Patent ID: 9040063
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: A23K,A23L,A23V,A61K,A61P,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing the oral bioavailability of gallium from an orally administered gallium compound, the increase being relative to the oral bioavailability of gallium from the gallium compound when it is orally administered without a pharmaceutically acceptable viscosity-increasing agent, comprising the administration to a human or veterinary subject of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable gallium compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable viscosity-increasing agent, wherein said gallium compound is not gallium 8-quinolinolate and the viscosity-increasing agent is water-soluble and not a cross-linked form of carboxymethylcellulose or povidone, and wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises a viscous liquid or paste.