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Title:
Compositions for topical application to animal tissue and method of enhancing penetration thereof
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What is claimed is:
1. A composition for application to animal tissue comprising a safe and effective amount of a anticholinergic scopolamine ester compound and from about 0.1% to about 10.0% of an aliphatic sulfoxide selected from the group consisting of octyl methyl sulfoxide, nonyl methyl sulfoxide, decyl methyl sulfoxide, undecyl methyl sulfoxide, dodecyl methyl sulfoxide, 2-hydroxydecyl methyl sulfoxide, 2-hydroxyundecyl methyl sulfoxide, and 2-hydroxydodecyl methyl sulfoxide.
2. The composition of claim 1 wherein the anticholinergic compound is selected from the group consisting of the free base and acid salt forms of a compound having the general structural formula: ##EQU3## wherein ##EQU4## is selected from the group consisting of a straight chain acyl group, a branched acyl group, an aromatic acyl group and a cyclic acyl group, containing from 4 to about 12 carbon atoms.
3. The composition of claim 1 wherein the anticholinergic compound is para-methoxybenzoyl scopolamine.
Other info:
Inventors:
MacMillan, Francis S. Kilmer (Cincinnati, OH, US) Lyness, Warren I. (Cincinnati, OH, US)
Application Number:
541901
Filing Date: 1975-01-17 Publication_date: 1976-04-27 Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, OH)
Primary Class(es):
514/304
424/65, 514/708, 514/947
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:
| 3312709 | Apr, 1967 | Kilmer-MacMillan | 260/292. | | 3326768 | Jun, 1967 | Kilmer-MacMillan | 424/265. | | 3527864 | Sep, 1970 | Kilmer-MacMillan et al. | 424/337. | | 3678156 | Jul, 1972 | Kilmer-MacMillan et al. | 424/68. | | 3839566 | Oct, 1974 | Kilmer-MacMillan et al. | 424/337. | | 3903256 | Feb, 1975 | Kilmer-MacMillan et al. | 424/59. |
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Other References:
F. S. Kilmer-MacMillan et al., J. Invest. Dermat. 43(5):363- 377, Nov. 1964, "The Antiperspirant Action of Topically Applied Anticholinergics." |