Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems : Revised and Expanded

Presents authoritative state-of-the-art discussions of the key issues pertinent to transdermal drug delivery, examining those topics necessary to enable a critical evaluation of a drug candidate''s potential to be delivered across the skin; from physical chemistry and assessment of drug permeability to available enhancement technolgies, to regulatory approval.

Brent E. Vecchia and Annette L. Bunge

Skin Absorption Databases and Predictive Equations
Brent E. Vecchia and Annette L. Bunge

Partitioning of Chemicals into Skin: Results and Predictions
Brent E. Vecchia and Annette L. Bunge

Iontophoresis: Applications in Drug Delivery and Noninvasive Monitoring
M. Begoña Delgado-Charro and Richard H. Guy

Skin Electroporation for Transdermal and Topical Drug Delivery
Véronique Préat and Rita Vanbever

Sonophoresis: Ultrasound-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery
Victor Meidan

Metabolic Approach to Transdermal Drug Delivery
Peter M. Elias, Kenneth R. Feingold, Janice Tsai, Carl Thornfeld, and Gopinathan Menon

The Application of Supersaturated Systems to Percutaneous Drug Delivery
Mark Pellett, S. Lakshmi Raghavan, Jonathan Hadgraft, and Adrian Davis

Minimally Invasive Systems for Transdermal Drug Delivery
James A. Down and Noel G. Harvey

Transdermal Drug Delivery System Regulatory Issues
Vinod P. Shah

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