Palatable pharmaceutical compositions for companion animals
First Claim
1. A palatable pharmaceutical composition for oral administration to companion animals comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically active agent in combination with a palatability improving agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the palatability improving agent is non-meat and non-fish derived, and is present in amounts sufficient to make the pharmaceutical composition palatable to the companion animal, provided that when the palatability improving agent is yeast, it is present in an amount ranging from about 2% to about 25% by weight of the palatable pharmaceutical composition.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions, which are palatable to companion animals wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises pharmaceutically effective amounts of pharmaceutically active agents and palatability improving agents.
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- 1. A palatable pharmaceutical composition for oral administration to companion animals comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically active agent in combination with a palatability improving agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the palatability improving agent is non-meat and non-fish derived, and is present in amounts sufficient to make the pharmaceutical composition palatable to the companion animal, provided that when the palatability improving agent is yeast, it is present in an amount ranging from about 2% to about 25% by weight of the palatable pharmaceutical composition.
- 19. A palatable pharmaceutical composition for administration to companion animals comprising a pharmaceutical effective amount of a pharmaceutically active agent admixed with a palatability improving agent and in association with a pharmaceutical carrier, said palatability improving agent being a yeast or yeast hydrolysate, or a combination thereof, said yeast or yeast hydrolysate, or a combination thereof, being present in an amount ranging from abut 2% by weight to about 25% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition.
- 28. A method of making a palatable pharmaceutical composition for oral administration to a companion animal which comprises mixing a pharmaceutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically active agent with an effective amount of a palatability improving agent and a pharmaceutical carrier and orally administering said product to the companion animal, the palatability improving agent being present in amounts sufficient to make the pharmaceutical palatable to the companion animal.
- 30. A method of making a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration to a companion animal palatable thereto which comprises admixing a pharmaceutically effective amount of the pharmaceutical with a palatability improving agent and a pharmaceutical carrier and orally administering said product to a companion animal, such palatability improving agent being a yeast or a yeast hydrolysate, said yeast or yeast hydrolysate being present in an amount ranging from about 2% to weight to about 25% by weight of the pharmaceutical composition.
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39. A palatable pharmaceutical composition for oral administration to companion animals comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of a pharmaceutically active agent in combination with a palatability improving agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the palatability improving agent is non-meat, non-fish and non-yeast-derived, and is present in amounts sufficient to make the pharmaceutical composition palatable to the companion animal.
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