NEW COCHLEATE FORMULATIONS, PROCESS OF PREPARATION AND THEIR USE FOR THE DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT MOLECULES

摘要

A process for producing a small-sized, lipid-based cochleate. Cochleates are derived from liposomes which are suspended in an aqueous two-phase polymer solution, enabling the differential partitioning of polar molecule based-structures by phase separation. The liposome-containing two-phase polymer solution, treated with positively charged molecules such as Ca<2+> or Zn<2+>, forms a cochleate precipitate of a particle size less than one micron. The process may be used to produce cochleates containing biologically relevant molecules.