WO1993013808A2 - Improvements in or relating to contrast agents - Google Patents
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- WO1993013808A2 WO1993013808A2 PCT/EP1993/000027 EP9300027W WO9313808A2 WO 1993013808 A2 WO1993013808 A2 WO 1993013808A2 EP 9300027 W EP9300027 W EP 9300027W WO 9313808 A2 WO9313808 A2 WO 9313808A2
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Definitions
- This invention relates to novel contrast agents, more particularly to new microparticulate contrast agents of use in diagnostic imaging.
- ultrasonic imaging comprises a potentially valuable diagnostic tool, for example in studies of the vascular system, particularly in cardiography, and of tissue microvasculature.
- a variety of contrast agents has been proposed to enhance the acoustic images so obtained, including suspensions of solid particles, emulsified liquid droplets, gas microbubbles and encapsulated gases or liquids. It is generally accepted that low density contrast agents which are easily compressible are particularly efficient in terms of the acoustic backscatter they generate, and considerable interest has therefore been shown in the preparation of gas-containing and gas-generating systems.
- EP-A-0123235 and EP-A-0122624 suggest ultrasound contrast agents consisting of surfactant-coated or surfactant-containing gas-containing microparticles which may include a variety of sugars. Where surfactant-containing microparticles are described, these are prepared simply by commingling the surfactant with the microparticulate materials, e.g. by trituration.
- DE-A-3834705 proposes the use of suspensions containing microparticles of mixtures of at least one C 10.20 fatty acid with at least one non-surface active substance, including sugars such as cyclodextrins, monosaccharides, disaccharides or trisaccharides, as well as other polyols and inorganic and organic salts; in practice only the use of galactose as the non-surface active material and only the use of saturated fatty acids are exemplified.
- the microparticulate materials are typically prepared by coprecipitating the fatty acid and non-surface active substance and comminuting the resulting product, e.g. using an air-jet mill.
- Gas-containing contrast media are also known to be effective in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, e.g. as susceptibility contrast agents which will act to reduce MR signal intensity.
- Oxygen-containing contrast media also represent potentially useful paramagnetic MR contrast agents.
- gases such as carbon dioxide may be used as negative oral contrast agents.
- a general disadvantage of most of the existing gas- containing/gas-generating particulate contrast agents such as the sugar-based agents discussed above is their relative lack of stability in vivo. This is a particular problem in applications such as echocardiography, where there is a need for improved contrast agents combining sufficient stability and small microbubble size (typically less than about 10 ⁇ m, preferably less than about 7 ⁇ m) to permit passage through the pulmonary capillary bed and so allow enhanced visualisation of the left side of the heart, preferably for more than one passage of circulation. There is accordingly a need for contrast agents which generate microbubble systems exhibiting good stability while still providing an effective level of contrast efficiency.
- contrast agents comprising microparticles of a carbohydrate having a surfactant admixed therewith (but excluding the previously disclosed mixtures of galactose and saturated C 10 . 20 fatty acids) may be used to generate microbubble systems exhibiting enhanced contrast effect and/or stability relative to previously proposed carbohydrate-based contrast agents.
- this may be demonstrated by, for example, in vitro measurements of initial attenuation levels and the half lives of the attenuative effect; a useful indication of the combined effect of these properties is the integral obtained by determining the area under the curve of a plot of attenuation against time.
- surfactant means any compound having amphiphilic properties capable of modifying surface tension.
- contrast agents comprising microbubble-generating carbohydrate microparticles having a surfactant admixed within the microparticulate structure, with the proviso that the surfactant is not a saturated C, 0 _ 20 fatty acid when the microparticulate carbohydrate is galactose.
- the microparticulate carbohydrate is preferably water soluble, and subject to the foregoing proviso may for example be selected from hexoses such as glucose, fructose or galactose; disaccharides such as sucrose, lactose or maltose; pentoses such as arabinose, xylose or ribose; and polysaccharides such as - , ⁇ - and y- cyclodextrins, maltodextrin and glycogen; the term "carbohydrate” as used herein is also intended to embrace sugar alcohols, e.g. alditols such as mannitol or sorbitol.
- hexoses such as glucose, fructose or galactose
- disaccharides such as sucrose, lactose or maltose
- pentoses such as arabinose, xylose or ribose
- polysaccharides such as - , ⁇ - and
- Microparticles of the above carbohydrates will normally have gas present as an inclusion in the voids of their crystal structure and/or adhered to their surface, which gas may generate microbubbles when, for example, the microparticles are suspended or dissolved in an injectable carrier liquid, for example water for injection, an aqueous solution of one or more inorganic salts (e.g. physiological saline or a physiological buffer solution) , an aqueous solution of a monosaccharide (e.g. glucose or galactose) or disaccharide (e.g. lactose) , or an aqueous solution of a physiologically tolerable monohydric or polyhydric alcohol (e.g. ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, glycerine or polyethylene glycol) .
- an injectable carrier liquid for example water for injection, an aqueous solution of one or more inorganic salts (e.g. physiological saline or
- any biocompatible gas may be employed in the contrast agents of the invention, for example nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, helium, argon, sulphur hexafluoride and low molecular weight optionally fluorinated hydrocarbons such as methane, acetylene or carbon tetrafluoride.
- gas as used herein includes any substance in the gaseous form at 37°C. The gas may be contained in the contrast agent in such a way that before use the product is non-contrast giving but becomes effective on administration, e.g. as a result of the gas forming microbubbles as a soluble carbohydrate matrix dissolves.
- the carbohydrate may incorporate one or more gas precursors, including carbonates and bicarbonates (e.g. sodium or ammonium bicarbonate) and aminomalonate esters.
- gas precursors including carbonates and bicarbonates (e.g. sodium or ammonium bicarbonate) and aminomalonate esters.
- surfactants may be used in the ultrasound contrast agents of the invention; it will of course be appreciated that the surfactant is required to be biocompatible, i.e. that it should be physiologically tolerable in the quantities in which it is to be administered.
- the surfactant is advantageously biodegradable in vivo or otherwise readily eliminable from the system.
- the surfactant may, for example, be an a phiphilic .
- lipid e.g. selected from fatty acids and salts (e.g. alkali metal salts) thereof, steroid acids, sterols, phospholipids and glycolipids.
- Such lipids include high molecular weight (e.g.
- C 10 _ 50 straight chain saturated and unsaturated aliphatic acids, such as capric, palmitic, hexadecanedioic, stearic, linolenic, behenic, docosanedioic and melissic acids; aralkanoic acids, e.g. phenyl lower alkanoic acids such as 2-phenylbutyric acid; salts of any of the foregoing acids; mono- and di- glycerides, for example glyceryl esters of high molecular weight (e.g.
- C 10.50 aliphatic acids, such as glyceryl monolaurate; cholanic acids such as 53-cholanic acid; cholesterol; sorbitan esters of fatty acids such as Span-type materials; high molecular weight (e.g. C 10. 50 ) straight chain aliphatic alcohols such as stearyl alcohol and cetyl alcohol; phospholipids such as phosphatidyl choline (lecithin) and dioleoylphosphatidyl ethanolamine (DOPE) ; and mixtures thereof.
- aliphatic acids such as glyceryl monolaurate
- cholanic acids such as 53-cholanic acid
- cholesterol sorbitan esters of fatty acids
- Span-type materials high molecular weight (e.g. C 10. 50 ) straight chain aliphatic alcohols such as stearyl alcohol and cetyl alcohol
- phospholipids such as phosphatidyl choline (lecithin) and dioleo
- surfactants which may be employed include anionic surfactants, for example alkali metal alkyl sulphates such as sodium lauryl sulphate and sulphonated esters such as sodium dioctyl sulphosuccinate
- non-ionic surfactants for example polyoxyethylene-polyoxyproplyene copoly ers (e.g. poloxamers such as Pluronic F68) and polyoxyethylated sorbitan esters (e.g. polysorbates such as Tween-type materials) .
- polyoxyethylene-polyoxyproplyene copoly ers e.g. poloxamers such as Pluronic F68
- polyoxyethylated sorbitan esters e.g. polysorbates such as Tween-type materials
- the surfactant moiety may if desired be covalently linked to a substrate such as a carbohydrate prior to its admixture with the principal microparticulate carbohydrate.
- a fatty acid such as palmitic acid (preferably in the form of a reactive derivative such as a corresponding acyl halide) may be used to esterify a (preferably appropriately O- protected) sugar such as galactose and the resulting lipophilically modified carbohydrate used as the surfactant in accordance with the invention.
- the surfactant may, for example, be present in an amount of 0.01-5.0 wt. %, preferably 0.1-2.0 wt. %, relative to the microparticulate carbohydrate.
- the contrast agents of the invention may be used in a variety of diagnostic imaging techniques, including ultrasound, MR and X-ray imaging. Their uses in diagnostic ultrasonic imaging and MR imaging, e.g. as susceptibility contrast agents, constitute preferred features of the invention.
- the contrast agents of the invention may be prepared by any convenient method which leads to physical admixture of the surfactant within the microparticulate structure of the carbohydrate and to production of microparticles of the desired size. In one preferred method according to the invention the carbohydrate and the surfactant are each dissolved in appropriate mutually miscible solvents (e.g.
- a (preferably aqueous) solution of the carbohydrate is mixed with a liposome-forming material (e.g. a thin film of a lipid such as lecithin formed on the inner surface • of the mixing vessel by evaporating the solvent from a solution of the lipid in an appropriate organic solvent, for example a chlorinated hydrocarbon such as chloroform) so as to form a liposome-containing carbohydrate solution from which the solvent may be removed (e.g. by freeze-drying) to yield a product comprising carbohydrate-containing liposomes; this product may be micronised to given microparticles of the desired size.
- a liposome-forming material e.g. a thin film of a lipid such as lecithin formed on the inner surface • of the mixing vessel by evaporating the solvent from a solution of the lipid in an appropriate organic solvent, for example a chlorinated hydrocarbon such as chloroform
- micronisation techniques such as grinding or milling may be employed in processes according to the invention.
- Ball-milling of the solid mixture has been found to be particularly advantageous, permitting the preparation of microparticles in the form of aggregates (for example having an aggregate size of 20-125 micrometres, such as 30-50 micrometres) of particles having a particle size of, for example, 1-50 micrometres, such as 1-10 micrometres.
- aggregates will tend to contain a substantial volume of air adsorbed on their surfaces and entrained in voids such as interparticle cavities or at grain boundaries between the crystallites.
- the particle size may, for example, be selected to be substantially commensurate with the desired microbubble size.
- microbubbles and microparticles having an average size of 0.1-10 ⁇ m e.g. 1-7 ⁇ m
- the use of microparticles of average size 1-4 ⁇ m to generate microbubbles with an average size of 4-7 ⁇ m is generally advantageous.
- Substantially larger bubbles and particles, e.g. with average sizes up to 500 ⁇ m, may however be useful in other applications, for example gastrointestinal imaging.
- Ultrasound contrast agents in the form of microparticles comprising a microbubble-generating carbohydrate in admixture with an amphiphilic organic acid containing in excess of 20 carbon atoms are the subject matter of our international patent application cofiled herewith and claiming priority from British patent application No. 9200387.0.
- D-(+) -galactose (10.Og) was dissolved in distilled water (14.2g) at 50°C, sterile filtered and cooled on ice to a temperature of 4-8°C.
- the stated amounts of the surfactants (in % w/w relative to the galactose) listed in Table I were each dissolved in the amount of 96% ethanol (or water in Examples 5 and 6) shown in the Table, at 50-78°C, and the resulting solution was sterile filtered and then aseptically added to the cold aqueous galactose solution under stirring.
- the resulting mixture was evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure (10 torr, 40°C), and the resulting solid product was dried in a desiccator overnight and then ground for 10 minutes under aseptic conditions in a stainless steel ball mill having a 50 ml grinding cup and 3 x 20 mm balls (Retsch centrifugal ball mill, SI) .
- the ground product was dried in a desiccator for 24 hours.
- 1,2,3,4-Diisopropylidene-D-galactopyranose (Sigma, 0 13.4 g, 51.3 mmol) and triethylamine (7.15 ml, 51.3 mmol) were dissolved in methylene chloride (150 ml) and cooled to 0° C. Palmitoyl chloride (Aldrich, 14.1 g, 51.3 mmol) dissolved in methylene chloride (100 ml) was added dropwise with stirring over 1 h. The cooling bath was removed and the reaction mixture was stirred overnight.
- the product was characterized by FT-IR:CO-1734 cm “1 ; OH- 3464 cm “1 .
- phosphatidylcholine 1 ml 100 mg/ml phosphatidylcholine was dissolved in 10 ml chloroform. The mixture was poured into a round bottom flask, and the organic phase was evaporated at 40°C in such a way that a thin film of the phosphatidylcholine was formed on the inner surface of the flask. 10 ml of a sterile, pyrogen free 40% aqueous D-(+) -galactose solution was then added at 40°C and the flask was kept rotating for 1 hour.
- aqueous solution containing liposomes and dissolved galactose was then freeze-dried for 24 hours, and the resulting product consisting of freeze-dried galactose and freeze- dried galactose-filled liposomes was then ground in a ball-mill to yield a product with a particle size distribution of 1-20 ⁇ m.
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