MEDICAMENT AND MEDICINAL COMPOSITION FOR THE TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES DUE TO VIRUSES,AS WELL AS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TUMORS

摘要

Said medicament is the L-glutamic acid gamma monohydroxamate (GAH). It inhibits totally viral multiplication (it is believed to belong to the category of inducers of the antiviral cellular state), and it shows a cytotoxic activity on different lines of human tumors (both solid tumors and lymphomas), the selectivity of action (cytolytic and irreversible on tumoral cells, and cytostatic reversible on normal cells) giving grounds to think that it uses a metabolic difference between tumoral cells and normal cells. The corresponding medicinal composition is in the form of a lyophilized powder, comprised of the active principle (GAH), to be dissolved extemporaneously in a physiological solution with a view to injection.