EP0567201A2 — Vehicles for oral administration of a specific pharmaceutically active acid labile substance

USPTO Abstract

Improvements in the vehicles for oral administration of pharmaceutically active acid labile substances prone to discolouration, containing omeprazole where the administration vehicle comprises a core containing the omeprazole together with an alkaline reacting compound or an alkaline salt of omeprazole optionally mixed with an alkaline reacting compound, adopting the form either of a number of small beads optionally forming a tablet or a tablet as such and comprising a coating made out of one or more inert reacting subcoating layers comprising tablet excipients which are soluble or rapidly disintegrating in water, or polymeric, water soluble, filmforming compounds, optionally containing pH-buffering, alkaline compounds between the alkaline reacting core and an enteric outer coating layer.