Processes of making pharmaceutical formulations of antineoplastic agents
AssigneeSchering Corporation
InventorsSydney Ugwu, Vinay Radhakrishnan, Peter M. Ihnat, Lenore C. Witchey-Lakshmanan
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Abstract
In its several embodiments, this invention discloses a pharmaceutical formulation comprising at least one antineoplastic agent or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and at least one dissolution enhancing agent sufficient to substantially dissolve said at least one antineoplastic agent in at least one aqueous diluent, wherein said dissolution enhancing agent is urea, L-histidine, L-threonine, L-asparagine, L-serine, L-glutamine or mixtures thereof; a lyophilized powder comprising said pharmaceutical formulation, and articles of manufacture thereof.
Claims7
A process of making a pharmaceutical formulation comprising the steps of:
- (i) dissolving L-threonine in at least one aqueous diluent;
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- (ii) adding temozolomide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.