Transdermal drug administration device
OwnerKei Tamura, Keigo Inosaka +1inventors
InventorsKei Tamura, Keigo Inosaka, Yuji Saeki
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Abstract
The present invention provides a transdermal drug administration device capable of freely controlling release of the drug. The transdermal drug administration device of the present invention contains a backing layer and a matrix layer provided on at least one surface of the backing layer, wherein the matrix layer contains a region located on a proximal side from the backing layer and a region located on a distal side from the backing layer, and the water-absorbing polymers therein have different weight concentrations, which enables high control of a drug released from the device.
Claims6
A transdermal drug administration device comprising a backing layer and a matrix layer provided on at least one surface of the backing layer, wherein the matrix layer comprises a region located on a proximal side from the backing layer (hereinafter to be referred to as the first part) and a region located on a distal side from the backing layer (hereinafter to be referred to as the second part), at least the first part comprises a water-absorbing polymer, and the water-absorbing polymer in the first part has a higher weight concentration than that of the water-absorbing polymer in the second part.
4 The transdermal drug administration device of claim 1, wherein the matrix layer comprises a material having adhesiveness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.