Claims
- 1. A composition for reducing elevated arterial blood pressure in an animal, wherein said composition is capable of reducing blood pressure in an animal, and wherein said composition comprises an anti-hypertensive factor from hyperimmune milk, wherein said anti-hypertensive factor has a molecular weight of less than 10,000 daltons and is negatively charged at pH 7.0, wherein said anti-hypertensive factor elutes in the third eluting peak of a Sephadex G10 column as shown in FIG. 4 of Applicants' specification, wherein said anti-hypertensive factor does not aggregate in distilled water, and wherein said composition is free of anti-inflammatory factor eluting in the first and second eluting peaks of a Sephadex G10 column as shown in FIG. 4 of Applicants' specification.
- 2. The composition of claim 1, wherein said hyperimmune milk is produced in hyperimmune diary cows of the genus Bos.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED DOCUMENTS
The present application is a continuation of Ser. No. 161,039, filed Feb. 26, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,879,110, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 001,848, filed Jan. 9, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,897,265, which is a division of application Ser. No. 546,162, filed Oct. 27, 1983, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,636,384, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 384,625, filed Jun. 3, 1982, now abandoned.
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