摘要:
A new and substantially improved type of lipid vesicle, called stable plurilamellar vesicles (SPLVs), are described, as well as the process for making the same and X-ray diffraction methods for identifying the same. SPLVs are characterized by lipid bilayers enclosing aqueous compartments containing one or more entrapped solutes, the concentration of such solutes in each aqueous compartment being substantially equal to the emunization of solutes used to prepare the SPLVs. The bilayers of SPLVs are substantially non-compressed. SPLVs are stable during storage and can be used in vivo for the sustained release of compounds and in the treatment of disease.
摘要:
A pharmacological agent-lipid solution preparation comprising a lipophilic pharmacological agent, a desalted charged lipid and an aqueous-miscible lipid solvent such that upon introduction into an aqueous medium a suspension of lipid aggregates associated with the pharmacological agent are formed, and methods of manufacture and use.
摘要:
A new and substantially improved type of lipid vesicle, called stable plurilamellar vesicles (SPLVs), are described, as well as the process for making the same and X-ray diffraction methods for identifying the same. SPLVs are characterized by lipid bilayers enclosing aqueous compartments containing one or more entrapped solutes, the concentration of such solutes in each aqueous compartment being substantially equal to the concentration of solutes used to prepare the SPLVs. The bilayers of SPLVs are substantially non-compressed. SPLVs are stable during storage and can be used in vivo for the sustained release of compounds and in the treatment of disease.
摘要:
Lipid matrix carriers are described which provide for the sustained release of bioactive agents in vivo or in vitro. The properties of the lipid matrix carriers of the present invention include high entrapment efficiencies; release of entrapped compounds in their active form; biodegradability and avoidance of vascular occlusion in vivo; and avoidance of sequestration of the bioactive agent in the liver and spleen.
摘要:
Compositions and methods for maintaining reservoirs of bioactive agents by sequestering the reservoir in a gel matrix are described. In particular, liposomes containing an entrapped bioactive agent are sequestered in a gel matrix. The resulting liposome-gel compositions may be used in vivo or in vitro to provide for sustained release of the bioactive agent. The gel matrix inhibits the dispersion and clearance of the sequestered liposomes without interfering with the ability of the liposomes to release the entrapped bioactive agent. Furthermore, the rate of release of the bioactive agent from the liposome-gel compositions may be varied by altering the composition of the liposomes and/or gels.
摘要:
A method for producing multilamellar coalescence vesicles (MLCVs) containing increased amounts of biologically active compound is disclosed. The method involves hydrating at least one powdered lipid in an aqueous buffer at a temperature above the phase transition temperature of the highest melting lipid to form multilamellar vesicles, reducing the size of the multilamellar vesicles to about 20-400 nm to produce small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) or large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) or a mixture thereof; and incubating the SUVs, LUVs or mixture thereof with a biologically active compound in an aqueous solution under sufficient conditions to form MLCVs containing the biologically active compound without the use of an organic solvent, a freeze-thawing step or a dehydration step. MLCVs produced by this method contain increased amounts of biologically active compound over prior art liposomes produced with an organic solvent, a freeze-thawing step or a dehydration step and fewer vesicles are substantially free of biologically active compound
摘要:
A vaccine comprising a liposome preparation including at least one B-cell malignancy-associated antigen, IL-2, alone or in combination with at least one other cytokine, and at least one type of lipid molecule, is useful in a method of inducing humoral and cellular immune responses against malignant B-cells in a mammal.
摘要:
Membrane-proteoliposome structures (MPs) are useful in preparing patient-specific vaccines against specific white blood cell (WBC) malignancies. The inventive MPs typically contain a membrane component derived from a specific WBC. Other useful components include immunostimulators and exogenous lipids. The resulting vaccines are both patient- and malignancy-specific.
摘要:
The invention encompasses mixtures of antimicrobial agents coencapsulated in liposomes which when administered in vivo exert an enhanced therapeutic effect. The therapeutic effectiveness of the coencapsulated antimocrobial agents is greater than that of the same combination administered either in solution or as a mixture of liposome populations each containing one of the antimicrobial agents.