Preparations for vaginal administration
AssigneeTakeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
InventorsHiroaki Okada, Iwao Yamazaki, Takatsuka Yashiki
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Abstract
A preparation containing, as the main pharmaceutically active ingredient, a peptide having a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone activity, is improved in its absorption by adding thereto a water-soluble aliphatic carboxylic acid of 2 to 6 carbon atoms.
Claims9
A preparation for vaginal administration which contains 0.0001 to 5 percent by weight of a peptide having LH-RH activity homogeneously dispersed in an oleaginous or aqueous base, said preparation further containing homogeneously dispersed therein a water-soluble aliphatic polybasic carboxylic acid of 2 to 6 carbon atoms said polybasic carboxylic acid being present in an amount within the range of about 2 to 20 percent by weight when the preparation contains oleaginous base, or within the range of about 1 to 10 percent by weight when the preparation contains an aqueous base.
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