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Review Article


Transdermal Spray in Hormone Delivery

Evren Algın-Yapar1* and Özge İnal2

1The Ministry of Health of Turkey, Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency, Söğütözü Mahallesi, 2176. Sokak No. 5, 06520 Çankaya-Ankara, 2Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ankara, 06100 Tandoğan- Ankara, Turkey

                                                                                                                          

*For correspondence: Email: evren.yapar@yahoo.com, algin@pharmacy.ankara.edu.tr; Tel: +90 0532 382 56 86

 

Received: 23 July 2012                                                                          Revised accepted: 15 February 2014

 

Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, March 2014; 13(3): 469-474

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjpr.v13i3.23   

Abstract

 

This review examines advances in hormone delivery, particularly using transdermal spray. Transdermal gels, emulsions, patches, subcutaneous implants and sprays have been developed for transdermal hormone therapy in recent years. Transdermal sprays, in their general form of metered-dose transdermal spray, possess major advantages such as enhanced passive transdermal drug delivery with little or no skin irritations, improved cosmetic acceptability, dose flexibility, uniform distribution on the application site and ease of manufacture, and have thus assumed significant importance in hormone delivery. Estradiol, nestrone, testosterone and hydrocortisone aceponate are some of the drugs prepared as metered-dose transdermal spray. Results from recent surveys indicate that there is a market for the delivery system and ongoing development of transdermal sprays for hormone delivery.

 

Keywords: Transdermal, Delivery systems, Metered dose, Spray, Hormone

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