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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Alan Patterson, Belfast, GB;
Drew Holmes, Bryansford, GB;
Norbrook Laboratories Limited, Newry, GB;
Abstract
An injectable composition of higher residual effect with reduced detrimental effects such as pain at injection site, swelling, tissue irritancy or necrosis and containing as active principle a tetracycline compound, either as the free base or a salt thereof with a physiologically acceptable acid, complexed with a substantially equimolar amount of a magnesium compound, is solubilized in a water miscible solvent system comprising, either (i) a) glycerol formal in an amount of from about 10 to 50% v/v; with b) polyethylene glycol in an amount of from about 1 to 15% v/v; or (ii) from about 25 to about 75% v/v of N-methylpyrrolidone, the composition optionally containing a pH modifier in an amount sufficient to maintain a physiochemically acceptable pH, the balance being made up with water q.s.