Abstract: There is provided a carrier for hydrophobic drugs, and pharmaceutical compositions based thereon, which carrier comprises a digestible oil and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant component for dispersing the oil in vivo upon administration of the carrier, which comprises a hydrophilic surfactant, said surfactant component being such as not to substantially inhibit the in vivo lipolysis of the digestible oil.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 1997
Date of Patent:
August 1, 2000
Assignee:
R. P. Scherer Corporation
Inventors:
Jonathan E. Lacy, Jonathan K. Embleton, Elizabeth A. Perry