Abstract:
DERMAL COMPOSITIONS ARE DISCLOSED WHICH COMPRISE TRICHLOROETHANOL OR TRIFLUOROETHANOL AS ONE COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE HAVING SOLUBILIZED THEREIN A DRUG OR OTHER BENEFICIAL CHEMICAL COMPOUND. ALSO DISCLOSED IS A METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING A DRUG OR OTHER BENEFICIAL CHEMICAL COMPOUND TO THE BODY WHICH COMPRISES CONTACTING THE SKIN WITH THE DRUG OR COMPOUND IN THE PRESENCE OF TRICHLOROETHANOL OR TRIFLUOROETHANOL WHIC ACTS AS AN ABSORPTION PROMOTER TO ENHANCE THE TOPICAL OR PERCUTANEOUS ABSORPTION OF THE ACTIVE DRUG OR COMPOUND.
Abstract:
Drug-delivery device for releasing drug at a controlled rate for a prolonged period of time is formed from a solid inner matrix material having drug dispersed therethrough. Surrounding the inner matrix is an intimately contacting outer polymeric membrane, insoluble in body fluids, which contracts about the matrix as the matrix decreases in volume upon drug release. Both the inner matrix material and the outer polymeric membrane are permeable to passage of the drug by diffusion but the drug diffuses through the outer polymer membrane at a lesser rate so that passage through the polymeric membrane is the drug release rate controlling step. The integrity of the intimate contact between the membrane and the matrix is assured even upon matrix depletion immediately following manufacture and for an extended period of time by reason of the reserve elastic recovery stress in the membrane.
Abstract:
An osmotic dispenser is comprised of (1) a water porous housing member confining (2) a first flexible bag of relatively impervious material containing an active agent and provided with active agent dispensing head, and (3) a second bag of controlled permeability to moisture containing a solution which exhibits an osmotic pressure gradient against water. The first and second bags are disposed within the housing member such that water permeates from the external environment through the housing and migrates by osmosis into the solution contained in the second bag which increases in volume thereby generating mechanical force on the first bag, which mechanical force in turn ejects the active agent out of the apparatus.
Abstract:
A wall surrounding and forming a compartment for containing a useful composition of matter and having a passageway for dispensing the composition is disclosed. The wall is comprised in at least a part of a material permeable to an external fluid. The composition is soluble in the fluid and exhibits an osmotic pressure gradient against the fluid or the composition has limited solubility and is admixed with an osmotically effective compound soluble in the fluid that exhibits an osmotic pressure gradient against the fluid. In operation, composition is dispensed from the device by fluid permeating into the compartment producing a solution of the soluble composition or a solution of the osmotically effective compound containing the composition, which solution in either operation is released through the passageway to the exterior of the device at a rate controlled by the permeability of the wall and the osmotic pressure gradient across the wall of the device.
Abstract:
An osmotic active agent dispenser is comprised of (1) a first compartment of relatively impervious material containing an active agent and provided with an aperture for releasing said active agent to the exterior of the dispenser; (2) a second compartment of controlled permeability to water containing a solution of an osmotically effective solute which exhibits an osmotic pressure gradient against water; and (3) a movable barrier member separating the first from the second compartment. The barrier member is slidably responsive to an increase in volume in the second compartment via absorption of water therein; whereby as water flows by osmosis into the compartment (2) of the dispenser in a tendency towards osmotic equilibrium with its environment, corresponding pressure is exerted behind the barrier (3) driving it into and diminishing the volume of the compartment (1), in turn continuously ejecting active agent thereout at an osmotically controlled rate over a prolonged period of time. In a specific embodiment, the dispenser is comprised of a plurality of capsule half shells one of which compartmentalizing and being free to move within the device, thereby defining a closure for both the active agent compartment and the solution compartment.
Abstract:
A process for storing blood platelets while simultaneously preserving the viability and integrity of the platelets by maintaining the platelets at a pressure of 100 to 1,000 psi and at a temperature of just above the freezing temperature of the platelets to about ambient temperature. The platelets may be stored alone or with platelet preserving agents.
Abstract:
NOVEL ESTER OF SUBTITUTED HYDANTOIC ACIDS OF THE FORMAL:
R1-NH-CO-N(-R2)-C(-R3)(-R4)-COO-ALK-N(-R5)-R6
WHEREIN R1 AND R2 ARE HYDROGEN OR ALKYL, R3 AND R4 ARE HYDROGEN, ALKYL OR PHENYL, R5 AND R6 ARE HYDROGEN OR ALKYL, ALK IS ALKYLENE AND THE PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE ACID ADDITION SALTS THEREOF. THE COMPOUNDS OF THE FORMULA ARE USEFUL AS ANTICONVULSANTS AND ANTIEPILEPTICS
Abstract:
An osmotic dispenser is described which is capable of releasing to its outside environment concentrations of active agent at an osmotically controlled rate over a prolonged period of time, and the motive force of which dispenser depends on the osmotic pressure developed by either (1) an aqueous solution of magnesium sulphate, preferably a saturated aqueous solution, or (2) a saturated aqueous solution of magnesium chloride containing excess magnesium sulphate solute in solid form, against a hypotonic aqueous environment.