Interferon Alfa (NAMALWA) The Japanese Pharmacopoeia



Interferon Alfa (NAMALWA) is essentially a human interferon alpha, which is a glycoprotein (molecular mass: 17,000 – 30,000) produced by the human lymphoblast NAMALWA cell induced by Sendai virus. It is an aqueous solution. It possesses the antiviral activity.
It contains not less than 50 μg and not more than 500 μg of protein per mL, and not less than 1.0 × 10⁸ Units per mg of the protein.