Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

Teikoku Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Hasegawa

Masatoshi Yoshida

Satoshi Kawakami

Nobuhiro Kobayashi

Taiki Shibata

Manabu Sogabe

Yasushi Horikawa

The present invention provides a risperidone-containing patch having an excellent drug release property and patch physical properties. Specifically, the present invention provides a medical patch comprising an adhesive composition comprising risperidone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a carboxylic acid; a fatty acid ester; and an adhesive, characterized in that said adhesive is a star-shaped acrylic block polymer having a star-shaped structure in which at least three chain polymer portions radiate from a sulfur residue of a mercapto group situated at the center, wherein the (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester structural units having 7-17 carbon atoms account for 30-99.99% by mass of the whole structural units in said star-shaped acrylic block polymer, and at least one of said chain polymer portions has a structural unit having a copolymer structure of polymerizable monomers comprising a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having 7-17 carbon atoms and a polyfunctional monomer.

Risperidone-containing patch

The present invention provides a star-shaped acrylic block polymer having a star-shaped structure in which at least three chain polymer portions radiate from a mercapto group situated at the center, wherein (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester structural units having 7-17 carbon atoms account for 30-99.9% by mass of whole structural units of the star-shaped acrylic block polymer, and at least one of the chain polymer portions has a copolymer structure of polymerizable monomers containing a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having 7-17 carbon atoms and a weakly basic monomer; and a medical patch containing an adhesive composition containing a salt of a basic drug and the star-shaped acrylic block polymer as an adhesive that exhibits high drug efficacy, that does not cause a decrease in adhesive property of an adhesive base due to an additive, and that causes less skin irritation.

Adhesive polymer and medical adhesive patch

An inexpensive block polymer which is effectively available in various uses with regard to hot-melt resin compositions, pressure sensitive adhesives, carriers for pressure sensitive adhesives, and the like. This block polymer has a structure including a polyvalent mercaptan segment at its center from which two or more polymer segments are radially extended. The number-average molecular weight of this polymer is in a range of 2,000 to 1,000,000, and the two or more polymer segments have two or more different compositions. This block polymer is obtainable by a process including two or more steps of radical polymerization of polymerizable monomer components having different compositions using a polyvalent mercaptan as a polymerization initiator.

Block polymer thermoplastic addition polymer and their production

Block polymer, thermoplastic addition polymer, and their production

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