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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1997
Edward M Rudnic, North Potomac, MD (US);
John A McCarty, Miami Springs, FL (US);
George W Belendiuk, deceased, late of Potomac, MD (US);
Beth A Burnside, Silver Springs, MD (US);
Charlotte M McGuinness, Bethesda, MD (US);
Krystyna Belendiuk, Potomac, MD (US);
Shire Laboratories Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
A pharmaceutical preparation comprising a stable, surface-active emulsion or dispersion of a pharmaceutical agent incorporated into an emulsion (i) having a hydrophobic discontinuous phase of a long chain carboxylic acid or ester or alcohol thereof dispersed in an aqueous phase or (ii) having a hydrophilic discontinuous phase dispersed in a hydrophobic phase of a long chain carboxylic acid or alcohol thereof. The emulsion with pharmaceutical agent is incorporated into a pharmaceutical carrier suitable for oral delivery.