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Abstract

The invention relates to oral medicaments having a modified release of proton pump inhibitors (PPI's) that are, in particular, useful in preventing and treating gastrointestinal disorders. The aim of the invention is to provide a novel oral medicament based on PPI's ideally having all or some of the following characteristics: a) quickly providing relief to the patient by increasing the gastric pH after oral administration of the medicament; b) accelerating the recovery of patients while maintaining this increase in the gastric pH for as long as possible after oral administration of the medicament and, in particular, during the night; c) improving the observance of the treatment and the comfort of the patient by taking the medicament once daily. To this end, the microcapsules of the invention, preferably non-enteric, are constituted of PPI microparticles coated with ethyl cellulose, an ammonio methacrylate copolymer (Eudragit.RTM. RL 100), polyvinylpyrrolidone, castor oil and polyoxyethylenated hydrogenated castor oil (40). This medicament is designed so that after its ingestion for a once daily administration, it makes it possible to maintain, from the first day of treatment onward, an average gastric pH, between 0 and 24 h, of greater than or equal to the average gastric pH between 0 and 24 h obtained by an enteric oral medicament having a reference* immediate release, administered under the same conditions. The invention also relates to these microcapsules per se.

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