Health Care
SUPPORT BY ENZYMES IN ALL FIELDS OF HEALTH CARE IS BOTH "HEALTHY" AND "HIGH TECH".
Within the huge budgets of money spent in research and development of drugs the application area of HEALTH CARE is by far the most attractive market for enzyme products and enzyme related products. Pharma screes are the beginning of a long chain of target identification and validation processes leading to the development of drugs with high efficiency and specificity and with as little side effects as possible. The overwhelming majority of drugs for therapeutical use are enzymes of the body and drugs having effects on the regulation of different cellular pathways (metabolic, mitotic, and apoptotic pathways).
Therefore most effectors are inhibitors or activators of enzyme activity, but enzymes are also used directly as drugs for therapeutical use positively influencing life processes. Enzymes for many different beneficial purpuses are distributed to patients as pharmaceutical ingredients.
At the beginning of every therapeutic application diseases have to be identified unambiguously. More and more rational indicators and biomarkers provide objectifyable parameters which can be identified with an increasing number of diagnostic tools available. Many of these tools are designed to be bioassays measuring enzyme activities specific for the detection and quantification of diagnosticly valuable parameters.
Medical applications are not restricted to diagnosis and therapy of defined acute or chronic diseases. The modern understanding of HEALTH CARE includes prevention of disease and integrates life style and wellness into an encompassing definition including everything which is maintaining healthyness in a sustainable continuing process.
Therefore in Cosmetical Applications, where increasing numbers of enzymes are used as cosmetical ingredients, and wellness enhancers are part of an understanding of a holistic medical concept.
Concerning infectious diseases Antisepsis & Desinfection of living (e.g. wounds) and non living (e.g.medical instruments) material is the committing step towards a minimum risk of getting infected and interrupting infective chains effectively. For all purposes mentioned above enzymes are used with increasing success.