Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Company, Inc.

Hiroyuki Araki

Hiroaki Kobayashi

Yuka Takagi

Takao Kurokawa

Yoko Fujiwara

The present invention provides a rotigotine-containing patch comprising: a backing layer; and an adhesive agent layer, wherein the adhesive agent layer contains rotigotine and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, the adhesive agent layer further contains a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer, a petroleum-based resin and/or a terpene-based resin, an aliphatic alcohol, and a cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone, and in the adhesive agent layer, a mass ratio of a content of the rotigotine and/or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in terms of rotigotine free form and a content of the cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone (content of the rotigotine and/or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in terms of rotigotine free form:content of the cross-linked polyvinylpyrrolidone) is 10:3 to 1:3.

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Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroyuki Araki