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• the present invention pertains to the field of the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and of levodopa-responsive syndromes in children.
• the present invention concerns a novel approach in the carbidopa/levodopa oral treatment of Parkinson’s disease, mimicking the intravenous infusion.
• Said improved treatment is made by using a novel, multiscored, bilayered carbidopa25mg/levodopal00mg pharmaceutical unit form that enables precise dose fractionation to delay and even avoid the onset of motor response complications in early stage patients, reduce the severity of these complications in mid- stage patients, and safely treat or even eliminate existing motor response complications in late-stage patients.
• this mutiscored, bilayered tablet meets the treatment needs of hypersensitive early-stage parkinsonian patients and of children suffering from levodopa- responsive syndromes.
• PNS Peripheral Nervous System
• the treatment is best initiated with one tablet of CD/LD 25/100 three times a day.
• This dosage schedule provides 25mg of CD per tablet, equivalent to 75mg per day on a typical 3 times per day daily dosing schedule. Dosage may be increased by one tablet every day or every other day, as necessary to a dosage which may extend as high as eight tablets of CD/LD 25/100 per day. In some cases, a CD/LD 25/250 tablet may be used and the dosage of CD/LD 25-250 may be increased by one-half or one tablet every day or every other day to a maximum of eight tablets per day.
• Dosage may be increased by one tablet of 'Sinemet 12.5 mg/50 mg' or 'Sinemet Plus 25 mg/lOO mg' every day or every other day, as necessary, until a dosage equivalent of eight tablets of 'Sinemet Plus 25 mg/lOO mg' a day is reached. If 'Sinemet 10 mg/lOO mg Tablets' or 'Sinemet 12.5 mg/50 mg Tablets' are used, dosage may be initiated with one tablet three or four times a day. Titration upward may be required in some patients to achieve optimum dosage of CD. The dosage may be increased by one tablet every day or every other day until a total of eight tablets (two tablets q.d.s.) is reached. Response has been observed in one day, and sometimes after one dose.
• Multiscore tablet a bilayered tablet consisting of a two-score or three-score top layer comprising CD/LD in a total amount of 25mg/l00mg, in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, a bottom layer comprising a pharmaceutical carrier without active ingredient, and wherein each score of said top layer penetrates said bottom layer without cutting it.
• -“Unit dose” a single section of the multiscore tablet comprising a specific amount of CD/LD selected from the group consisting of 6.25mg/25mg and 8.(3)mg/33,(3)mg, in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier.
• CD/LD dose a CD/LD dose consisting of from one to six unit doses, to be simultaneously administered to a patient.
• Parkinson’s disease (PD) and related movement disorders are now estimated to affect nearly 1.5 million in the U.S. It is thought that approximately 7 to 10 million are living with this disorder worldwide. Some 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with PD each year, a number that does not reflect the thousands of cases that go undetected. The incidence of PD increases with age, although an estimated four percent of people with this disorder are diagnosed before the age of 50. Rarely, children can develop a juvenile form of PD. Men are 1.5-times more likely to have PD than women. The combined direct and indirect cost of PD, including treatment, social security payments and lost income from inability to work, has been calculated to be nearly $25 billion per year in the U.S. alone. As time passes, the burden of PD will increase with the aging of the population, and become unsustainable.
• PD is considered a neurodegenerative disorder of unknown etiology with onset generally after the age of 60 years. Symptoms affect both motor and non-motor functions and gradually, yet inexorably, progress. Motor symptoms classically include tremor, muscle rigidity and a generalized bradykinesia. Gait and balance are often affected. Non-motor symptoms reflect a broad range of central and peripheral nervous systems involvement. Progression is relentless, leading to profound disability and ultimately death within some 10 to 20 years.
• the degenerative process is now generally attributed to a neurotoxic product of the aberrant processing of an intraneuronal protein called synuclein.
• synuclein a neurotoxic product of the aberrant processing of an intraneuronal protein called synuclein.
• a number of neuronal systems become injured and eventually die.
• the synthesis and release of chemical transmitters from the affected neurons gradually declines and normal function diminishes.
• a deficiency in dopamine (DA)-mediated neurotransmission is the major contributor to the motor abnormalities associated with PD. Pharmaceuticals that act to correct this deficit in brain thus constitute the mainstay of current therapy.
• LD the direct precursor of dopamine
• CD CD/LD combination used in the PD therapy is CD/LD lOmg/lOOmg, CD/LD 25mg/l00mg, or CD/LD 25/250, initially generally administered three times per day.
• the CD/LD 12.5 mg/50 mg, lOmg/lOOmg, 25mg/l00mg and 25mg/250mg Tablets prescription label (Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited UK), said tablet may be administered four times a day.
• the standard treatment herein below also referred to as “standard administration schedule”
• standard administration schedule is practiced worldwide, compatibly with the individual needs of the PD patients.
• the timing of doses may vary between patients and stage of the disease, generally getting shorter as the disease progresses. According to the current standard treatment and single doses, this timing of doses represents a further problem that is unresolved.
• MRCs motor response complications
• Parkinson’s disease symptoms start becoming apparent when patients have lost about 60% of their nigral nerve cells (Chase et al, 1989, 1993, 1994).
• DA formed in the brain from orally administered LD is stored in the nerve terminals of the substantia nigra nerve cells. Storage allows for slow and regulated release of DA, explaining the 6-hour duration of effect of each LD dose.
• Duodopa a system whereby a reservoir containing a gel of Sinemet is linked to a catheter that is placed in the duodenum and delivers Sinemet continuously into the gut.
• Patients on Duodopa have a stable antiparkinsonian response to treatment, with little dyskinesias or wearing-off.
• Duodopa treatment is expensive, requiring surgery to place the intra-duodenal catheter, and complications such as infections or catheter displacement or blockade occur.
• Duopa Package Insert, Abbvie Inc. Jan 2015, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. Thus, Duodopa treatment is reserved to few, relatively advanced patients.
• the US 2008/0233189 patent document discloses a layered tablet having three segments (each defined as“unit dose” in the above definitions): a top segment (top layer according to the present description) comprising at least one active ingredient, an inner or middle segment (layer) containing no active ingredient, and a bottom end segment (layer) comprising a different active ingredient.
• a top segment top layer according to the present description
• an inner or middle segment layer
• a bottom end segment comprising a different active ingredient.
• the number of unitary segments (unit doses) formed from a layer of said tablet is not limited to two and that said tablet can have three parallel scores or two crossing scores.
• one outer active segment (layer) of a tablet could contain LD and CD, and the other outer active segment (layer) could contain entacapone, thus providing a three-layer segment comprising three drugs.
• the present invention is based on the concept that the frequent delivery of small precise oral doses of CD/LD can simulate the continuous intravenous administration of LD, thus overcoming the aforementioned dangers of the current CD/LD treatment.
• a pharmaceutical unit form consisting of a multiscore tablet said tablet comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising CD/LD 25mg/l00mg in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, and being divided, by two or three scores, in three or four sections, each section thereof comprising, respectively, CD/LD 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg and CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg
• CD/LD 7.(3)mg/33.(3)mg
• CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg it is possible to administer frequent, predetermined single doses that are able to slow the progression of the disease in early stage patients and to alleviate the MRCs in advanced PD patients.
• a frequent administration of CD/LD reduces the need for entacapone. This is advantageous because, although entacapone given together with CD/LD prolongs the duration of each dose of LD, this occurs in association with a deleterious increase in peak of LD.
• the present invention provides a method for the treatment of PD and LD- requiring disorders in a patient in need of said treatment, while concurrently inhibiting or alleviating MRCs, which comprises treating said patient with a CD/LD single oral dose selected from the group consisting of 6.25mg/25mg, 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, l2.5mg/50 mg, l6.(6)mg/66.(6)mg, l8.75mg/75mg, 25mg/l00mg, 3l.25mg/l25mg, and 33.(3)mg/l33.(3)mg from 5 times to 9 times per day
• the present invention also provides a new pharmaceutical unit form consisting of a multiscore tablet, said tablet comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising CD/LD 25mg/l00mg in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, and being divided, by two or three scores, in three or four sections, each section thereof comprising, respectively, CD/LD 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, and CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg.
• the scores of the top layer penetrate the bottom inert layer, sufficiently to allow convenient splitting by a patient, but not to introduce superfluous fragility that favors spontaneous fracture, and without fully cutting it.
• DopaSnap said bilayered, deeply scored, multiscore tablet because its sections can be easily and precisely divided out without any loss of the CD and LD active principles.
• the DopaSnap tablet can be manufactured according to the process described in US 2008/0233189, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. It is designed only for the treatment of PD with the precise intent of alleviating the toxicity associated with all existing oral CL/LD formulations, i.e. the induction of MRCs.
• the invention provides a three- score/four section, bilayered tablet formed by a top, scored layer, comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising, as active ingredients, CD, in a total amount of 25 mg, and LD, in a total amount of 100 mg, in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, adjoined to an inert layer comprising a pharmaceutical carrier without active ingredient, each of the four sections of said tablet comprising a CD/LD unit dose having 6.25mg/25 mg,
• DopaSnap mimics the continuous, optimal-dose, intravenous administration of LD, by delivering frequent, small precise doses of CD/LD.
• LD plasma concentrations remain within the physiologic or “normal function” range and thus helping to avoid both dyskinesia and end-of-dose wearing off.
• DopaSnap seeks to effectively address the critical medical need of most parkinsonian patients to increase the precision and continuity of LD dosing and thus bring greater antiparkinsonian relief with less disabling adverse responses to all PD patients.
• DopaSnap designed and constructed for convenience in parkinsonian hands, takes a substantial stride towards enabling the benefits of the frequent administration of optimal dose CD/LD. After nearly 50 years of waiting, the medical needs of the PD patient at all stages of disease can be more adequately met.
• the present invention provides
• a method for the treatment of PD and related LD-requiring disorders, with concurrent prevention or treatment of MRCs, in a patient in need of said treatment which comprises administering to said patient a CD/LD single dose selected from the group consisting of 6.25mg/25mg, 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, l2.5mg/50mg, l6.(6)mg/66.(6)mg, l8.75mg/75mg,
• a pharmaceutical unit form consisting of a multiscore tablet comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising CD/LD 25mg/l00mg in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, and divided, by two or three scores, in three or four sections, each section comprising, respectively, CD/LD 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, and CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg;
• said medicament consisting of a multiscore tablet comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising CD/LD 25mg/l00mg in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, and divided, by two or three scores, in three or four sections, each section comprising, respectively, CD/LD 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, and CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg.
• the present invention provides a tool for an easy realization of a new protocol for treating patients suffering from PD by concurrently preventing or treating MRCs.
• Said new protocol provides a method for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease in a patient in need of said treatment, while concurrently preventing or treating MCCs, which comprises treating said patient with a CD/LD single dose selected from the group consisting of 6.25mg/25mg, 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, l2.5mg/50mg, l6.(6)mg/66.(6)mg, l8.75mg/75mg, 25mg/l00mg, 3l.25mg/l25mg, and 33.(3)mg/l33.(3)mg, from 5 times to 9 times per day.
• a CD/LD single dose selected from the group consisting of 6.25mg/25mg, 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, l2.5mg/50mg, l6.(6)mg/66.(6)mg, l8.75mg/75mg, 25mg/l00mg, 3l.25mg/l25mg, and 33.(3)
• the new protocol is assured by using a pharmaceutical unit form consisting of a multiscore tablet comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising CD/LD 25mg/l00mg in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier, and divided, by two or three scores, in three or four sections, each section comprising, respectively, CD/LD 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, and CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg, thus allowing the administration of one or more unit doses of CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg or. 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg,
• Said single dose is being selected from the group consisting of from one section, two sections, three sections, the whole tablet and the whole tablet plus one section or more sections of a second bilayered tablet as described above.
• three sections correspond to the whole tablet.
• CD/LD DopaSnap
• unit dose 6.25/25 mg or 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg, according to the age and the weight of the patient, given orally every 3-4 hours while awake, over a period of 16-18 hours.
• CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg or 8.(3)mg/33.(3)mg unit dose is typically given at 5 to 6 times per day (from 3l.25mg/l25mg to 37.5mg/l50mg per day or from 4l.(6)mg/l66.(6)mg to 50mg/200mg).
• This daily dose is subsequently titrated up over subsequent days and weeks to the lowest amount that optimally relieves motor symptoms or to a maximum single dose, usually in the range of from l6.(6)mg/66.(6)mg to 33.(3)mg/l33.(3)mg, corresponding to a daily dose of from 83.(3)mg/666.(6)mg to l66.(6)/800mg, normally in the range of from l8.75mg/75mg to 3l.25mg/l25mg, corresponding to a daily dose of from 93.75mg/375 mg to l87.5mg/750mg. or from per single dose.
• the optimal dose of LD in DopaSnap
• DopaSnap may be as low as 25 mg or 50 mg, depending on such factors as body size and drug tolerance.
• a DopaSnap single dose of from l8.75mg/75mg to 3l.25mg/l25 mg) every two hours provides a CD/LD daily dose of from l68mg/675mg to 28l.25mg/l l25mg allowing the prevention or treatment of MRCs.
• the present invention provides a three-score/four section, bilayered tablet formed by a top, scored layer comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising, as active ingredients, CD, in a total amount of 25 mg, and LD, in a total amount of 100 mg, in admixture with a pharmaceutical carrier for immediate release, adjoined to an inert bottom layer comprising a pharmaceutical carrier without active ingredient, each of the four sections of said top layer of said tablet comprising a CD/LD amount of 6.25mg/25 mg.
• DopaSnap tablet is triple-scored for ease of fractionated dosing and may be used whole (25/100 of CD/LD) or divided into 6.25/25 mg, l2.5/50mg or l8.75mg/75mg CD/LD doses.
• the deep scoring permits tablet segments to be easily snapped apart manually without cutting instruments. Ease of fractionation is essential for elderly, motor- impaired patients.
• DopaSnap tablets employ bilayered, deeply scored design.
• the top layer contains CD/LD and is pre-divided by 3 deep scores during the manufacturing process to provide exact doses.
• the bottom layer does not contain active drug; it provides mechanical stability and serves as the break region when splitting the tablet.
• CD and LD are formulated with the calculated amount of CD and the calculated amount of LD active ingredients in admixture with a conventional pharmaceutical acceptable carrier in an immediate release formulation. Said calculated amount of the active ingredients in said top layer assures
• the bottom, inert layer that only serves for a precise splitting of single sections, without any loss of active ingredients is a formulation of a conventional pharmaceutical carrier, preferably the same as that of the top layer, without active ingredient
• Two or three scores divide the top layer in three or four sections, each containing 8.(3) mg CD and 33.(8) LD and, respectively, 6.25 mg CD and 25 mg LD and penetrate the bottom layer without cutting it, thus allowing the perfect splitting of the desired number of sections.
• the pharmaceutical carriers include starches, cellulose and derivatives thereof; silica gel, microsilica gel; lubricants such as talc, stearic acid or magnesium stearate; diluents such as talc, powdered cellulose, lactose, starches such as maize or com starch, pregelatinized starch, mannitol, sorbitol; disaggregating agents such as microcrystalline cellulose, low substituted hydroxypropylcellulose, or crospovidone; lubricants such as polyethylene glycol or magnesium stearate; ligands such as methylcellulose, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, alginic acid, alginates; sweeteners, such as sucrose, dextrose, mannitol, saccharin; or flavoring agents such as natural or synthetic oils.
• lubricants such as talc, stearic acid or magnesium stearate
• diluents such as talc, powdered cellulose, lactose,
• Layer (b) is formed by a pharmaceutical carrier, preferably the same as that of layer (a), but without the active ingredients.
• DopaSnap may also be manufactured as an orally disintegrable tablet by using excipients such as MCC PH-102 or PH-301, microsilica gel, low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose in both the active layer (a) and the inert layer (b), for example as described in CN100384411(C).
• excipients such as MCC PH-102 or PH-301, microsilica gel, low-substituted hydroxypropylcellulose in both the active layer (a) and the inert layer (b), for example as described in CN100384411(C).
• the tablets are preferably manufactured using a first granulation (preferably wet granulation) comprising CD/LD and a second (preferably wet) granulation compounding the pharmaceutical carrier, preferably the same as that of the active layer.
• a first granulation preferably wet granulation
• a second (preferably wet) granulation compounding the pharmaceutical carrier preferably the same as that of the active layer.
• the active layer is separately prepared by mixing the calculated amount of CD and LD with a binder such as povidone or pregelatinized starch. Water is added to the mixture and said mixture is submitted to wet granulation. After a possible dying of the granulate in a fluidized bed dyer, the mass is submitted to a screening through an 18. mesh screen and milled.
• the mixture thus obtained is blended with a disintegrating agent such as cellulose or microcrystalline cellulose, and with a lubricant, such as stearic acid or with al earth-metal salt stearate, preferably magnesium stearate, preferably in a V-blender.
• the calculated amount of a binder, a disintegrating agent and a lubricant preferably the same used in the preparation of the blended mixture for the active layer, is submitted to blending, preferably in a V-blender.
• the tablets are only manufactured on a Bi-Layer Tablet Compression machine.
• the manufacture method utilizes a protuberance known as an embossing that rises from the lower punch of a tablet die in said tablet compression machine.
• the active, above granulation containing the calculated amount of CD/LD enters the die, forms a layer above the highest point of said embossing, and is tamped by the upper punch.
• the inert, second granulation enters said die on top of said first granulation, is tamped by the upper punch, and then the tablet is compressed by the upper punch so that said compression pushes said first granulation below the highest points of said embossing.
• Said embossing occupies a position on the lower punch trisecting or quadrisecting said lower punch, so that said compression causes the active layer to be divided into three or four sections.
• the present invention provides a tool for an easy realization of a new protocol for treating patients suffering from PD by concurrently preventing or treating MRCs.
• Said new protocol provides a method for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease in a patient in need of said treatment, while concurrently preventing or treating MCCs, which comprises treating said patient with a CD/LD single dose selected from the group consisting of 6.25mg/25mg, l2.5mg/50 mg, l8.75mg/75mg, 25mg/l00mg and 3l.25mg/l25mg, from 5 times to 9 times per day, said single dose being selected from the group consisting of from one section, two section, three sections, the whole tablet and the whole tablet plus one section of a second of the three- score/four section, bilayered tablets as described above.
• CD/LD DopaSnap
• CD/LD DopaSnap
• the above CD/LD 6.25mg/25mg unit dose is typically given at 5 to 6 times per day (from 3l.25mg/l25mg to 37.5/l50mg per day).
• This dose is subsequently titrated up over subsequent days and weeks to the lowest amount that optimally relieves motor symptoms or to a maximum, usually in the range of about l8.75mg/75mg to 3l.25mg/l25mg per dose.
• large inter-patient differences are not unexpected.
• LD in DopaSanp
• the optimal dose of LD may be as low as 25 mg or 50 mg, depending on such factors as body size and drug tolerance.
• a tablet comprising an inert layer with a superimposed, adjoined active layer, formed by four unitary segments each containing equal amounts of carbidopa/levodopa 6.25mg/25mg has the following characteristics:
• Thickness 4 mm
• Inert layer 350 mg.
• the active layer (also referred to as top layer) has the formulation given in Table 1 below.
• Said active layer is manufactured by the following 6-step process.
• the inert layer (also referred to as bottom segment) has the formulation given in Table 2 below.
• Said inert layer is manufactured by a direct blending process: (a) weigh-off excipients; (b) blending Microcrystalline Cellulose PH-200, Pre-Gelatinized Starch 1500 and magnesium stearate, preferably in a V-blender, (c) discharge final blend. Ready for compression. The compression is made by using a bi-layer press machine fitted with the appropriate tooling and compress into tablets.
• a tablet comprising an inert layer with a superimposed, adjoined active layer, formed by four unitary segments each containing equal amounts of carbidopa/levodopa 6.25mg/25mg has the following characteristics:
• Tablet Size 0.7480”x 0.2920” (corresponding to 19 mm x 7.417 mm)
• Thickness 4.0 mm
• the active layer (also referred to as top layer) has the following formulation qualitative and quantitative composition given in Table 1 below.
• Active layer is manufactured by Wet granulation process with high shear granulation and followed by Dry mixing process with the following 6-step process.
• the inert layer (also referred to as bottom segment) has the following formulation qualitative and quantitative compositiongiven in Table 2 below.
• Said inert layer is manufactured by a direct blending process:
• Mouradian MM 1 Heuser U, Baronti F, Chase TN. Modification of central dopaminergic mechanisms by continuous levodopa therapy for advanced Parkinson's disease.

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