Abstract:
A method of assaying primary amines or cyanide is disclosed. The process is carried out by reacting a substituted or unsubstituted naphthalene-2,3-dicarboxaldehyde or o-phthalaldehyde, reactive with primary amines and cyanide, with cyanide ions and at least one primary amine to form an adduct amenable to fluorometric or electrochemical assaying techniques. The adduct is then fluorometrically or electrochemically assayed.Also disclosed are 1-cyano-benz[f]isoindole adducts.
Abstract:
Certain novel cyclic ureas are disclosed herein as dermal penetration enhancers of drug absorption. Also disclosed herein are compositions, methods of treatment and processes for preparing said cyclic urea compounds.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a unique drug delivery system for delivering drugs to a body cavity. The drug delivery system comprises a medicament and a polymer such that the drug delivery system is a liquid at room temperature but forms a semi-solid or gel at the body temperature in the body cavity.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a unique drug delivery system for application to the skin which drug delivery system is a liquid at room temperature, but when administered topically to the skin becomes a semi-solid or gel when warmed by the body.
Abstract:
A method and drug form are provided for increasing the oral absorption of .beta.-lactam antibiotics such as the penicillins, cephalosporins and related chemical species by the oral administration of said .beta.-lactam antibiotics in a suitable pharmaceutically accepted excipient to which has been added a hydroxy aryl or hydroxy aralkyl acid or salt, amide or ester thereof. The hydroxyaryl or hydroxyaralkyl acid or salt, amide or ester thereof is present in the drug form in quantities sufficient to be effective in enhancing the rate of oral absorption of the .beta.-lactam antibiotic.
Abstract:
A method and drug form are provided for increasing the oral absorption of polar bioactive agents such as polypeptides by the oral administration of said polar bioactive agents in a suitable pharmaceutically accepted excipient to which has been added a hydroxyaromatic acid or salt as an adjuvant thereof. The adjuvant is present in the drug form in quantities sufficient to be effective in enhancing the rate of oral absorption of the polar bioactive agents.
Abstract:
Complexes of the formula:A.X.sub.nwherein A represents doxorubicin; wherein X represents Ca.sup.++, Mg.sup.++, Zn.sup.++, or Ni.sup.++ ; and wherein n represents one or two having enhanced stability are disclosed.The above-described compounds are inorganic complexes of a well-known and regulatory approved compound, doxorubicin, useful in the treatment of a variety of carcinomas. These complexes offer enhanced stability over doxorubicin per se.
Abstract:
An osmotic device is disclosed for dispensing a drug. The device comprises an exterior wall surrounding a first and second compartment. The first compartment is in contact with the exterior wall and the second compartment is surrounded by an interior wall that is in contact with the exterior wall. A passageway exists through the exterior wall connecting the first compartment with the exterior of the device, and a passageway exists through the interior wall connecting the second with the first compartment. The first compartment contains an osmotic solute that exhibits an osmotic pressure gradient across the wall against an external fluid, and the second compartment contains a drug that exhibits an osmotic pressure gradient across the wall against the fluid. The exterior and the interior walls are permeable to the passage of the fluid, and they are impermeable to the passage of solute and drug, but the rate of fluid, permeability is greater through the exterior than through the interior wall. In operation, fluid in imbibed through the walls into the compartments and at a greater rate into the first compartment forming a more dilute solution therein than the drug solution formed in the second compartment, said drug solution passing from the second compartment through the passageway into the compartment and being diluted in the first compartment, with the diluted drug solution passing from the first compartment through the passageway to the exterior of the device.
Abstract:
Rapid therapeutically effective antimalarial levels of a member selected from the group consisting of 6,8-Dichloro-.alpha.-(dibutyl-amino-methyl-2-(3',4'-dichlorophenyl-4-quinolinemethanol, 3-Dibutylamino-1-[2,6-bis(4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-4-pyridyl]propanol and 1,3-Dichloro-6-trifluoromethyl-9-[1-hydroxy-3-(dibutylamino) propyl]-phenanthrene are achieved by dissolving the same in an organic fatty acid of the formula: R-CCOH, wherein R represents a member selected from the group consisting of a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group of from seven to twenty carbon atoms and a mono-, di-, tri-, or tetra-unsaturated hydrocarbon group of from seven to twenty carbon atoms, and subsequently administering said acid containing the dissolved compound to a warm-blooded animal (e.g., human) afflicted with malaria.Because of the extremely poor solubility of the above-described antimalarial compounds, therapeutically effective antimalarial blood levels of the same have only been able to be achieved when such compounds are administered around the clock for extended periods of time. The method of this invention substantially enhances the bioavailability of these compounds and thus permits rapid therapeutically effective antimalarial blood levels of the same to be achieved.
Abstract:
Drug-delivery device for releasing a drug at a continuous and controlled rate for a prolonged period of time is comprised of a shaped body of polymeric material containing a pharmaceutically acceptable drug and permeable to passage of the drug by diffusion. The polymeric material is an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having a vinyl acetate content of about 4 to 80% by weight and a melt index of about 0.1 to 1000 grams per 10 minutes.