TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
Across
- 3. patch design with drug in sticky layer
- 5. drug movement through the skin
- 11. Use of a mild electric current to enhance skin drug delivery
- 12. patch design with drug in polymer
Down
- 1. patch design with drug compartment
- 2. ease of drug crossing skin layers
- 4. Drug property influencing its ability to cross lipid-rich skin layers
- 6. protective layer, mainly stratum corneum
- 7. agents that improve penetration
- 8. Ultrasound-based technique that increases drug penetration
- 9. Tiny needles that create microchannels to improve drug absorption
- 10. thickness of formulation affecting release