코스메슈티컬 기반 약물 전달형 마이크로 패치 시스템의 개발

Development of Cosmeceutical Based Drug Delivering Micro Patch System

Cosmeceutical is a compound word of Cosmetics and Pharmaceutical, which implies a drug delivery system that can efficiently deliver drugs by combining cosmetics and medicine. This study adopted a microneedle patch system, a type of drug delivery system(DDS). The results of producing and experimenting with polymers such as CMC and pullulan showed that systems using pullulan, which increase adhesion and viscosity and have excellent film-type performance, were optimal. And with the maximum goal of being able to apply various drugs, we applied Finasteride(a kind of hair loss treatment drug) at the present stage. As a result of the content evaluation, we were able to confirm that the content in a series of three patches was over 95%. In this study, a micro-patches system containing finastride is expected to deliver drugs quickly, conveniently and efficiently to hair loss patients.