Percutaneous absorption promoter, a tape plaster and a method of promoting percutaneous absorption

- Lintec Corporation

A percutaneous absorption promoter comprises a derivative of amino acid in which the amino group has or does not have an acyl substituent or a hydrocarbon substituent, the carboxylic group has a hydrocarbon substituent and the part between the amino group and the carboxylic group has a specified structure. A tape plaster comprises the percutaneous absorption promoter described above. The method utilizes the the percutaneous absorption promoter described above. The percutaneous promoter of the invention has excellent ability of promoting the percutaneous absorption of pharmacologically active substances and excellent safety simultaneously, capable of delivering the desired pharmacologically active substances rapidly to the location of treatment or to all parts of the body through the circulating system and effective for curing various kinds of disease. The tape plaster comprising it and the method of promoting percutaneous absorption by utilizing it have the same advantages.

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Claims

1. A percutaneous absorption promoter composition which comprises (a) a pharmaceutically active substance and (b) a derivative of amino acid having the formula:

2. A percutaneous absorption promoter as claimed in claim 1 wherein R.sup.1 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic acyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

3. A percutaneous absorption promoter as claimed in claim 1 wherein R.sup.1 is a saturated or unsaturated linear aliphatic acyl group having 2 to 16 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

4. A percutaneous absorption promoter as claimed in claim 1 wherein R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom.

5. A tape plaster comprising a percutaneous absorption promoter composition as claimed in claim 1 said tape plaster comprising an adhesive material containing the amino acid derivative and at least one pharmacologically active substance coated on a tape substrate.

6. A tape plaster as claimed in claim 5 wherein R.sup.1 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic acyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

7. A tape plaster as claimed in claim 5 wherein R.sup.1 is a saturated or unsaturated linear aliphatic acyl group having 2 to 16 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

8. A tape plaster as claimed in claim 5 wherein R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom.

9. A tape plaster as claimed in claim 5 wherein the pharmacologically active substance is selected from the group consisting of indomethacin, ketoprofen, predonisolone and pindolol.

10. A tape plaster as claimed in claim 5 wherein the pharmacologically active substance is selected from the group consisting of indomethacin, predonisolone and pindolol.

11. A method of promoting percutaneous absorption which comprises promoting percutaneous absorption of a pharmacologically active substance by applying a percutaneous absorption promoter in combination with the pharmacologically active substance to a patient topically and percutaneously, the percutaneous absorption promoter comprising a derivative of amino acid having the formula:

13. A method of promoting percutaneous absorption as claimed in claim 11 wherein R.sup.1 is a saturated or unsaturated linear aliphatic acyl group having 2 to 16 carbon atoms and R.sup.2 is a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

14. A method of promoting percutaneous absorption as claimed in claim 11 wherein R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom.

15. A method of promoting percutaneous absorption as claimed in claim 11 wherein the pharmacologically active substance is selected from the group consisting of indomethacin, ketoprofen, predonisolone and pindolol.

16. A method of promoting percutaneous absorption as claimed in claim 11 wherein the pharmacologically active substance is selected from the group consisting of indomethacin, predonisolone and pindolol.

17. A percutaneous absorption promoter composition as claimed in claim 1 which further comprises an adhesive effective to cause the composition to adhere to skin to which it is applied.

18. The percutaneous absorption promoter of claim 1, where R.sup.3 is ##STR4##

19. The tape plaster of claim 5, wherein R.sup.3 is ##STR5##

20. The method of promoting percutaneous absorption of claim 11, wherein R.sup.3 is ##STR6##

21. A percutaneous absorption promoter composition which comprises (a) a pharmaceutically active substance and (b) a derivative of an amino acid having the formula: ##STR7## wherein R.sup.1 is.Iadd.a hydrogen atom,.Iaddend.an acyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms,.Iadd.or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms,.Iaddend.and R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.

22. A method of promoting percutaneous absorption which comprises promoting percutaneous absorption of a pharmaceutically active substance by applying a percutaneous absorption promoter composition of claim 21 to a patient topically and percutaneously.

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3969087 July 13, 1976 Saito et al.
4732892 March 22, 1988 Sarpotdar et al.
4789667 December 6, 1988 Makino
4808414 February 28, 1989 Peck
4963556 October 16, 1990 Alexander
4980378 December 25, 1990 Wong et al.
5059628 October 22, 1991 Tsuda
5082866 January 21, 1992 Wong
Foreign Patent Documents
2281162 March 1976 FRX
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  • Patent Abstracts of Japan, vol. 011, No. 063, Feb. 26, 1987. Patent Abstracts of Japan, vol. 9, No. 324, Dec. 19, 1985.
Patent History
Patent number: RE36138
Type: Grant
Filed: May 8, 1997
Date of Patent: Mar 9, 1999
Assignee: Lintec Corporation (Tokyo)
Inventors: Eiji Suzuki (Urawa), Hideaki Okabe (Urawa), Takanori Saito (Misato)
Primary Examiner: Thurman K. Page
Assistant Examiner: D. Gabrielle Brouillette
Law Firm: Millen, White, Zelano, & Branigan, P.C.
Application Number: 8/854,136