Patent ID: 6187339
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: A61K,A61P,Y10S

Abstract:
A solid pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one solvent or dispersant selected from the group consisting of an oil, an oily substance, an aqueous dispersion of an oil or oily substance, and water, a low dosage active ingredient, and a water insoluble non-cross-linked polymeric excipient that binds water and has a particle size distribution wherein at least 50% of the particles by volume have a diameter of from 150.mu. to 200.mu., wherein the oil, oily substance or dispersion is present in an amount by which the oil or oily substance contributes from 0% to 7% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition and wherein any water present is present in an amount by which the weight ratio of polymeric excipient to water is greater than 5:1.