Transdermal drug delivery has given cardinal contribution to medical practices. First-
generation transdermal delivery of small, lipophilic, low-dose drugs and second-generation …

Transdermal delivery system has been extensively employed over the years owing to its
advantages over the conventional delivery systems. However, the stratum corneum hinders …

The most widely used methods for transdermal administration of the drugs are hypodermic
needles, topical creams, and transdermal patches. The effect of most of the therapeutic …

Microneedle (MN) technology plays an important role in biomedical engineering for their
less intrusive access to the skin due to minimally or painless penetration, enhancement of …

Microneedles have emerged as one of the most advanced and sophisticated transdermal
drug delivery system, offering many benefits over other conventional drug delivery systems …

Microneedles (MNs) are micron-scaled needles measuring 100 to 1000 μm that were
initially explored for delivery of therapeutic agents across the skin. Considering the success …

Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages due to its minimally invasive and
painless approach as well as the avoidance of first-pass drug metabolism and …

Novel drug delivery system offers several advantages which could outweigh the benefits of
other drug delivery systems. The transdermal drug delivery system being one of them offers …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the microneedle array technique and the most
recent developments in the field. Microneedle array technology is minimally invasive; it …

Objectives One of the thrust areas in drug delivery research is transdermal drug delivery
systems (TDDS) due to their characteristic advantages over oral and parenteral drug …