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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
J Richard Gyory, San Jose, CA (US);
Jane Yieh, Millbrae, CA (US);
James A Huntington, Chicago, IL (US);
Michel Cormier, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
ALZA Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514724 ; 514-2 ; 514725 ;
Abstract
An electrotransport composition comprises at least one C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 lower alcohol, unsaturated derivatives thereof, or mixtures thereof, and at least one C.sub.8 -C.sub.14 higher alcohol, unsaturated derivatives thereof, or mixtures thereof. An electrotransport device and a method of increasing transdermal electrotransport flux utilize the composition of the invention for delivering pharmaceutically-acceptable agents across a body surface such as skin.