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Europäisches Patentamt *EP000681833B1* (19) European Patent Office Office européen des brevets (11) EP 0 681 833 B1 (12) EUROPEAN PATENT SPECIFICATION (45) Date of publication and mention (51) Int Cl.7: A61K 9/14, A61K 9/18 of the grant of the patent: 13.06.2001 Bulletin 2001/24 (21) Application number: 95106396.5 (22) Date of filing: 28.04.1995 (54) Nasally administrable compositions Nasal verabreichbare Mittel Compositions administrables par voie intranasale (84) Designated Contracting States: (74) Representative: Kraus, Walter, Dr. et al AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB IT LI LU NL PT SE Patentanwälte Kraus, Weisert & Partner Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 15 (30) Priority: 11.05.1994 JP 12077894 80539 München (DE) 02.03.1995 JP 6664095 (56) References cited: (43) Date of publication of application: EP-A- 0 588 255 EP-A- 0 648 498 15.11.1995 Bulletin 1995/46 • DATABASE WPI Week 9344, Derwent (73) Proprietor: DOTT RESEARCH LABORATORY Publications Ltd., London, GB; AN 93-348353 Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 224 (JP) ’Pharmaceutical compsn. for admin. via blood vessels - contains microcrystalline calcium (72) Inventor: Yanagawa, Akira, Med. Dr. phosphate powder as carrier for e.g. insulin’ & Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, 224 (JP) JP-A-05 255 095 (ADVANCE K.K.) 5 October 1993 Note: Within nine months from the publication of the mention of the grant of the European patent, any person may give notice to the European Patent Office of opposition to the European patent granted. Notice of opposition shall be filed in a written reasoned statement. It shall not be deemed to have been filed until the opposition fee has been paid. (Art. 99(1) European Patent Convention). EP 0 681 833 B1 Printed by Jouve, 75001 PARIS (FR) EP 0 681 833 B1 Description 1. Field of the Invention: 5 [0001] The present invention relates to a nasally administrable composition containing a physiologically active sub- stance, which attains high stability in the form of a preparation and improved absorbability of said physiologically active substance into the body, when administered nasally. 2. Description of the Prior Art: 10 [0002] Physiologically active peptides such as calcitonin and insulin are polymers which are extensively employed for medical usage in clinical practice, due to their specific physiological activity. [0003] These physiologically active peptides, however, can little be absorbed intact from the mucous membrane of the intestine because they are likely to be decomposed with proteases existing in the digestive system or are high in 15 molecular weight and polarity. Hence, they cannot be administered orally and they can be administered only through injection. The injectable administration cannot be said to be preferable because the injection causes pain at the site of injection to patients. In addition, particularly, when the injection should be repeated at constant intervals, such pain is repeated whenever they are injected and it may often become too severe for patients to endure. Therefore, strong demand has been made to develop a method for administering the physiologically active peptide via a non-injection 20 route and, more preferably, a method which enable patients to administer it by themselves, which further should be safe, simple in administration and administrable with less frequency. [0004] As one of such methods for administering the physiologically active peptides, an aerosol in the form of a suspension, which uses a fluorinated hydrocarbon as a spouting agent, has been developed for nasally administering, for example, calcitonin. As another means for nasal administration, a spraying agent has been proposed as a nasally 25 administrable liquid preparation, which is a preparation in which calcitonin is formulated with a surface-active agent as an absorption promoter. Furthermore, recently, there have been proposed some nasally administrable powdery prep- arations having improved absorbability, which are prepared by adsorbing calcitonin onto a polysaccharide such as cellulose. [0005] On the other hand, up to now, there have been developed a great many synthetic medicaments for various 30 therapeutical purposes; however, there have not been developed into datails for nasally administrable preparations containing said medicaments. [0006] The various techniques for nasal administration, which have most recently been actively developed, are said to be in principle superior as methods for administering such physiologically active peptides as unlikely to be admin- istered orally or as well as for administering such synthetic medicaments. Since the plexus venosus develops at the 35 nasal lamina propria mucosae of the nasal cavity, the physiologically active peptide or the synthetic medicament, when administered nasally, is absorbed through the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity into the circulatory system of the body; however, nasally administrable preparations so far proposed are not satisfactory because of poor absorbability of the active ingredient or local irritation so that they are not commercially available yet. [0007] EP 648 498 discloses a physiologically active peptide composition having a physiologically active peptide 40 dispersed homogeneously in and adsorbed homogeneously onto a unique carrier and refers to compositions compris- ing hydroxyapatite. EP 648 498 is state of the art according to Article 54(3) of the European Patent Convention for the contracting states Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain and Italy. In order to delimit the present application from the disclosure of EP 648 498, it has been indicated in the claims for the contracting states Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain and Italy that the polyvalence metal carrier in the 45 claimed compositions is not hydroxyapatite. Any references to hydroxyapatite in the present description are to be understood as being of relevance for the contracting states Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden only. [0008] EP 588 255 discloses physiologically active petide compositions comprising a physiologically active peptide and a carrier, wherein a physiologically effective amount of said physiologically active peptide is dispersed homoge- 50 neously in and adsorbed homogeneously onto said carrier comprising a polyvalent alcohol of a polysaccharide selected from an alginic acid propylene glycol ester and a hyaluronic acid butylene glycol ester. [0009] JP 5 255 095 discloses compositions containing a microcrystalline powder of calcium phosphate as a carrier for, inter alia, insulin. The disclosed compositions are not nasally administered in powdery form, but are administered via intravenous injection of a solution containing the powder. 55 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0010] The present invention has the primary object to provide a nasally administrable composition to nasally ad- 2 EP 0 681 833 B1 minister such a physiologically active peptide or other physiologically active substances as unlikely to be administered orally, with higher bioavailability and less irritation than those of other nasally administrable preparations so far pro- posed. [0011] As a result of extensive studies and researches on such nasally administrable preparations to achieve the 5 object of the present invention, it has been found that a composition, which is prepared by homogeneously dispersing the physiologically active peptide, such as calcitonin or insulin, in unique carrier, i.e. a physiologocally acceptable polyvalence metal carrier having a mean particle size of not more than 250 µ m, which has not yet been studied as a carrier for use with a nasally administrable prep- aration, and by homogeneously adsorbing it onto the carrier, is administrable via a nasal route - in other words, that 10 the composition can be applied to the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity - to thereby allow a clinically effective treatment. [0012] The term "a polyvalence metal carrier" refers to a divalence metal compound selected from the group con- sisting of aluminum compound, calcium compound, magnesium compound, silicon compound, iron compound and zinc compound. 15 [0013] Furthermore, it has been found that a nasally administrable composition of other synthetic medicaments, which is prepared by homogeneously dispersing the active substance in the same polyvalence metal carrier can also attain equal or higher clinincal effectiveness compared with those administered orally. [0014] In other words, it has been found by the present inventor that the technique of homogeneously dispersing a physiologically active peptide such as calcitonin and insulin, or other physiologically active substance in a unique carrier 20 and adsorbing said peptide or substance onto the carrier provides an equal or higher bioavailability compared with that obtained by injection or oral adminstration. [0015] As described hereinabove, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a nasally administrable composition comprising a physiologically active substance having a molecular weight of not more than 40,000 and a physiologically acceptable powdery or crystalline polyvalence metal carrier, wherein a physiologically effective amount 25 of said physiologically active substance is dispersed homogeneously in and adsorbed homogenously onto said poly- valence metal carrier, and a mean particle size of said polyvalence metal carrier is not more than 250 µm. [0016] Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the course of the description of preferred