The success of transdermal drug delivery has been severely limited by the inability of most
drugs to enter the skin at therapeutically useful rates. Recently, the use of micron-scale …

Editorial Donnelly has concentrated on hydrophilic drugs. This is hardly surprising, due to
the ever-expanding list of therapeutic macromolecules of biological origin that have to be …

Drug delivery research extensively studies methods to transport proteins, deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA), genes, antibodies, and vaccines efficiently and safely to human bodies in recent …

The success of transdermal drug delivery has been severely limited by the inability of most
drugs to enter the skin at therapeutically useful rates. Recently, the use of micron-scale …

Excellent impervious nature of skin is the greatest challenge that has to be overcome for
successfully delivering drug molecules to the systemic circulation by this route. Various …

Skin diseases are the fourth leading cause of nonfatal and chronic skin diseases, acting as a
global burden and affecting the world economy. Skin diseases severely impact the patients' …

The outermost layer of skin, the stratum corneum, has developed unnerving physical and
immunological barrier properties that prevent infiltration of noxious chemicals and …

Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages for the patient, due to not only its
noninvasive and convenient nature, but also factors such as avoidance of first-pass …

The extensively used novel methods such as micro-and nano-systems for transdermal
administration of the medication are hypodermic needles, topical creams, vesicular system …