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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2002
Nirmal Mulye, Princeton, NJ (US);
Nirmal Mulye, Princeton, NJ (US);
Nostrum Pharmaceuticals Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a coating composition for coating a solid dosage form of a medicament, where the coating composition controls the release of the medicament, said coating composition comprising (a) at least 50% (w/w) by dry weight of a water insoluble polymer insoluble in both acidic, basic and neutral pH, present in the form of an aqueous latex dispersion, (b) a water soluble non-polymeric component present in a weight ratio of about 5 to about 50% (w/w) by dry weight of the coating, having a molecular weight of less than about 15,000 daltons and water solubility in excess of 5 grams per 100 grams of water at room temperature at 1 atm pressure, said water soluble non-polymeric component being organic and either solid or liquid; said ratio of water insoluble polymer to water soluble non-polymeric component ranging from about 95:5 to about 1:1, the solid content in the coating composition ranges from about 5% to about 25%, said water soluble component being completely dissolved in the aqueous latex dispersion. The present invention is also directed to a system for the controlled release of an active medicament comprising a substrate and a coating, said substrate comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a medicament in association with a pharmaceutical carrier in solid unit dosage form, said substrate being uniformly coated with the aforesaid coating composition.