Pharmaceutical composition of alogliptin and metformin
AssigneeTorrent Pharmaceuticals Limited
InventorsJaya Abraham, Suryakant Navale, Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Muzaffar Madny
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Abstract
Present invention relates to a stable pharmaceutical composition comprising intimate mixture of alogliptin and metformin, and suitable pharmaceutically acceptable excipient/s; wherein metformin is present in about 3.3 parts or more parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the total weight of part comprising alogliptin. Invention also encompasses various processes of preparing said pharmaceutical composition and its use in improving glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Claims14
A stable pharmaceutical composition comprising intimate mixture of alogliptin and metformin and optionally with pharmaceutically acceptable excipients;
- wherein metformin is present in about 3.3 parts or more parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the total weight of part comprising alogliptin.
A stable pharmaceutical composition comprising:
- 1) intragranular component comprising a part comprising alogliptin and metformin in intimate mixture and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipient(s);
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- 2) extragranular component comprising one or more suitable pharmaceutically acceptable excipient(s).
A process of preparation of a stable pharmaceutical composition comprising intimate mixture of alogliptin and metformin, comprising:
- 1) mixing alogliptin and metformin and optionally adding one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipient to the obtained mixture;
- 2) optionally granulating the mixture of step 1;
- 3) granulating metformin and optionally one or more pharmaceutical excipient(s);
- 4) mixing mixture of step 1 or granules of step 2, and 3 and optionally adding one or more pharmaceutical excipient(s);
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- 5) preparing pharmaceutical composition from the mixture obtained in step 4.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.