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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1997
Chong Kun Dang Corp., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing cyclosporin. More specifically, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing cyclosporin, an oil component, a hydrophilic cosurfactant consisting of propylene carbonate or a mixture of propylene carbonate and polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer, and a surfactant. The composition of the present invention is characterized in that it can be dissolved in an external phase such as water, artificial gastric juice and intestinal juice, etc. to form a self-emulsion with mild stirring and therefore, by appropriately adjusting the constitutional ratio of each component the diameter of particles in the inner phase of the emulsion thus formed can be readily controlled to 100 nm or below. The composition of the present invention can be formulated into the oral preparations such as soft capsules, hard capsules sealed with gelatin bending at the conjugated portion, oral liquid preparations, etc. When the composition of the present invention using propylene carbonate or its mixture with polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer in a liquid state at room temperature is formulated into the soft capsule, it provides some advantages that it can inhibit the change in the capsule appearance and the precipitation of active ingredient due to the change in the solvent content, reduces the manufacturing cost to provide an economical effect and is substantially less toxic, in comparison to the soft capsule using ethanol, transcutol, propylene glycol, glycofurol, dimethylisosorbide, etc., in the prior art.