METHOD FOR TREATING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS WITH ORAL DOSAGE FORMULATION CONTAINING BOTH IMMEDIATE-RELEASE AND SUSTAINED-RELEASE DRUGS

Disclosed herein is a method for treating patient suffering from a disorder related to central nervous system with an oral dosage formulation that contains both sustained-release and immediate-release drugs. The sustained-release drug in the oral dosage formulation is memantine, and the formulation...

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Hauptverfasser: SHANE GUANG-TZUU, TSAI PEIN, DIN CHUEN-LIN, CHEN CHIEN-FEN, TSAI HUI-LING
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed herein is a method for treating patient suffering from a disorder related to central nervous system with an oral dosage formulation that contains both sustained-release and immediate-release drugs. The sustained-release drug in the oral dosage formulation is memantine, and the formulation provides an average blood level Cmax of the memantine in a range of about 10-24 ng/mL during an average Tmax of about 10-45 hours. The immediate-release drug in the oral dosage formulation is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AChEI), and the formulation provides an average blood level Cmax of the AChEI in a range of about 12-38 ng/mL during an average Tmax of less than about 4 hours.