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Summary for Patent: 5,989,581
Title: Drug delivery system for two or more active substances
Abstract:The present invention is dealing with a drug delivery system, preferably in a ring-shaped form suitable for vaginal administration, for the simultaneous release of a progestogenic steroid compound and an estrogenic steroid compound in a fixed physiological ratio over a prolonged period of time. The drug delivery system comprises at least one compartment comprising a thermoplastic polymer core containing the mixture of the progestogenic and estrogenic compounds and a thermoplastic polymer skin, the progestogenic compound being initially dissolved in the polymer core material in a relatively low degree of supersaturation.
Inventor(s): Groenewegen; Rudolf Johannes Joseph (Heesch, NL)
Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V. (Arnhem, NL)
Application Number:09/056,700
Patent Claim Types:
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Compound; Delivery;

Drugs Protected by US Patent 5,989,581

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Foreign Priority and PCT Information for Patent: 5,989,581

Foriegn Application Priority Data
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97201098Apr 11, 1997

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