CA1114714A - Process for the dehydration of a colloidal dispersion of liposomes - Google Patents

Process for the dehydration of a colloidal dispersion of liposomes

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CA1114714A
CA1114714A CA308,795A CA308795A CA1114714A CA 1114714 A CA1114714 A CA 1114714A CA 308795 A CA308795 A CA 308795A CA 1114714 A CA1114714 A CA 1114714A
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Bernard Sec 33(4) Lamy
Michel Schneider
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    • A61MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61KPREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES
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    • A61K9/10Dispersions; Emulsions
    • A61K9/127Liposomes

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF DISCLOSURE

The invention concerns a process for the dehydration of a colloidal dispersion of liposomes in an aqueous liquid medium, this process being aimed at extending the conser-vation of the liposomes and to enable their efficient use at a later date.
According to this process, there is prepared a mixture of hydrophilic compound and the liposome dispersion. This mixture is then subjected to a dehydration operation leading to the formation of liposomes in the form of a stable powder which can be stored for a long period and from which a dispersion of liposomes can be reconstituted.

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The present invention concerns the conservation of liposomes which are in the form of a colloidal dispersion in an aqueous medium.
As already known, the term "liposome" is currently used to call some microscopic vesicles which contain a liquid and the walls of which are formed from lipids of general formula XY, wherain X is a polar hydrophilic group and Y is a non-polar hydrophobic group.
The following groups can be mentioned as examples of polar groups X: phosphato, carboxy, sulfato, amino, hydroxy and choline. Examples of non-polar groups Y are:
saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbons such as alkyl, alkenyl and alkynyl substituents which may possibly be substituted by a cyclo-alkyl radical.
As further known, liposomes are much advantageous for -encapsulating biologically active substances. In this case, they may advantageously be formed from phospholipids such as lecithin, phosphatidyl-ethanolamine, phosphatidyl-serine or phosphatidic acid, for example.
However, because the liposome dispersions have a - rather short and ill-known storage life, it is generally necessary to put them into use during the first months after preparation in order to avoid undesirable modifi-cations in the course of time.
Thus, despite the many potential interesting appli-cations of the liposomes, the use thereof has been limited by their relatively short storage life.
It would therefore be desirable to increase the conservation period of the liposomes and thus broaden their many applications in the encapsulation field.
However, because of the relatively unstable structure of the liposomes, such conservation is connected with the solving of important practical problems. An object of the present invention is to markedly increase the conservation period of the liposomes and to maintain them in a stable condition from which they can be used, ~$~ 4 efficiently, at a later date.
Thus, an object of the present invention is a process for the dehydration of a liposome colloidal dispersion in an aqueous liquid medium, which comprises mixing a hydrophi-lic compound with the liposome dispersion and subjectingthe obtained mixture to a dehydration operation leading to the formation of liposomes under the form of a stable powder which can be stored for a long period and from which, and with an aqueous medium, a liposome dispersion can be reconstituted Preferably, the dehydration will be carried out by lyophilisation (freeze-drying) which consists in sub~ect-ing said mixture to freezing followed by reduced pressure evaporation. Thus, the aqueous medium can be separated lS from the liposome vesicles by going direclty from the solid to the gaseous state, the liposomes, therefore, not being subjected to any rough treatment and, thus, possible damages being avoided.
The liposome powder thus obtained is very stable during storage at room temperature and under moisture protection in a closed container, for instance in a vacuum-sealed package. This powder can be stored for a long period and, thereaftPr, reused by redispersing in a suitable aqueous medium in order to reconstitute a liposome dispersion.
Now, the dehydration operation is, in itself, not sufficient to practically implement the process of the invention and the initial mixing with a hydrophilic compound is a must. Effectively, it has been shown from experiments that the simple dehydration by lyophilisation of the liposome dispersion results in the forma~ion of an oily sticking residue~which is practically insoluble in water afterwards and which is thus useless for the reconstitution of a liposome dispersion suitable for - ~ . . ' :
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usual liposome application. Consequently, the process of the invention not only enables a prolonged storage of the liposomes but, simultaneously, ensures that they are under a form suitable for recovery and further uses.
The hydrophilic compound used for carrying out the process of the invention can be advantageously selected among various high molecular weight compounds. For instance, very satisfactory results have been obtained with different hydrophilic polymers such as dextran, 1~ ox-albumin, polyvinyl alcohoi (PVA), polyvinyl-pyrrolidone and gum arabic. Lower molecular weight compounds, such as sucrose can also be used. Therefore, said hydrophilic compound is actually a stabilizing additive which protects the liposomes of the dehydrated product and keeps them in a condition suitable for further use. Further, the presence of such a hydrophilic compound in the liposome powder is not likely to cause any particular inconvenience, especially if natural polymers chosen among those described above are used. Thus, when dextran is used, any kind of subsequent use of the liposome powder according to the invention can be contemplated.
In the cases where the liposomes thus preserved should be injected into the blood system, polyvinyl-pyrrolidone or dextran will preferably be used as the hydrophilic compound. Conversely, if the liposomes must be administered orally, it is possible to use all the hydrophilic compounds exemplified above.
The amount of said hydrophilic compound to be mixed with the liposome dispersion before dehydration will preferably be equal to the quantity of the substance making the liposome walls of said dispersion. However, this quantity of hydxophilic compound is not critical and can be varied within wide limits when using different embodiments of the invention The following Examples illustrate the invention in more details.

A liposome dispersion in water was prepared which comprised 25 mg of lecithin per ml of dispersion; the encapsulated solution was a 100 mg/ml aqueous insulin solution. Dextran (Pharmacia T-70) (25 mg/ml) was added as a stabilizer to the liposome dispersion and was thoroughly mixed therein. The liquid mixture was placed at - 30C for an hour after which it had solidified, then it was subjected to a reduced pressure of 0.1 Torr which caused the sublimation of the ice in a few hours.
The fine lyophilized powder thus obtained was stored under vaccum for a period of time. One hundred mg samples were taken at intervals, the first right after lyophilisation, the others after a fortnight, 1 month, 2 months, 6 months, 1 year and 1.5 years of storage period. These samples were easily dispersed in water and thus provided reconstituted dispersions of liposomes. Said dispersions were subjected to ultra-filtration in order to retain the liposomes and determine the amount of undamaged vesicles by titrating the free insulin of the filtrate and substracting the value from the total insulin of the dispersion. The results, recorded in Table I below, indicate that about 30% of the liposomes were destroyed initially durint lyophili-sation. On the other hand, the undamaged liposomes of the lyophilized powder did not undergo any significant degradation even after 1.5 year storage time.

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Liposome condition % of undamaged liposomes (storage time) Initial dispersion 100 5 Immediately after dehydration 68.2 15 days 71.5 l month 64.
6 months 66.6 1 year 70.4 1.5 years 65.2 The observed variations (+ 5%) around the average value are within the margin of measurement errors.

There was proceeded as described in Example I above ; 15 with the difference that dextran was replaced by an equal weight of gum arabic as stabilizer. After dehydration, the lyophilized powder contained 71.5% of the liposomes of the original colloidal dispersion. After two month storage, this value was still 70.2%, i.e. the storage ~0 period had caused no significant damage to the liposomes.
Other comparative experiments were run on the storage life of liposomes according to the invention and according to the procedures of Examples 1 and 2 above and using, respectively as stabilizers, ox-albumin, gum - 25 arabic, dextran, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyvinyl-pyrrolidone (PVP). The weight ratios of stabilizers to the lecithin of the liposomes was 1 : 1 on one series of cases and 4 : l ~n another series of cases. The results from these experiments showed that all stabilizers behaved about similarly and that increasing the amount thereof relatively to the liposomes improved the conservation results. F~r instance, in~the 4 : 1 ratio series, the recovery level after lyophilization went up to 76.2 of undamaged liposomes (stabilizer, gum arabic).

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The above discussion shows that the process of the invention can be worked relatively simply and rapidly.
The dehydration by lyophilization, as disclosed, is particularly advantageous since it is a careful processing which causes cnly a small percentage loss of the liposomes subjected thereto. It is however possible to contemplate other dehydration means, e.g.
drying in the presence of air at moderate temperature in order to prevent destroying the liposomes by heat.

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Claims (4)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY
OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A process for the dehydration of a colloidal dispersion of liposomes in aqueous liquid medium, which comprises mixing a hydrophilic compound with the lisposome dispersion and subjecting the obtained mixture to a dehydration operation leading to the formation of a stable liposome containing powder which can be stored for a long period and from which, plus an aqueous medium, a liposome dispersion can be reconstituted.
2. The process of Claim 1, which comprises freezing said mixture of the liposome dispersion and the hydrophilic compound and, thereafter, dehydrating said frozen mixture under reduced pressure in order to obtain said powder of liposomes.
3. The process of Claims 1 or 2, wherein said mix-ture of the liposome dispersion and the hydrophilic com-pound comprises, by weight, at least as much of the hydrophilic compound as of the material which constitutes the liposome envelope.
4. The process of Claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein said hydrophilic compound is selected from the group compri-sing dextran, gum arabic, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl-pyrrolidone and ox-albumin.
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