps tissue repair, illness, treat pain or remake
structures.
• Antibody based drugs, anticoagulants, blood factors,
growth factors, hormones, interferon, bone
morphogenetic proteins, interleukins and thrombolytic.
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12. Systems for producing therapeutic agents
Bacteria
Yeast
Filamentous fungi
Insect cells
Mammalian cells
plants
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13. CONCLUSION
• ON therapeutics can be used to treat diseases such as cancer,
viral infections, inflammatory and genetic disorders.
• There is a wide scope to improve the available delivery
strategies as well as to invent new strategies for successful
application of ON therapeutics