Patent Grant
8415329
Several compositions of micro- and nano-particle suspensions of water-insoluble or poorly water-soluble biologically active substances such as pharmaceutical agents, and methods to prepare such suspensions have been described in patent literature. These compositions use surfactant molecules as surface modifiers that associate on the surface of the micro- or nano-particles and inhibit the growth of their size. Such surface stabilized microparticles may be administered to elicit their pharmaceutical advantage by injectable or oral or other routes of administration.
Drug delivery systems utilizing microparticulate suspensions have been described in literature (D. H. Haynes, “Phospholipid-coated Microcrystals: Injectable Formulations of Water-Insoluble Drugs.” U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,091,187 and 5,091,188). These suspensions are believed to be the first applications of the surface modified microparticulate aqueous suspension containing particles made up of a core of pure drug substances and stabilized with natural or synthetic bipolar lipids including phospholipids and cholesterol. Subsequently, similar delivery systems exploiting these principles have been described (G. G. Liversidge et al., “Surface Modified Drug Nanoparticles.” U.S. Pat. No. 5,145,684 K. J. Illig and P. Sarpotdar, “Formulations Comprising Olin 10-G to Prevent Particle Aggregation and Increase Stability.” U.S. Pat. No. 5,340,564 H. William Bosch et al., “Process for Preparing Therapeutic Compositions Containing Nanoparticles.” U.S. Pat. No. 5,510,118) emphasizing the usefulness of the drug delivery approach utilizing particulate aqueous suspensions.
Sterilization of the submicron- to micron-sized particle suspension of the pharmaceutical agent is necessary for their parenteral administration. The preferred method of sterilization of pharmaceutical parenteral agents is terminal sterilization by autoclaving. It has been found that many surface modified submicron- to micron-sized particle suspensions undergo particle size growth during autoclaving. This is attributed to the release of the surfactant molecules from the small particle surface and its subsequent coagulation at autoclaving temperatures. The small particles that are devoid of the surfactants become unstabilized and undergo particle size growth by various mechanisms. The temperature at which such coagulation of surfactant molecules occur is known as the cloud point of that surfactant. It is believed that addition of cloud point modifiers, which are merely other surfactants, raises the cloud point of the primary surfactant and thereby maintaining the surface modifier coating on the nanoparticles during autoclaving. The cloud point modifier molecules described in majority of the published literature (U.S. Pat. No. 5,298,262 U.S. Pat. No. 5,336,507, and U.S. Pat. No. 5,340,564) are ionic surfactants, including charged phospholipids.
Successful terminal steam sterilization of phospholipid-stabilized emulsions and phospholipid-liposomes have been reported in literature [1-4]. However, examples of successful terminal steam sterilization of micron or submicron size particle suspensions of water insoluble or poorly soluble drugs, that contain only phospholipids as the surface modifier, have not been reported prior to the findings reported in the present invention.
Surprisingly, it was found that selected compositions of submicron- to micron-sized particulate suspension of water-insoluble or poorly water-soluble pharmaceutical agents containing a pharmaceutically acceptable water soluble polyhydroxy compound could be autoclaved without any marked increase of mean particle size.
Yet another surprising finding was that such compositions withstood the stresses that are usually known to promote particle size growth or flocculation or agglomeration. For instance, without any significant increase in particle size, the steam sterilized compositions could be shaken for several days, could withstand the stress due to cyclical storage at 40 and 5° C., repeated freezing and thawing, or severe sedimentation forces.
It was a further surprising finding that these compositions could be successfully lyophilized before or after steam sterilization. In addition, the lyophilized preparations could be reconstituted by addition of water to make an aqueous suspension having qualities similar to the original suspension.
These compositions did not use any surfactants that would require cloud point modifying molecules for protection against coagulation, flocculation, crystal growth, or particle size growth during the terminal steam sterilization process. The steam sterilizable formulations described in the present invention differ from those known in the art by the absence of surfactants which have a tendency to coagulate on steam sterilization, e.g., polyvinylpyrrolidone, and presence of “thermoprotecting excipients as well as other thermoprotecting conditions” as described below.
The present invention focuses on how the growth of particles can be prevented during and after terminal steam sterilization of micron and sub-micron sized particles of water insoluble or poorly soluble pharmaceutical agents due to certain types of agents defined here as “thermoprotecting agents”, and selected processing conditions defined here as “thermoprotecting conditions”.
The “thermoprotecting agents” and “thermoprotecting conditions” are characterized by their ability to restrict the increase in volume weighted mean diameter of the particulate suspension during and after terminal steam sterilization to a limit that the steam sterilized suspension can be injected by intravenous or other parenteral routes of administration without compromising the safety of the subject. A volume weighted mean diameter of up to about 3 μm is considered safe for intravenous injection. However, such a suspension should not contain more than 3000 particles of 10 μm or greater size and not more than 300 particles of 25 μm or greater size according to the USP particulate test criterion. We have thus defined the term “successful steam sterilization” as a process with which one can prepare formulations which do not contain particles of above specified diameter limits or preferably the volume weighted mean particle diameter of the suspension does not increase after steam sterilization by more than about two-times.
While the surface modifiers possibly adsorb to the freshly made surfaces of drug particles during the process of particle size reduction, and (a) convert the lipophilic drug surface to a hydrophilic surface that has increased stability, and (b) possibly modify the surface charge of the drug particle surfaces, the thermoprotecting agent and thermoprotecting conditions described herein help maintain the particle size distribution of the suspension during and after the terminal steam sterilization conditions.
Examples of suitable thermoprotecting agents include one or a combination of pharmaceutically acceptable water soluble polyhydroxy compounds that also act as tonicity modifiers, such as dextrose, sucrose, mannitol, sorbitol, dextran, trehalose, lactose. A detailed description or these agents may be found in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, 18th Edition, 1990, Mack Publishing Co., PA; and Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy, Lachman et al., 1986.
Suitable thermoprotecting conditions include absence of high ionic strength, particularly absence of high concentration of hydrogen or hydroxyl ions. Some other suitable thermoprotecting conditions include absence of agents such as polyethylene glycols, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, which themselves have a natural tendency to coagulate at high temperatures.
Without wishing to limit this invention to any particular theory, it is thought that some of the functions of the combination of surface active or non-surface active thermoprotecting agents and thermoprotecting conditions as they relate to this invention are:
The process that can be used to produce these stable sub-micron and micron size particles include mixing the drug with phospholipid, other surfactants, thermoprotecting agents, and other ingredients followed by sonication, milling, homogenization, microfluidization, and antisolvent and solvent precipitation, spray drying of the solution in compressed normal or supercritical solvents.
Examples of some preferred water-insoluble drugs include antifungal agents, immunosuppressive and immunoactive agents, antiviral agents, antineoplastic agents, analgesic and antiinflammatory agents, antibiotics, antiepileptics, anesthetics, hypnotics, sedatives, antipsychotic agents, neuroleptic agents, antidepressants, anxiolytics, anticonvulsant agents, antagonists, neuron blocking agents, anticholinergic and cholinomimetic agents, antimuscarinic and muscarinic agents, antiadrenergic and, antiarrhythmics, antihypertensive agents, antineoplastic agents, hormones, and nutrients. A detailed description of these drugs may be found in Remington's Pharmaceutical Sciences, 18th Edition, 1990, Mack Publishing Co., PA.
Table I summarizes some of the example compositions and observations. In Table I is displayed the amounts of drug substance (itraconazole), egg-phospholipid (surface modifier), and tonicity agents (various polyhydroxy compounds) used in making those preparations. These compositions do not require addition of so-called cloud point modifying agents to prevent egg-phospholipid separation and coagulation. The attributes of the suspensions made before and after terminal steam sterilization is also included in this table.
These preparations have been made by mixing the ingredients with appropriate amount of water, adjusting the pH with the required quantities of aqueous sodium hydroxide, and then subjecting the dispersion to high pressure homogenization or high pressure microfluidization at pressures in the range of 10000 psi 25000 psi. During the homogenization or microfluidization process the process fluid was cooled to maintain a temperature between 5-35° C. The finished product was filled in 5 or 10 mL borosilicate USP Type I glass vials. These vials were sealed under nitrogen atmosphere and subjected to terminal steam sterilization at 121° C. for 15 to 30 minutes.
Successfully terminally steam sterilized preparations of itraconazole, experiments 1-A through 1-G, are displayed in Table I. By the term “successfully terminally steam sterilized preparations” it is understood in this example that the volume weighted mean particle diameter of the suspension did not increase after steam sterilization by more than two-times. To demonstrate this, Table-I shows the ratio of post-autoclaving mean particle size to that before sterilization, which are within 1.04 to 1.18. The volume-weighted diameters of these suspensions have been determined with a Malvern Mastersizer Microplus, which utilizes a method based on the diffraction of light by the particulate suspension.
Formulations 1-A to 1-G described in Table-I are examples of successful steam sterilized products without any significant increase in particle size. Volume weighted mean diameters of the suspensions after terminal steam sterilization for the said formulations did not increase by more than a factor of two.
In Table II are presented the results of some negative control experiments. As a control experiment, an itraconazole formulation (2-A) without any thermoprotectant and surface modifier addition was attempted. The solid drug could not be dispersed in water. Major portion of the drug remained floating on the surface of water. Therefore, it could not be homogenized. It was found that addition of a surfactant was necessary that also acted as a wetting agent. This formulation could not be made possible without any surface modifier. Therefore, steam sterilization and particle size determinations were not attempted.
The formulation 2-B to 2-E were prepared by the method described in Example 1.
1Symbols and sources of chemicals: Itraconazol (Wyckoff Chemical Co.); Lipoid E80 (Lipoid gmbH); TRE = Trehalose (Pfanstiehl, Waukegan, IL); MRJ = Myrj52S (ICI Surfactants); PF68 = Pluronic F68 (BASF); MAN = Mannitol (J. T. Baker, Phillipsburg, NJ); GLY = glycerin.
2The solid drug could not be dispersed in water, therefore, it could not be homogenized. It was found that addition of a surfactant was necessary that also acted as a wetting agent. This formulation could not be made possible without any surface modifier. Therefore, steam sterilization and particle size determinations were not attempted.
3Formulation 2-B demonstrated flocculation or aggregation and significant quantity of scum formation on the surface of the autoclaved material which dispersed slowly on vigorous agitation.
4Particle size of the formulation 2-C, consisting of 2.5% glycerol as the tonicity modifier, showed highly unstable particle size and therefore terminal steam sterilization was not performed.
The formulation 2-B demonstrated flocculation or aggregation and significant quantity of scum formation on the surface of the autoclaved material, which dispersed slowly on vigorous agitation. It was thought that the flocculation or creaming on steam sterilization of formulation 2-B originated from an excessive amount of phospholipid. This formulation has a 1:1 ratio of drug to Lipoid E80, i.e., 10% w/w each. It is believed that excessive amount of phospholipid resulted in some sort of cross-linked structure during steam sterilization that induced flocculation and creaming.
Additionally, in presence of a large excess of the surfactants during the steam sterilization conditions the particle size growth may occur due to solubilization of the drug in the microstructures of surfactant molecules followed by recrystallization upon cooling. Such microstructures include minute quantities of micelles or liposomes in equilibrium with other structures formed with the surfactant molecules. The fraction of these microstructures would increase with increasing quantities of the surfactants. It was thus recognized that maintaining a proper amount of the surface modifier in the formulation was important in order to avoid the particle size growth upon terminal steam sterilization.
In general, terminal steam sterilization of the microparticle formulations was found to be successful by reducing the phospholipid to a minimum quantity (e.g., from ˜10% w/w to about 2-5% w/w) that could allow an effective coating of the phospholipid on the drug-microparticle while avoiding the undesirable phospholipid structures considered to be responsible for large size cross-linked structures on steam sterilization. A drug to phospholipid ratio above about 3:1 seemed to give good result (formulations 1-A to 1-G of Example 1). When the drug to phospholipid ratio was brought down, e.g., from 5:1 in formulation 1-G (Example 1), to 1:1 in formulation 2-B, extensive flocculation or aggregation and significant quantity of scum formation on the surface of the autoclaved material was observed.
Particle size of the formulation 2-C, consisting of 2.5% glycerol as the tonicity modifier, was unstable and therefore terminal steam sterilization was not performed. This formulation had a large quantity of phospholipid compared to the drug, giving a low drug to phospholipid ratio of 0.25:1. In addition, this formulation employed 2.5% w/w glycerin as the tonicity modifier. It is believed that the unfavorable drug:phospholipid ratio and/or use of glycerin as the tonicity modifier caused the observed increase in the particle size of the formulation even without the heat stress of terminal steam sterilization.
Formulations 2-D and 2-E represent the effect of addition of certain commonly used surfactants. Surfactant Myrj-52S (polyethyleneglycol-40 sterate) was present at 2.0% in formulation 2-D in addition to 2.4% Lipoid E80 and 8.1% itraconazole. Similarly, surfactant Pluronic F68 (a Poloxamer) was present at 2.0% in formulation 2-E in addition to 2.4% Lipoid E80 and 8.1% itraconazole. Although the mean particle size of the preautoclaved suspension of both formulations 2-D and 2-E remained 0.86 μm, upon steam sterilization it increased tremendously to 7.84 and 4.22 μm, respectively. Both the formulations became highly viscous after steam sterilization. The formulations 2-D and 2-E display the post- to pre-sterilization particle size ratios of 9.1 and 4.9 respectively. This experiment demonstrates that addition of certain surfactants to Lipiod E80 containing Microparticle formulations results in a large growth of particle size.
Preparation “C” (Microparticle-Itraconazole (10%)) of the example 1 was used for this experiment. Approximately 5 g of the preparation was placed in a vial and sealed under nitrogen. Freeze/thaw stress was given as follows. The vial contents were frozen by storing in few a freezer (approximately −20° C.) for at least 6 hours. The frozen sample was then thawed by placing the vial at room temperature for 0.5-1 hour. Particle size distribution of the thawed sample was measured by the method mentioned above. Appearance of the thawed sample was recorded. The vial was then again sealed under nitrogen for the next cycle of this experiment. The results of this experiment are summarized in Table III. The formulation has displayed a very good particle size stability upon the destabilizing stress of freeze/thaw conditions.
A thermal cycling stress was given to the preparation “1-C” of example 1 by storing the formulation for approximately 24 hours in a refrigerator at about 4° C. and then in an incubator at about 40° C. for approximately 24 hours. The particle size was measured and appearance noted at the end of each cycle. This cycle was repeated. The results are given below in Table IV. The results indicate a very good stability of the particle size and appearance of the formulation on thermal cycling stress. The formulation remained stable for 4 cycles, after which the study was terminated.
Good stability on shaking stress has been also demonstrated (see Table V). The steam-sterilized formulation of example “1-C” was tested. Shaking stress was given as follows. The vial containing the formulation was placed horizontally on an orbital shaker and shaken at approximately 100 rpm. The vial was removed from the shaker daily for observation of the appearance. Particle size was measured every alternate day. The volume weighted mean particle size and its 90 as well as 99.9 percentile did not change significantly on shaking for 7 days. The study was terminated after 7 days.
The long-term sedimentation behavior was assessed by a centrifugation experiment and the formulation quality was determined by particle sizing (Table VI). Preparation “1-C” of example 1 was tested. The formulation could not be sedimented by centrifuging for approximately 20 min at 3000-rpm. Significant sedimentation was observed by increasing the centrifugation speed to approximately 5000 and 6000 rpm for another 20 min., however this sediment was resuspendable with some difficulty upon shaking. Resuspendibility was assessed as: Easy: Sedimented suspension became visually homogeneous on shaking gently by hand. Moderate: Sedimented suspension became visually homogeneous on vigorous hand shaking. Difficult: Vortexing required for the sedimented suspension to make visually homogeneous.
There was no increase in particle size upon such sedimentation. In addition, agglomeration or flocculation was not observed in optical microscopy. Average particle size by the optical microscopy agreed with that by Malvern Mastersizer.
Preparation “1-C” (Microparticle-Itraconazole (10%)) of the Example 1 was used for this experiment. Approximately 5 g of the unautoclaved product was placed in a glass vial and lyophilized. The vials that were terminally steam sterilized were also lyophilized. The lyophilized material was an off-white cake. The lyophilized cake was easily reconstituted with water by 4-5 gentle inversions of the vial into a homogenous white suspension. The appearance and particle size of the original suspension and that of lyophilized and reconstituted preparation is presented in Table VII. Both the unautoclaved and autoclaved formulations display good particle size stability upon lyophilization and reconstitution.
The formulations and their attributes of this example are given in Table VIII. These formulations were prepared by the methods of Example 1. In the microparticle-cyclosporine formulation 8-A, polyhydroxy compound acting as thermoprotectant or tonicity modifier was not added into the premix. The particle size reduction profile was found to be very inefficient. The volume weighted mean particle diameter of the suspension was about 4 micrometers at the end of homogenization. This suspension was steam sterilized at 121° C. for 15 minutes that resulted in a heavy coagulated mass of the solid particles of several millimeters. Almost all of the drug substance was seen sedimented leaving behind a clear supernatant.
Premix of formulation 8-B contained trehalose in addition to the components of example 8-A. The homogenization process of this formulation was interrupted in the midway by allowing to stand overnight under nitrogen atmosphere at ambient temperature. The homogenization was completed the next day. Efficient particle size reduction to a volume weighted mean diameter of 0.72 micrometers was observed. In addition, this formulation could be successfully steam sterilized at 121° C. for 15 minutes with an acceptable increase in the particle size to approximately 1.03, an increase by a factor of only 1.43. It is believed that the presence of the polyhydroxy compound, trehalose, allowed the efficient particle size reduction. The formulation could withstand the heat stress of autoclaving without a large increase in the particle size.
Some example formulations containing Alfaxalone and their pre and post steam sterilization attributes are shown in Table IX. These formulations were prepared by the methods of Example 1.
Formulation, 9-A, which has a combination of phospholipids (Lipoid E80, DSPC and DMPG) and dextran as the thermoprotectant, demonstrates about 2-fold increase in particle size upon steam sterilization by heating at 121° C. for 15 min. On the other hand, formulation 9-B, which has composition similar to that of 9-A except the absence of dextran, shows a much higher mean particle size (5.24 μm) and the ratio of post- and pre-sterilization mean particle sizes of 3.8. Thus presence of dextran in formulation 9-A has improved the particle size stabilization over that of formulation 9-B. Formulation 9-C is very similar to the formulation 9-A except slightly different amounts of surface modifiers. In this formulation also the particle size increase has been limited to about a factor of two. It has a mean particle size of 2.71 μm and the ratio of post- and pre-sterilization mean particle sizes of only 1.9.
In addition to the example compositions mentioned above, the formulations of this invention may additionally contain suitable amount of pH buffering salts and pH adjusting agents such as sodium hydroxide and/or pharmaceutically acceptable acids. It is known to those skilled in the art of handling the phospholipids that at pH lower than 5 and higher than 9 the phospholipid molecules undergo extensive hydrolysis. Therefore, the pH of the suspension was usually adjusted to within this range prior to homogenization, and if necessary readjusted prior to steam sterilization.
While the invention and the examples have been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the disclosed embodiment, but on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/087,331, filed May 29, 1998.
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