REMOVAL OF ADENINE DURING A PROCESS OF PATHOGEN REDUCING BLOOD AND BLOOD COMPONENTS

• Main Authors: GOODRICH, RAYMOND P, DOANE, SUZANN K
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 06.11.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BABY COMFORTERS; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICALPURPOSES; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGINGPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL ORADMINISTERING FORMS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; ELECTROTHERAPY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; RADIATION THERAPY; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; TRAPPING; ULTRASOUND THERAPY

The methods of this invention involve preventing the formation of a complex between adenine and riboflavin by reducing the amount of adenine in a soluti on containing blood or blood components to be pathogen reduced.