Pharmaceutical Composition

Abstract

The present invention provides oral pharmaceutical compositions that enable the successful delivery of drugs in a pharmaceutically effective amount, particularly poly (amino acids) such as peptides, peptidomimetics and proteins, e.g. hormones to a subject via oral administration to accomplish the desired therapeutic effect. The oral pharmaceutical composition comprising a poly (amino acid) as the active ingredient, e.g. a peptide or protein, shows a rapid disintegration and / or dissolution such that the active ingredient is able to attain a therapeutic effect.

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[0001]The present invention relates to a novel pharmaceutical composition for the oral delivery of pharmaceutical compounds, in particular poly(amino acids) including peptides or, alternatively, peptidomimetics.[0002]In particular, the present invention relates in an embodiment to a novel oral pharmaceutical composition containing a poly(amino acid), for the treatment of a disorder caused by abnormal bone resorption and / or to the treatment of an arthritic condition and to other subject matter.BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTIONHormones[0003]Poly(amino acids) which have been used or proposed to be used for pharmaceutical or veterinary purposes include, but are not limited to the following, including synthetic, natural or recombinant sources thereof: polypeptide hormones such as calcitonins, e.g. salmon calcitonin, growth hormone, including human growth hormones (hGH), recombinant human growth hormones (rhGH), bovine growth hormones, and porcine growth hormones; growth hormone-releasing hormo...

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Benefits of technology

[0019]The present invention therefore provides a pharmaceutical composition that enables the successful delivery of drugs in a pharmaceutically effective amount, particularly poly (amino acids) such as peptides, peptidomimetics and proteins, e.g. hormones to a subject via oral administration to accomplish the desired therapeutic effect.

[0023]In particular, the present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a calcitonin as the active ingredient together with the delivery agent 5-CNAC, where the pharmaceutical composition is manufactured in such a way so as to provide improved oral bioavailability, e.g. satisfactory or optimal oral bioavailability for the calcitonin active ingredient.

[0027]It was within the scope of the present invention that it has surprisingly been found that faster disintegration of the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention in a subject, e.g. the stomach, provides the best absorption characteristics for the active peptides and proteins, where major peptide or protein degradation occurs by pepsin or other enzymes. The present invention thus further provides a pharmaceutical composition capable of delivering a peptide or protein via oral administration without the need for an enteric coating or a peptidase inhibitor. In embodiments, therefore, the compositions of the invention are free of enteric coating or peptidase inhibitors, or both.

[0035]In another embodiment, the composition according to the invention additionally comprises a disintegrant, particularly a disintegrant selected from any superdisintegrant, such as a crospovidone or a povidone and / or another agent that decreases disintegration time, for example by effervescent and / or other means.

Problems solved by technology

However, because the compositions may deliver the active agent more efficiently than prior compositions, less amounts of active agent than those used in prior dosage unit forms or delivery systems can be administered to a subject while still achieving the same blood levels and / or therapeutic effects.

However, those approaches alone do not offer sufficient protection to achieve a satisfactory plasma level of the peptide and proteins, there still remains a need to provide alternative means for successfully delivering peptide and protein medicaments to a patient, whilst protecting them from chemical and enzymatic degradation in order to enable them to provide a therapeutic effect.

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