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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7262179 | Wound care compositions Compositions for the treatment of wounds and skin injuries are described. The compositions, which include gellan gum, increases in viscosity once applied to the wound to form an immobile gel. The composition may be in sprayable form or dispersed in an aqueous soluti... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7114569 | Methods, cement compositions and suspending agents therefor The present invention includes methods of cementing, cement compositions and a suspending agent comprising boron treated low molecular weight dry ground guar splits. A cement composition of the invention comprises hydraulic cement, water and a boron treated low mole... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7084107 | Methods for stabilizing liquid nutritional products and products so stabilized Nutritional solutions and methods of making same are disclosed. The solutions include protein, lipid, and a carbohydrate source including high amylose starch and guar gum. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6933380 | Excipients containing low residual solvent and method for producing the same The present invention provides low-residual-solvent containing excipients with residual solvent less than | 08/23/2005 |
| 6872820 | Finely divided polysaccharide derivatives Finely divided polysacharide derivatives are described. The finely divided polysacharide derivatives are prepared by a process comprising: a) forming an aqueous composition comprising a polysaccharide derivative and water, in which the polysaccharide derivative is s... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6602996 | Modified gellan gum composition process for preparation of same and use thereof The invention relates to a modified gellan gum in which the total acyl content as well as the ratio of acyl substituent groups to glycerate substituent groups per linear saccharide repeat unit is altered to be higher than 1. The invention further relates ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6596704 | Wound care compositions Compositions for the treatment of wounds and skin injuries are described. The compositions, which include gellan gum, increases in viscosity once applied to the wound to form an immobile gel. The composition may be in sprayable form or dispersed in an aqu... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6528629 | Malto-oligosaccharide derived glycosides Disclosed is a method for preparing a malto-oligosaccharide derived glycoside. Generally, the method comprises providing a malto-oligosaccharide and glycosylating the malto-oligosaccharide with an alcohol or a thiol under conditions suitable to form a ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6455691 | Preparation of chemically reactive polysaccharides This invention describes improvements in or relating to the production of polysaccharide derivatives; more particularly it relates to a method of converting insoluble polysaccharides to a form in which they form part of an anhydrous system in which they m... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6265570 | Cold water soluble starch aldehydes and the method of preparation thereof Stable, cold water soluble, ready for use starch aldehyde compositions and the method of preparation of such compositions wherein an aqueous dispersion of a converted starch acetal is hydrolyzed under acidic conditions to form the starch aldehyde which is... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6103885 | Method of making amide modified carboxyl-containing polysaccharide and fatty amide-modified polysaccharide so obtainable The Invention pertains to a process for the amidation of a material having at least one carboxyl-containing polysaccharide. The provided process involves a first step in which the carboxyl groups are reacted with an ammonium donor of the general formula >... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5739304 | Process for the preparation of water-soluble aminoalkyl derivatives of polysaccharides Water-soluble polysaccharides which contain a) substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, carboxyalkyl and sulfoalkyl, b) N,N-disubstituted aminoalkyl groups, are prepared by alkylation of a polysaccharide in the presence of a base ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5700917 | Aldehyde cationic derivatives of galactose containing polysaccharides used as paper strength additives Aldehyde cationic derivatives of galactose containing polysaccharides which are obtained by oxidizing galactose containing polysaccharides with the enzyme galactose oxidase. The enzyme oxidized products have an aldehyde function at a specific position of ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5593969 | Lipid-A analogs: monosaccharide and dissaccharide compounds for inhibiting binding of lipid A receptors to lipid A receptors A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: each of R1, R1 ', R2 and R2 ' independent of each other is a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear C1-12 alkyl, alkene or alkyne group, R | 01/14/1997 |
| 5554745 | Aldehyde cationic derivatives of galactose containing polysaccharides used as paper strength additives Aldehyde cationic derivatives of galactose containing polysaccharides which are obtained by oxidizing galactose containing polysaccharides with the enzyme galactose oxidase. The enzyme oxidized products have an aldehyde function at a specific position of ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5536825 | Derivatized guar gum composition and process for making it Derivatized guar gum which demonstrates greater than 75% light transmission at a wavelength of from about 500-600 nanometers when dispersed in water in the amount of 0.5 parts per 100 parts water and the process for producing such guar gum is disclosed.... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5502082 | Low density materials having good compression strength and articles formed therefrom A crosslinked, highly porous body derived from a water-soluble, hydrogel polymer, wherein the porous body is characterized in that it has an open-celled 3-dimensional lattice structure, a density of less than about 1.0 g/cm3 a surface area of e... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5473059 | Modified hydrophobic cationic thickening compositions Water soluble quaternary ammonium ethers of polysaccharides or polyols wherein the quaternary ammonium ether substituents correspond to the formula ##STR1## wherein R1 is a monohydroxylated or polyhydroxylated alkyl group containing b... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5454973 | Stable dispersible mineral acid slurry of benzidine derivatives Mineral acid slurries of benzidine derivatives having high stability are provided by incorporating into such slurries a polysaccharide.... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5387675 | Modified hydrophobic cationic thickening compositions Water soluble quaternary ammonium ethers of polysaccharides or polyols wherein the quaternary ammonium ether substituents correspond to the formula ##STR1## wherein R1 is a monohydroxylated or polyhydroxylated alkyl group containing b... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5349089 | Reagent for preparing polycationic polysaccharides Cationic polysaccharide derivatives are prepared by reacting a polysaccharide with a polycationic reagent having one polysaccharide reactive group and at least two cationic groups. Suitable reagents include polycationic alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, cycloaliphati... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5296245 | Plant gum material and use thereof in food products A method for the culturing of gum-secreting plant cells, recovery of the gum from the medium and use of the plant gum in food products is described. In particular, the plant gum product of cultured Pyrus, Prunus avium and Rosa cells can be used in food pr... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5278203 | Method of preparing and improved liquid gelling agent concentrate and suspendable gelling agent Water-soluble, polymer viscosifiers of aqueous solutions, also known as gelling agents, can be suspended in a hydrocarbon carrier fluid, such as, diesel to prepare a liquid gel concentrate. When a liquid gel concentrate is added to an aqueous solution the... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5227481 | Cationic polysaccharides and reagents for their preparation Cationic polysaccharide derivatives are prepared by reacting a polysaccharide with a polycationic reagent having one polysaccharide reactive group and at least two cationic groups. Suitable reagents include polycationic alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, cycloaliphati... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5149788 | Purification of chimeric proteins containing an IL-2 moiety by receptor-affinity chromatography Methods are provided for the purification of interleukin-2 (IL-2) and chimeric proteins containing an IL-2 moiety from a wide variety of sources, including synthetic mixtures, cell culture conditioned medium and mammalian and bacterial recombinant express... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5133979 | Plant gum material and use thereof in food products A method for the production of a plant gum product which comprises the steps of culturing gum-secreting plant cells in tissue culture in the presence of a culture medium; and recovering the gum product secreted by the cells from the culture medium. The gu... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5071978 | Silated polysaccharide process Silated polysaccharides having 0.005 to 2.0 silyl molar substitution per anhydrosaccharide unit form water resistant films when cast from aqueous solution and dried in the presence of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These films are soluble in aqueous caustic.... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5059685 | Cationized polysaccharide derivatives with hypocholesterolemic activity Cationized derivatives of natural polysaccharides having a polyglucoside structure with 50-5000 monomer units and one or more side chains bonded to the glucoside nucleus by a nitrogen or oxygen atom or an amide group, said side chains having one or more q... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5059686 | Silated polysaccharides Silated polysaccharides having 0.005 to 2.0 silyl molar substitution per anhydrosaccharide unit form water resistant films when cast from aqueous solution and dried in the presence of atmospheric cabron dioxide. These films are soluble in aqueous caustic.... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5011918 | Polysaccharides containing aromatic aldehydes and their derivatization via amine-aldehyde interactions A polysaccharide derivative having the structure Sacch--O--Z--Ar--CH.dbd.N--Y or ##STR1## where Sacch--O-- represents a polysaccharide molecule; Z is --(CH2)n -- or ##STR2## Ar is a divalent aromatic group; Y is (a) a ... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5010061 | Guar flour The instant invention relates to guar flour formulations, to be ingested, wherein the formulations contain natural guar flour having a particle size diameter or 50 μm to 1500 μm and neither containing nor having been treated with any additive which subs... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5002934 | Aqueous gel comprising carrageenan The invention pertains to aqueous gels, gel-forming compositions and composites containing the same, comprising carrageenan and a cation of such a type and in such a concentration that the gel has a transition midpoint temperature below 45° C. and a yiel... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5003060 | Readily dispersed/dissolved porous biopolymer granules Solid, free-flowing and nondusting porous biopolymer, e.g., xanthan gum, granules are produced in fluidized bed and are quickly dispersed/dissolved in aqueous media for use as thickening agents for a wide variety of applications.... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4985410 | Quaternary ammonium salts of polysaccharides, prossessing hypocholesterolemic activity Quaternary ammonium salts of polysaccharides possessing hypochlolesterolemic activity and having the following general formula: ##STR1## in which A represents the monomer unit of a natural polysaccharide, m is a whole number between 100 and 1000, n i... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4963664 | Processes for the preparation of amides and amines from a material having carboxyl-containing polysaccharides and products therefrom New amines and amides of carboxylated polysaccharides having the nitrogen of the amido and amino groups directly attached to the polysaccharides and method of making same, based on reacting in solution a material having carboxyl-containing polysaccharides... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4952686 | Soluble dried cassia alloy gum composition and process for making same A process and composition is provided for a hydratable, alloy gum composition of Cassia gum and another gelling and thickening agent which composition is capable of forming a clear, stable colloidal solution. The compositions are usually more easily dispe... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4801699 | Polysaccharide esters containing acetal and aldehyde groups Polysaccharide esters containing aldehyde and acetal groups having the structural formulas ##STR1## are prepared by reacting a polysaccharide, such as a starch, gum, or cellulose, with an acetal-containing reagent which contains a functional gro... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4788280 | Polysaccharide derivatives containing aldehyde groups on an aromatic ring, their preparation from the corresponding acetals and use in paper Polysaccharide aldehydes having the formula ##STR1## or Sacch--O--CH2 --Ar--CHO (II) such as starch, cellulose, and gum aldehydes, are useful as paper additives for imparting strength and as the granular or gelatinized portion of a corruga... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4760135 | Phloretin and phlorizin derivative containing compounds Compounds including phloretin and/or phlorizin derivatives coupled to an undigestible and non-absorbable matrix are provided. The compounds have pharmacological efficacies. They inhibit sugar uptake from the intestine and may be used in composition form i... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4758282 | Process for dry cationization of galactomannans A process for the dry cationization of galactomannans by reaction with alkylidene epoxides in an alkaline medium in the presence of water at 5° to 60° C. and in the presence of finely divided, hydrophilic silicic acid.... | 07/19/1988 |
