%0 Journal Article
%T TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM: REVIEW
%A Vishvakarama Prabhakar
%A Agarwal Shivendra
%A Sharma Ritika
%A Saurabh Sharma
%J International Research Journal of Pharmacy
%D 2012
%I International Research Journal of Pharmacy
%X Various new technologies have been developed for the transdermal delivery of some important drugs. Today about 74% of drugs are taken orally and are found not to be as effective as desired. To improve such characters transdermal drug delivery system was emerged. Drug delivery through the skin to achieve a systemic effect of a drug is commonly known as transdermal drug delivery and differs from traditional topical drug delivery. Transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDS) are dosage forms involves drug transport to viable epidermal and or dermal tissues of the skin for local therapeutic effect while a very major fraction of drug is transported into the systemic blood circulation. The adhesive of the transdermal drug delivery system is critical to the safety, efficacy and quality of the product. Topical administration of therapeutic agents offers many advantages over conventional oral and invasive methods of drug delivery. This review article provides an overview of TDDS, its advantages over conventional dosage forms, drug delivery routes across human skin, penetration enhancers, various components of Transdermal patches, types of Transdermal patches, methods of preparation and its physicochemical methods of evaluation.
%K TDDS
%K Topical drug delivery
%K Systemic blood circulation
%K Types
%K method of preparation and evaluation parameters of Transdermal patches.
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