Permeation Enhancers for Transdermal Drug Delivery: Strategies and Advancements Focusing Macromolecules

Pratikeswar Panda1, Arpita Sahu2

1Pratikeswar Panda, Department of Pharmaceutics, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India.

2Arpita Sahu, Department of Pharmaceutics, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India.

Manuscript received on 05 September 2023 | Revised Manuscript received on 13 September 2023 | Manuscript Accepted on 15 October 2023 | Manuscript published on 30 October 2023 | PP: 1-11 | Volume-3 Issue-6, October 2023 | Retrieval Number: 100.1/ijapsr.F4028103623 | DOI: 10.54105/ijapsr.F4028.103623

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Abstract: The various transdermal drug delivery method, allows medications to cross the biological barriers and enter the bloodstream to elicit desired pharmacological response. The relevant article focuses on the numerous biological and other macromolecule-based permeation enhancers including carbohydrates, protein-peptides and lipids used in transdermal drug delivery. Though the focus of the study is on role of macromolecule, as well as their mechanisms and modes of action for efficient transdermal drug delivery, it also concentrates on the recent developments in various permeation enhancement techniques. Transdermal administration of weakly permeable medications with shorter biological half-lives typically makes use of the permeation augmentation techniques and agents, which should not have any explicit toxicological implications and incompatibility within the formulations. In this review, limelight has been given to the promising permeation enhancers of current scenario which consist of various macromolecules. 

Keywords: Permeation Enhancer, Macromolecules, Stratum Corneum, Enhancement Methods, Biomolecular Transdermal Delivery, Paracellular Pathway.
Scope of the Article: Pharmaceutics