摘要:
Mineral oil (MO) polyisobutylene (PIB), colloidal silicon dioxide (CSD) mixtures suitable for use as drug containing matrices in transdermal delivery systems are disclosed. Preferred systems for dispensing moderately mineral oil soluble drugs contain at least about 6% CSD, have a MO/PIB of at least 1.0 and a viscosity of at least 1.5.times.10.sup.7 poises. Preferred systems for dispensing clonidine have a clonidine permeability of at least 1.0.times.10.sup.-4 .mu.g/cm sec and a MO/PIB of at least 1.2.
摘要:
A method for preventing the formation of crystalline hydrates in a dispersion of a hydratable liquid in a nonaqueous matrix is disclosed. The method is particularly useful in the manufacture of laminated items formed from such dispersions and comprises forming individual subunits from such dispersions, heating the subunits, preferably after they have been packed in sealed containers, to a temperature high enough to melt the crystalline hydrate, maintaining said subunits at such temperature for a time sufficient to melt all the crystalline hydrate present and to prevent the occurrence of crystals for an extended period of time after cooling and cooling subunits to ambient conditions. The use of the method in the manufacture of transdermal delivery devices for the delivery of scopolamine base is described.
摘要:
A transdermal delivery system for the administering of progesterone and an estradiol ester alone or in combination utilizing a polymer matrix having the drug(s) along with a permeation enhancer dispersed throughout.
摘要:
Rate controlled transdermal nicotine delivery systems are disclosed which utilize an in-line adhesive to maintain the systems on the skin. The initial equilibrated concentration of nicotine in the nicotine reservoir and the adhesive is below saturation, preferably at a thermodynamic activity no greater than 0.50, and the reservoir comprises the nicotine dissolved in a polymer with respect to which the rate controlling element of the device is substantially impermeable. In preferred embodiments the initial loading of nicotine in the reservoir is sufficient to prevent the activity of the nicotine in the reservoir from decreasing by more than about 75% and preferably no more than about 25% during the predetermined period of administration; and the thicknesses of the adhesive, rate controlling membrane and reservoir layers are selected so that at least 50% and, preferably at least 75% initial equilibrated nicotine loading is in the reservoir layer.
摘要:
Rate controlled transdermal nicotine delivery systems are disclosed which utilize an in-line adhesive to maintain the systems on the skin. The initial equilibrated concentration of nicotine in the nicotine reservoir and the adhesive is below saturation, preferably at a thermodynamic activity no greater than 0.50, and the reservoir comprises the nicotine dissolved in a material with respect to which the rate controlling element of the device is substantially impermeable. In preferred embodiments the initial loading of nicotine in the reservoir is sufficient to prevent the activity of the nicotine in the reservoir from decreasing by more than about 75% and preferably no more than about 25% during the predetermined period of administration; and the thickness of the adhesive, rate controlling membrane and reservoir layers are selected so that at least 50% and, preferably at least 75% of the initial equilibrated nicotine loading is in the reservoir layer.
摘要:
A transdermal delivery device for delivering drugs, typically ionized drugs, from an aqueous reservoir is described. The device comprises an aqueous drug reservoir in the form of a gel confined between an impermeable backing member and a porous support structure. In preferred embodiments the support structure is the substrate to which is applied a porous or patterned in-line adhesive. A strippable release liner is preferably provided on the adhesive while in the package. The devices are usable to deliver drugs such as chlorpheniramine maelate, brompheneiramine maleate and scopolamine hydrobromide.
摘要:
A method of administering nicotine transdermally in which a nicotine patch, capable of administering nicotine for at least 16 hours at rates that are efficacious in smoking cessation therapy, is applied in the morning upon waking and removed prior to sleep. This method is effective even though nicotine is not essential during sleep and many smokers experience morning craving.
摘要:
Rate controlled transdermal nicotine delivery systems are disclosed which utilize an in-line adhesive to maintain the systems on the skin. The initial equilibrated concentration of nicotine in the nicotine reservoir and the adhesive is below saturation, preferably at a thermodynamic activity no greater than 0.50, and the reservoir comprises the nicotine dissolved in a material with respect to which the rate controlling element of the device is substantially impermeable. In preferred embodiments the initial loading of nicotine in the reservoir is sufficient to prevent the activity of the nicotine in the reservoir from decreasing by more than about 75% and preferably no more than about 25% during the predetermined period of administration; and the thickness of the adhesive, rate controlling membrane and reservoir layers are selected so that at least 50% and, preferably at least 75% of the initial equilibrated nicotine loading is in the reservoir layer.
摘要:
A medical device for the transdermal delivery of highly ionized, fat insoluble drugs comprises an aqueous drug reservoir having a physiological pH, said reservoir preferably being a gel maintained in an impermeable receptacle by a highly permeable support member disposed between the gel and a permeable contact adhesive. A permeation enhancer reservoir delivers a permeation enhancer to the skin through the aqueous reservoir and through a permeation enhancer release rate controlling membrane which is permeable to the permeation enhancer and impermeable to the drug and water. In a preferred embodiment the permeation enhancer release rate controlling membrane forms at least a portion of said receptacle.
摘要:
A transdermal analgesic system having reduced potential for abuse, wherein the system provides for the controlled release of the antagonist at a rate sufficient to provide an abuse limiting release rate ratio of the antagonist to the analgesic when the dosage form is subject to abuse is disclosed.