FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics.
SUBSTANCE: pharmaceutical compositions in the form of a mouth dissolving tablet are described. The composition contains an effective amount of a narcotic active material representing fentanyl, and arginine being a pharmaceutically acceptable amine. The molar ratio of arginine to said active material is at least approximately 5:1. In the preferential version of the invention, tablet disintegration time in vivo is 5 to 25 minutes.
EFFECT: invention provides enhanced fentanyl absorption in transbuccal administration of the tablets.
7 cl, 2 tbl, 3 ex
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Dates
2011-01-10—Published
2006-07-21—Filed