title: Intranasal drug delivery for systemic medications.
abstract: This article is designed to provide a critical literature review on the scientific advances in intra- and transnasal drug delivery for systemic medication. The article discusses the fundamentals, developmental concepts, and biomedical assessment of the transnasal administration of systemically effective drugs which are either easily inactivated when taken orally, due to the extensive hepatic first-pass elimination, or too large in molecular size to be absorbed efficiently, except by i.v. administration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Chien
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D000281:Administration, Intranasal; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage; D010599:Pharmacokinetics
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations