The skin forms an attractive and accessible route for systemic delivery of drugs as alternative
to other methods of administration, such as the oral and parental methods because of the
problems associated with last ...
The skin is the largest and most easily accessible organ of the human body thus making it the ideal
route for systemic drug delivery. The transdermal route of drug delivery offers several advantages
compared to the ...
Non–melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most common human malignancy and it is estimated
that over 1.3 million cases are diagnosed each year in the United States (Neville et al.,
2007:462). There are three main types of ...
Most individuals are influenced by pain at some stage in their lives. It can either be of acute or chronic nature. An acute pain condition initiates and is treated within a time span of 12 weeks. Chronic pain can, however, ...
Extra pulmonary tuberculosis makes up 10% of all tuberculosis cases and cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB) only a fraction of this 10%. CTB is caused by mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can lead to scarring and deformities. ...
Local anaesthetics have been implemented extensively in the case of a variety of painful
superficial procedures, venipuncture, skin graft harvesting, anal or genital pruritus, poison ivy
rashes, postherpetic neuralgia ...
Acyclovir is an antiviral drug used in the treatment and prevention of herpes simplex and
varicella-zoster viral infections. The major problem in the transdermal delivery of
acyclovir is the permeation in sufficient ...