Abstract:
This invention provides a method of administering an arachidonic acid metabolite, such as prostaglandin E1, to an animal. The metabolite is given to the animal, typically a human, in association with a unilamellar liposome comprising a lipid and a release-inhibiting aqueous buffer. This method can be used to treat animals afflicted with disorders characterized by cell activation and adhesion, inflammation or toxemia.
Abstract:
This invention relates to interdigitation-fusion (IF) liposomes and gels. These liposomes and gels capture high solute to lipid ratios, including bioactive agent. This invention also relates to the discovery that the fusion of liposomes to produce IF gel and liposomes according to the present invention is size dependent. The present invention also relates to a method for producing IF liposomes and gels. In the method of the present invention, sized liposomes formed by sonication, extrusion or alternative processes are fused in the presence of ethanol or other suitable inducer. This process results in a composition of the present invention in gel form. To produce liposomes, the gels are exposed to a temperature usually but not necessarily above the transition temperature (Tm) of the lipid used. The temperature required by the methods of the invention is that temperature which induces a change in the material properties of the mixture. The inducer may also be removed. The result is a composition comprising liposomes containing high solute to lipid ratios. The IF liposomes and gels of the present invention may be used in combination with numerous solutes, especially including bioactive agents.
Abstract:
A method of treating a cell activation/adhesion syndrome in mammals, including humans, by the administration of a prostaglandin associated with a liposome is disclosed. Such cell activation/adhesion syndromes may include reperfusion injury, septic shock, myocardial infarction, adult respiratory distress syndrome, rheumatoid vasculitis, systemic vasculitis, lupus, post traumatic shock, burn injury or restenosis after angioplasty. In a preferred embodiment, the prostaglandin is encapsulated in the liposomes.
Abstract:
This invention relates to interdigitation-fusion (IF) liposomes and gels. These liposomes and gels capture high solute to lipid ratios, including bioactive agent. This invention also relates to the discovery that the fusion of liposomes to produce IF gel and liposomes according to the present invention is size dependent. The present invention also relates to a method for producing IF liposomes and gels. In the method of the present invention, sized liposomes formed by sonication, extrusion or alternative processes are fused in the presence of ethanol or other suitable inducer. This process results in a composition of the present invention in gel form. To produce liposomes, the gels are exposed to a temperature usually but not necessarily above the transition temperature (Tm) of the lipid used. The temperature required by the methods of the invention is that temperature which induces a change in the material properties of the mixture. The inducer may also be removed. The result is a composition comprising liposomes containing high solute to lipid ratios. The IF liposomes and gels of the present invention may be used in combination with numerous solutes, especially including bioactive agents.
Abstract:
Liposomal Cromolyn formulations comprising sodium cromoglycate and a lipid or lipid mixture are disclosed. The lipids employed in the cromolyn liposomal formulations of this invention include cholesterol neutralized cholesterol hydrogen succinate (cholesterol hemisuccinate or ''CHS''); saturated phospholipids such as dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), hydrogenated soy phosphatidylcholine (HSPC); and cholesterol (Chol), or mixtures of same.
Abstract:
A new method is disclosed for making unilamellar vesicles from multilamellar vesicles. Such vesicles are formed without the use of physical or chemical disruption processes known in the art for forming unilamellar vesicles. The liposomes are incubated at neutral pH at or near the transition temperature of the lipids used, in low ionic strength media such as distilled water. The liposomes may comprise bioactive agents, such as the toxic hydrophobic drugs such as the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B, and may be used in vivo or in vitro. Lipid compositions are preferably a combination of the phospholipids dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (DMPG) in about a 7:3 mole ratio.
Abstract:
A method and composition for the solubilization of hydrophobic materials using a lysophospholipid. The method includes drying a composition comprising a hydrophobic material-solubilizing effective amount of phospholipid from organic solvent and hydrating the resulting film with an aqueous medium at either a pH of between about 8.5 and about 14.0, or at pH 7.0 followed by reduction of the temperature to less than 0oC.
Abstract:
A multilamellar vesicle dispersed in an aqueous phase comprising an aqueous medium, a lipid concentration of at least about 50 mg/ml and a trapping efficiency of at least about 30 percent. The vesicle can be prepared by dispersing the lipid in an aqueous phase to form a multilamellar vesicle, rapidly freezing the multilamellar vesicle to obtain a frozen lipid-aqueous medium mixture, and warming the mixture to obtain a frozen and thawed multilamellar vesicle dispersed in an aqueous phase.
Abstract:
Provided herein is a method of administering a free arachidonic acid metabolite to an animal, the method involving administration of the free metabolite and an endocytosable particle. This method can be used to treat animals afflicted with disorders characterized by cell activation and adhesion, inflammation or toxemia. Also provided is a method of treating an animal for such disorders by administration to the animals of a composition containing an anti-disorder effective amount of an endocytosable particle.
Abstract:
Defensis are microbicidal, tumoricidal cytotoxic protein componenents of animal host defense systems. They can be entrapped in liposomes containing release-inhibiting lipid such that the defensins are neutralized, and their release from the liposomes is inhibited; however, the defensins remain effective when exposed to endocytosed material in endocytic vesicles. Liposomal defensin formulations are administered to animals for the treatment or prevention of microbial infections, for the treatment of cancers and for the treatment of disorders characterized by a deficiency of protein-mediated cytotoxic activity in cytoplasmic granules.