An anti-inflammatory factor a method for the purification thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same

摘要

The invention relates to an anti-inflammatory factor isolated from milk, methods of purifying the anti-inflammatory factor resulting in substantially or highly purified preparations and to methods for using this factor to remove adhered neutrophils from endothelial cells, to prevent the emigration of cells from the vasculature and to suppress the response of lymphocytes to foreign antigens.