Transdermal patches: Design and current approaches to painless drug delivery
Use of transdermal patches can evade many issues associated with oral drug delivery, such as first-pass hepatic metabolism, enzymatic digestion attack, drug hydrolysis and degradation in acidic media, drug fluctuations, and gastrointestinal irritation. This article reviews various transdermal patche...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2019-06-01
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Series: | Acta Pharmaceutica |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/acph-2019-0016 |