Pharmaceutical compositions
AssigneeNovartis AG
InventorsPatrice Guitard, Barbara Haeberlin, Rainer Link, Friedrich Richter
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Abstract
A pharmaceutical composition in the form of a solid dispersion comprising a macrolide, e.g. a rapamycin or an ascomycin, and a carrier medium.
Claims10
A pharmaceutical composition in the form of a solid dispersion comprising a rapamycin or an ascomycin and a carrier medium.
A pharmaceutical composition in the form of a solid dispersion comprising rapamycin or 40-0-(2-hydroxy)ethyl rapamycin and a carrier medium comprising a water-soluble polymer.
A composition as claimed in any preceding claim comprising up to 30% by weight of the rapamycin.
A composition as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the water-soluble polymer is hydroxypropylmethylcellulose in an amount by weight of up to about 95%.
A composition as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the weight ratio of rapamycin to polymer is less than 1:4.
A pharmaceutical composition in the form of a solid dispersion comprising 33-epi-chloro-33-desoxy-ascomycin and a carrier medium.
A composition as claimed in claim 9 wherein the carrier medium comprises a water-soluble polymer or a cyclodextrin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.