Patent 8435554 was granted and assigned to Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories on May, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Compositions for nasal administration, which comprise a pharmaceutical, a physiologically active peptide, or a peptide-related compound, and as the carrier thereof, crystalline cellulose with a specific particle diameter and/or partially pregelatinized starch are provided. Such compositions improve the in vivo absorption efficiency of pharmaceuticals.