Freeze-dried placebo pharmaceutical composition designed to imitate a medicine, in particular based on proteins or polypeptides
US6242423A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 18, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jun 5, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 18, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61K47/183
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The invention discloses a lyophilized pharmaceutical composition designed to imitate a medicinal product containing proteins or peptides, free of medicinal product, and is capable of being used as a placebo, characterized in that the composition comprises an excipient for the medicinal product, one or more alcohol-sugars on crystalline form and/or one or more amino acids in crystalline form. The composition has osmolarity ranging between 250 and 650 milliosmoles after being restored in the form of solution. The pharmaceutical composition can be used for injection or for percutaneous or ocular application.
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