JPH07255845A - Jet injection percutaneous absorption device and precutaneous absorption promoting method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a device excellent in persistence and gradually releasing performance by providing a medicine permeable pressure sensitive adhesive layer to block up an opening part of a bottom part of a box-shaped casing and rubber to block up an opening part of a ceiling part of the casing in the device to percutaneously absorb medicine-containing solution or the like by passing through the skin. CONSTITUTION:A box-shaped casing 1 having a circular hole in a ceiling part and an opening in a bottom part, is provided, and semispherical silicon rubber 2 becoming a downward projection is adhered to the periphery of the circular hole of the ceiling part, and the bottom part opening is blocked up by an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive layer 3, and a reservoir 4 is constituted. A jet injector 5 is injected from above the silicon rubber 2 of this reservoir 4, and a hole is bored in a skin surface. At this time, when it is injected from above the rubber 2 of the reservoir 4, a small hole of the rubber 2 formed at solution injection time is instantly blocked up, and leakage of chemicals is prevented. Though a hole is also bored in the pressure sensitive adhesive layer 3 facing the skin, the hole is blocked up by the stickiness.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for percutaneously absorbing a solution containing a drug or the like through the skin by using a jet injection tool.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The jet injection method is a needleless injection method in which a drug solution is sent into the body by using water pressure. It was developed and manufactured by Medical Technology Company of Canada, and in Japan, Precijet (trade name of Kodama Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) It has been clinically applied to subcutaneous injection of insulin.

[0003]

However, since the conventional drug injection method by jet injection is to directly make a hole in the skin and inject the drug solution,
Although it has excellent immediate effect, it is not suitable for sustainability and sustained release. Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and provides a jet injection transdermal absorption device and a jet injection transdermal absorption promoting method using jet injection, which are excellent in sustainability and sustained release. To aim. Furthermore, the present invention provides a novel method for promoting percutaneous absorption and skin which are suitable for the treatment of patients who cannot orally administer or who need to maintain the internal concentration of the drug for a long period of time by increasing the percutaneous absorption or skin transferability of the drug. The purpose is to provide an applied formulation.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] Up to now, there has been no application of the drug percutaneous absorption through a hole formed in the skin by jet injection or the increase in drug skin transferability. Further, there are transdermal absorption preparations and the like, but there is no known method of percutaneously absorbing a drug after making a hole in the skin. Therefore, it is considered to attach a reservoir (container) that allows a drug to permeate through a hole formed in the skin by jet injection. Since the skin permeation rate depends on the flow rate of the solvent through the skin in the reservoir, the transdermal absorption rate of the drug can be predicted in advance. Such high prediction of absorption rate cannot be expected in the conventional dermal application preparation or transdermal absorption preparation having a promoting function.
A jet injection part is charged with a solution containing or not containing a drug, and the solution is injected from above the drug reservoir into the skin to form a small hole that serves as a drug permeation route, and a skin application formulation is administered to the site. It is a skin application preparation. Here, the reservoir is composed of a box-shaped casing having an opening at the bottom and the ceiling, a drug-permeable adhesive layer that closes the opening at the bottom of the casing, and a rubber that closes the opening at the ceiling of the casing. did. The rubber is not particularly limited, but for example, medical silicone rubber can be used. Further, it is preferable that the opening of the ceiling portion is circular and a semi-spherical rubber is adhered to the periphery.

[0005]

When the jet injector ejects the jet from the jet injector to the skin through the drug reservoir, the skin surface has holes. When ejecting from above the rubber of the reservoir at the time of ejection, the small holes of the rubber formed at the time of injecting the solution are instantly blocked, and the chemical solution does not leak from the rubber. On the other hand, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer facing the skin and the stratum corneum of the skin also have holes, but the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is closed because it has adhesiveness. At the time of injection, it must be devised so that the drug or solution does not diffuse.

Injection from jet injection is possible several times. That is, silicone rubber or the like can be used on the jet injection portion side of the drug reservoir portion as described above, but this method can be used when further absorption promotion is expected. still. The rate of absorption is proportional to the number of small holes in the skin. By making the rubber part a hemisphere, you can make small holes in the skin to make small holes.

In the present invention, the form of the drug to be filled into the skin-applied reservoir is not particularly limited, and various forms such as an ointment, a cream, a liquid, a lotion, a liniment, a gel and the like can be used. . In order to maximize the absorption rate, it is desirable that the liquid agent has a low surface tension.

Further, as means for increasing the drug solubility in the drug reservoir, addition of pH regulators, alcohols and glycols, addition of vegetable oil and the like are preferable. In addition to the pledget, the jet injection part is preferably a part capable of relatively non-invasively forming a hole in the stratum corneum of the skin by water pressure. A general syringe can also be applied to this method. The jet injection part can be removed when not needed.

[0009]

【Example】

Example 1 As shown in FIG. 1, a box-shaped casing 1 having a circular hole in the ceiling and an opening in the bottom, and a hemispherical silicon rubber bonded to the peripheral edge of the circular hole in the ceiling so as to be downwardly convex. Two
And a reservoir 4 is formed from the acrylic adhesive layer 3 that closes the bottom opening, and a presidget (trade name of Kodama Chemical Co., Ltd.) 5 is ejected from above the silicone rubber 2 of the reservoir 4. A device for promoting skin absorption was created. In addition, 6 is a liner for coating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. Next, the reservoir 4 was filled with a 30% gentamicin sulfate aqueous solution. After fixing a hairless rat (WBN / ILA-Ht) having a body weight of about 200 g in the back position, the fixing positions of the left and right feet were exchanged, the buttocks were turned upward, and the reservoir 4 was attached to the skin. From above the silicone rubber of the reservoir 4, a precision jet charged with 60 μl of normalized saline was brought into close contact, adjusted to the minimum pressure, and the solution was injected.
The positions of both legs of the rat were restored and fixed, and then blood was collected over time to measure the amount of gentamicin sulfate in plasma. The results are shown in FIG. Gentamicin sulfate was measured by the FPIA method.

Example 2 In the same manner, 2% nicardipine hydrochloride / 10% ethanol aqueous solution was used instead of 30% gentamicin sulfate aqueous solution, and 1
% Theophylline / 10% aqueous ethanol solution or 10% with pH adjusted to 9.3 to increase theophylline solubility
After filling the reservoir 4 with each of the aminophylline aqueous solutions, and fixing the hairless rats (WBN / ILA-Ht) in the dorsal position, swap the fixing positions of the left and right feet and turn the buttocks upward, and apply the reservoir 4 to the skin. I wore it. From above the silicone rubber of the reservoir 4, a precision jet charged with 60 μl of normalized saline was brought into close contact, adjusted to the minimum pressure, and the solution was injected. After the positions of both legs of the rat were returned to the original position and fixed, blood was collected over time and the amount of each drug in plasma was measured. The results are as shown in FIGS. 3, 4, and 5, respectively. Theophylline and aminophylline are F
Nicardipionine hydrochloride was measured by PIA method by HPLC method. For each drug, the blood concentration was observed for 24 hours, and the deconvolution calculation was performed using the plasma concentration transition obtained from the results of intravenous injection to calculate the transdermal absorption rate of the horny drug by volume flow. The value obtained by the unit of was about 0.42 μl / h regardless of the drug species.

Experimental Example 3 In the same manner as in Experimental Example 1, a follicle-stimulating hormone having a molecular weight of 30,000 was filled in the reservoir 4 and then fixed and fixed on a hairless rat. A water-prepared precision jet was brought into close contact, adjusted to the minimum pressure, and the liquid was ejected. After returning the rats to the original positions and fixing them, transdermal absorption experiments were carried out. As follicle-stimulating hormone, Metrozine manufactured by Serono Japan Co. was used, and 1 ml of an aqueous solution of 750 IU / ml was applied. Quantification was performed with cellozyme. The results of changes in plasma concentration are shown in FIG. Absorption rate is approximately as volume flow
It is 0.011 μl / h.

[0012]

[Effect] The present invention as a device and method for promoting percutaneous absorption is
Percutaneous absorption is observed even in high molecular weight drugs that are considered to be difficult to percutaneously absorb by ordinary physical or chemical acceleration methods. It has excellent predictability of medium concentrations and can be applied to many drugs by increasing the drug solubility in the applicable base. It also shows excellent sustainability in maintaining plasma concentration. If the drug solubility in the reservoir can be increased to 50%, it is applicable to the clinically orally administered drugs which have a daily daily dose of 5 mg or less. Further, it can be construed that a higher dose can be applied to a drug that is inactivated by the first-pass effect until reaching the advanced circulatory system. Furthermore, since many peptide hormones that are macromolecules act in extremely small amounts, even if the absorption rate is low, it is possible to obtain a transdermal effect by using this method.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway front view showing a device for promoting percutaneous absorption according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing changes in the concentration of the drug of Example 1 in plasma.

FIG. 3 is a graph showing changes in the plasma concentration of the drug of Example 2 (nicardipic acid hydrochloride).

FIG. 4 is a graph showing changes in the concentration of the drug (theophylline) of Example 2 in plasma.

FIG. 5 is a graph showing changes in the concentration of the drug (aminophylline) of Example 2 in plasma.

FIG. 6 is a graph showing changes in concentration of follicle-stimulating hormone in plasma in Example 3.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Casing 2 Silicone rubber 3 Adhesive layer 4 Reservoir 5 Injector (Precijet) 6 Liner

[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] July 28, 1994

[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Name of item to be amended] Title of invention

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[Correction content]

Title: Jet injection transdermal absorption device and method for promoting transdermal absorption

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A jet injector for making a hole in the stratum corneum of the skin by water pressure, and a reservoir, the reservoir closing a box-shaped casing having an opening at the bottom and the ceiling and an opening at the bottom of the casing. A jet injection percutaneous absorption device comprising a drug-permeable adhesive layer and a rubber that closes a ceiling opening portion of a casing. 2. The jet injection transdermal absorption according to claim 1, wherein the rubber is made of silicone rubber, and the adhesive constituting the adhesive layer is made of rubber or acrylic. apparatus. 3. The jet injection percutaneous absorption apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the opening portion of the ceiling portion of the casing is formed by a circular hole, and the rubber that closes the opening is formed of a hemispherical shape. . 4. A step of applying to a skin a reservoir filled with a drug desired to be absorbed in a liquid, gel or emulsified state,
A method for promoting percutaneous absorption, which comprises a step of injecting a jet injector toward the skin from above a rubber provided on the ceiling after the sticking.