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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Prabhakar R Sheth, Pearl River, NY (US);
Jacques L Tossounian, Pine Brook, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 22 ; 424 19 ;
Abstract
Sustained release pharmaceutical capsules suitable for oral administration and particularly suitable for sustained release therapy with certain benzodiazepines, e.g. chlordiazepoxide and diazepam, are disclosed. The formulation contained in the disclosed capsules is hydrodynamically balanced to be buoyant in gastric fluid thereby remaining buoyant in the gastric fluid until substantially all of the medicament therein has been released.