Patent ID: 7141542

Claim:
A stable liquid formulation of a therapeutically active protein consisting essentially of: (a) a carrier liquid consisting essentially of from about 10% v/v to about 100% v/v water and from about 0% to from about 90% v/v of an organic liquid; (b) a biologically effective amount of said protein suspended or dissolved in said carrier liquid; (c) a stabilizing effective amount of a stabilizing component consisting of a derivatized carbohydrate suspended or dissolved in said carrier liquid; and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient wherein said derivatized carbohydrate is a sugar moiety selected from the group consisting of trehalose, sucrose, glucose, maltose, and galactose modified by the addition of at least one alkyl or alkenyl hydrocarbon group attached to said sugar moiety at carbon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 and wherein said hydrocarbon group contains about 6 to about 18 carbon atoms which may be straight chain or branched chain, and wherein said therapeutically active protein is not an enzyme.