Insulin therapy is necessary to regulate blood glucose levels for people with type 1 diabetes
and commonly used in advanced type 2 diabetes. Although subcutaneous insulin …

The past twenty five years have seen an explosion in the creation and discovery of new
medicinal agents. Related innovations in drug delivery systems have not only enabled the …

The use of ultrasound for the delivery of drugs to, or through, the skin is commonly known as
sonophoresis or phonophoresis. The use of therapeutic and high frequencies of ultrasound …

Transdermal drug delivery offers an attractive alternative to the conventional drug delivery
methods of oral administration and injections. However, the stratum corneum serves as a …

The Handbook of Pharmaceutical Controlled Release Technology reviews the design,
fabrication, methodology, administration, and classifications of various drug delivery …

Varied therapeutic peptides and proteins represent a rapidly growing part of marketed drugs
and have an undisputed place alongside other established therapies. Nevertheless, such …

Application of ultrasound enhances skin permeability to a variety of molecules
(sonophoresis). The enhancement induced by ultrasound is particularly significant at low …

Purpose. Application of therapeutic ultrasound (frequency: 1–3 MHz and intensity: 0–2 W/cm
2) enhances transdermal drug transport, although typically by a factor of less than 10. In this …

Upon publication of the first edition of Therapeutic Peptides and Proteins ten years ago there
were only 19 biotechology medicines on the market. Currently there are more than 100, with …

Transdermal drug delivery offers an attractive alternative to the conventional drug delivery
methods of oral administration and injection. However, the stratum corneum acts as a barrier …