FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine and pharmacology. There is offered therapeutic agent for osteoarthritis treatment, containing hyaluronane containing 2 to 20 sugar links as an operating component. Preferentially, hyaluronane has the form of tetrasaccharide consisting of two links with a single link in the form of: -D-glucuronic acid-b-1,3-D-N-acetylglycosamine-b-1,4-(HA4). There is offered method of osteoarthritis treatment that involves the stage of introduction of effective amount of hyaluronane containing 2 to 20 sugar links to a subject requiring such treatment.
EFFECT: invention presents a new drug, effective for osteoarthritis treatment with the minimum undesired reaction.
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