LIQUID CRYSTAL EMULSION-TYPE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING CYCLOSPORINE, AND METHOD OF TREATING CUTANEOUS DISEASE THEREWITH

摘要

A dermal external pharmaceutical composition that excels in feeling at application or after application and that by enhancing of the transdermal absorption of cyclosporine, exerts medicinal benefits at low concentration. There is provided a liquid crystal emulsion-type pharmaceutical composition comprising cyclosporine, a hydrophilic nonionic surfactant, a lipophilic nonionic surfactant, an oil, a fatty acid that is insoluble in the oil at room temperature, a solid higher alcohol that is insoluble in the oil at room temperature and a water-soluble polyhydric alcohol that is immiscible with the oil at room temperature, and a method of treating cutaneous diseases with the use of the pharmaceutical composition.