TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY PATCHES: A REVIEW Authors: Muskan Inamdar , SURESH JADHAV, SHANKAR DHOBALE, DUSHYANT GAIKWAD AND RUPALI THORAT-HANDE
ABSTRACT
Transdermal drug delivery is a topical drug delivery. This drug delivery system was studied to overcome
the drug delivery difficulties specially oral route of drug administrations. A transdermal patch is adhesive
patch which is placed on human skin to drug delivery of medication into bloodstream via human skin. The
injured area of human body promotes healing by this drug delivery. Transdermal patch provides
controlled release medication into patients. The human skin is effective barrier to deliver dose of drug.
Small molecules of drug easily penetrate the skin. The overall introduction of transdermal drug delivery
system i.e. skin anatomy, method of preparation, factors affecting, and evaluation is described in this
review article.
Keywords: Transdermal, permeation pathway, permeation enhancer Publication date: 15/12/2021 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2021/December/MS_IJBPAS_2021_DEC_SPCL_1032.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.12.1032