Topical pharmaceutical compositions containing ciclopirox or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof
AssigneeGlenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A.
InventorsNilendu Sen, Hemalatha S. Guntur
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Abstract
Pharmaceutical topical oil in water type emulsion gels comprising ciclopirox or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are disclosed.
Claims10
A topical composition comprising ciclopirox or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers in the form of an emulsion gel.
A process for the preparation of an emulsion gel composition, the process comprising (a) dissolving a surfactant in water to form an aqueous phase;
- (b) preparing an oil phase;
- (c) adding the oil phase to the aqueous phase and homogenizing;
- (d) dissolving ciclopirox in a polar solvent;
- and (e) adding the ciclopirox solution to the oil/aqueous phase.
A process for the preparation of emulsion gel composition, the process comprising (a) dissolving a surfactant in water to form an aqueous phase;
- (b) preparing an oil phase by solubilizing cicloporox in an oil;
- and (c) adding the oil phase to the aqueous phase and homogenizing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.