Patent · US Expired

Rapidly resorbable glibenclamide

US4060634A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

Werner Rothe · Rellingen, DE
Helmut Heinemann · Kelkheim, DE
Felix Helmut Schmidt
Gunter Betzien

Key dates

Filing date	May 20, 1976
Grant date	Nov 29, 1977
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 20, 1996

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61K31/64
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A blood sugar lowering composition comprising as the active material particulate glibenclamide having a surface area of about 3 to 10 m.sup.2 /g in admixture with a pharmacologically acceptable non-ionic wetting agent present in about 2 to 20 times the weight of the glibenclamide. The preferred wetting agent is polyoxyethylene stearate present in about 5 to 10 times the weight of the glibenclamide.

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