Pharmaceutical dosage form for application to mucous membranes
AssigneeEsoCap AG
InventorsMalte Bogdahn, Kirsten Kirsch, Michael Grimm, Mirko Koziolek, Werner Weitschies
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form for application to a mucous membrane, in particular to a buccal, intestinal, rectal or vaginal mucous membrane, comprising at least one sheet like, in particular film shaped, foil shaped or wafer shaped preparation comprising the active pharmaceutical ingredient, a release mechanism, and a trigger mechanism, wherein the trigger mechanism is adapted to trigger, at a predetermined site of action, in particular of the gastrointestinal tract, of the rectum or of the vagina, the release of the sheet like preparation by the release mechanism.
Claims18
A pharmaceutical dosage form (1) for the application to a gastrointestinal mucous membrane, comprising at least
- a film shaped, foil shaped or wafer shaped, preparation (3) comprising the active pharmaceutical ingredient,
- a release mechanism (4) and
- a trigger mechanism (5), wherein
- the trigger mechanism (5) is adapted to trigger, at a predetermined site of action of the gastrointestinal tract, the release of the film shaped, foil shaped or wafer shaped preparation (3) by the release mechanism (4);
- further comprising a shell (2), wherein the shell (2) contains the film shaped, foil shaped or wafer shaped preparation (3) comprising the active pharmaceutical ingredient, and wherein the shell (2) comprises at least one aperture (6), wherein the trigger mechanism is a holding device which is exposed to the outside of the shell, wherein the holding device is a broadened part of the preparation (3) or is attached to the preparation, and wherein the release mechanism comprises a string member, wherein the preparation (3) is mucoadhesive and is adapted to at least partially form the string member, and wherein the string member is mucoadhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.