Eisai Company, Limited

Ryoichi Machida

Sumio Watanabe

Kouichi Katayama

Masanori Kayano

Yasuo Ishibashi

Masahiro Kawahara

Kazuo Taki

Ichiro Yamakawa

Isamu Hasegawa

Formation of a drug into microspheres by an oil-on-water solvent evaporation process in which a mixed solvent of at least one water-insoluble solvent and at least one water-miscible solvent is used as a solvent of an oil phase. A fatty acid or a salt thereof or at least one glycerin fatty acid ester and/or at least one propylene glycol fatty acid ester are added to the mixed solvent. The oil phase may also comprise the mixed solvent; a fatty acid or a salt thereof; and at least one glycerin fatty acid ester and/or at least one propylene glycol fatty acid ester. This oil phase is mixed and emulsified with an aqueous phase to form an oil-in-water emulsion. The emulsion with a drug contained therein is then subjected to an oil-in water solvent evaporation to produce the microspheres. The resulting drug-containing microspheres contain the drug at a high concentration and slowly release from the initial stage after administration.

Process for producing drug-containing microspheres by oil-in-water

A preparation containing a cephalosporin medicament is disclosed. The preparation comprises a cephalosporin derivative represented by the following formula: ##STR1## namely, 7.beta.-{2-(5-amino-1,2,4-thiadiazol-3-yl)-(Z)-2-fluoromethoxyiminoacetami do}-3-{(E)-3-(carbamoylmethylethylmethylammonio) -1-propen-1-yl}-3-cephem-4-carboxylate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof salt, lactose, citric acid or a sodium salt thereof, and arginine or a hydrochloride thereof; or the cephalosporin derivative represented by the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, lactose, citric acid or a sodium salt thereof, and sodium chloride.

Injectable preparations containing cephalosporin medicament

An elastase-containing composition containing 0.5 to 50 parts by weight of sucrose fatty acid ester per part by weight of pure elastase, which composition permits elastase, useful as medicine for arterioscloerosis and hyperlipemia, to be absorbed in increased amount through intenstine.

Elastase-containing composition permitting elastase to be absorbed in

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