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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1999
Mitsuru Akashi, Kagoshima, JP;
Akio Kishida, Kagoshima, JP;
Shinji Sakuma, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to particulate carriers useful as drug carriers in a drug delivery system (DDS) and to pharmaceutical compositions making use of such carriers. The invention is characterized by the use, as the particulate carrier, of: graft copolymer (A) whose graft chain is poly N-alkylacrylamide chain, poly N-alkylmethacrylamide chain, etc.; and a composition containing a combination of the graft copolymer (A) and at least one graft copolymers selected from the group consisting of graft copolymers (B-1) having polyacrylic acid or polymethacrylic acid as the graft chain and graft copolymers (B-2) having a polyvinyl amine compound as the graft chain.