Carrier base material for prolonged release therapeutic compositions

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4357469
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06278568

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A carrier base material adapted to be combined with a therapeutically active medicament and shaped and compressed to form a sustained release therapeutic composition having a long-lasting, slow and regular incremental release of the medicament upon administration, the carrier base material being hydroxypropylmethylcellulose or a mixture of hydroxypropylmethylcellulose and either up to 30% ethylcellulose or 30% sodium carboxymethylcellulose or both, and wherein the carrier base material has been subjected to hydrolysis and oxidation successively or concurrently until the carbonyl content ranges from 0.2-3.0 grams/100 grams, the carboxyl content ranges from 0.60-2.60 grams/100 grams and the moisture content is in the range of 0.5-3.9%.

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  • FOREST LABORATORIES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Schor, Joseph M Locust Valley, NY 6 975

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