摘要:
The present invention relates to methods for reducing the risk associated with the administration of opioid analgesics in patient diagnosed or undiagnosed with respiratory illness by administering an analgesic composition comprising a sub-analgesic dosage of a p-opioid agonist selected from the group consisting a morphine, fentanyl, sufentanil, alfentanil, oxymorphone and hydromorphone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a sub-analgesic dosage of oxycodone which is a κ2-opioid agonist or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
摘要:
Pharmaceutical formulations containing opioid components that each has a release profile. The components may provide immediate or controlled release of the opioid. The invention is also directed to methods of controlling release of one or more opioid compounds and methods of treating pain.
摘要:
Pharmaceutical formulations containing opioid components that each has a release profile. The components may provide immediate or controlled release of the opioid. The invention is also directed to methods of controlling release of one or more opioid compounds and methods of treating pain.
摘要:
An apparatus and a method are provided for detecting an enzyme, or or for detecting a substrate of an enzyme or for detecting an enzyme effector such as an inhibitor, by measuring a change in deflection of a microcantilever having a substrate or an enzyme, respectively, attached to a surface of the microcantilever.
摘要:
Forms of epidermal growth factor that are resistant to proteolysis, and gene sequences encoding these forms and having codons optimized for usage by an industrial production organism, are provided.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a novel spray drying process for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions containing small particles of phospholipid-stabilized fenofibrate. This invention also relates to spray dried powdered compositions prepared according to this process, and to dosage forms of fenofibrate (capsules, tablets, powders, granules, and dispersions) prepared from these powdered compositions. The powdered compositions and dosage forms are useful in the treatment of dyslipidemia and dyslipoproteinemia and have the advantage that they provide reduced in vivo variability in the bioavailability of fenofibrate active species among fed and fasted patients when administered orally.
摘要:
This invention relates to process for the preparation of small particles containing a poorly water soluble drug comprising (a) mixing at high shear an admixture of a poorly water soluble drug and one or more than one surface active substance in an aqueous carrier in the absence of an organic solvent within a first temperature range at or above the melting point of the poorly water soluble drug to form a heated suspension containing the drug, then (b) homogenizing said heated suspension in a first pressure range and within said first temperature range to form a heated homogenate containing the drug, then (c) cooling said heated homogenate to a second temperature range below the melting temperature of the poorly water soluble drug to form a transiently stable cooled homogenate containing the drug, then (d) applying a particle stabilizing energetic process to said cooled homogenate within a second temperature range below the melting point of the drug and in a second pressure range to form a cooled dispersion of stabilized small particles containing the drug, and then (e) optionally drying the cooled dispersion to form dried small particles containing the poorly water soluble drug.
摘要:
A process for milling a solid substrate in the milling chamber of a dispersion or media mill in the presence of a two or more compositions of milling media bodies is disclosed wherein all milling media bodies contribute to the grinding of the solid substrate and wherein at least one composition of media bodies provides fragments of milling media bodies that are retained with the milled solid substrate particles in the form of a synergetic commixture produced in the milling process. More specifically, a process is disclosed for preparing a synergetic commixture comprising small particles of a solid substrate and small particulates of a first material of a desired size comprising the steps of (a) providing to the milling chamber of a media mill a contents comprising a pre-mix of a solid substrate, a fluid carrier, a plurality of milling bodies of a first material having a fracture toughness Kc1, and a plurality of milling bodies of a second material having a fracture toughness Kc2; (b) operating the media mill to grind the solid substrate and degrade at least a portion of the milling bodies of first material to produce a dispersion in the fluid carrier comprising a synergetic commixture of small particulates of the first material and small particles of the solid substrate having a desired size equal to or less than a size Sp; (c) separating the dispersion from any milling bodies and solid substrate particles having a size larger than Sp; and (d) optionally removing the fluid carrier from the dispersion to form a synergetic commixture free of fluid and comprising the particles and the small particulates, wherein KC2 is greater than KC1.
摘要:
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising electrostatic and steric-stabilized sub-micron and micron-size stable microparticles of water-insoluble or poorly soluble drugs or other industrially useful insoluble compounds having diameters of about 0.05 to about 10 microns are described. The particles have phospholipid coated surfaces and are stabilized with a combination of charged surface modifier and block copolymer. The diameter of the particles is greater than about 50% but less than 100% of the diameter of particles comprising the poorly soluble drug and the phospholipid coated surfaces prepared by otherwise identical means in the absence of the combination of charged surface modifier and block copolymer. The charged surface modifier provides electrostatic stabilization and the block copolymer provides steric stabilization that minimize particle size growth caused by Ostwald ripening and particle aggregation and provides for small particle formation. The compositions of particles can be in the form of suspensions or powders that can be converted to other dosage forms.
摘要:
A process for preparing a polymer solution for use in "polymer based" oil recovery comprises adding to water the polymer in the form of an aqueous solution, a dry particulate solid or a suspension in a non-aqueous liquid, and also adding a complexing agent for multivalent ions and, where the solution so formed does not already contain an alkali metal salt, subsequently incorporating therein an alkali metal salt. The polymer may be a substantially cell-free microbial polysaccharide gum, a polyacrylamide or a cellulose derivative.