Iontophoretic administration of ionizable or polar medicaments to a mammalian body
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1. A bandage for iontophoretically administering a topical or systemic ionizable or polar medicament to a mammalian body having a wound, lesion, or the like thereon, comprising:
- (a) a substrate(b) an ionizable or polar medicament borne on said substrate, which medicament is responsive, in terms of migration to an electric field; and
(c) a single electrode of an electrochemically-active material in electrically cooperative relationship with said medicament, for generating an iontophoretically effective, localized electric current between said medicament and the mammalian body to which the bandage is applied, to thereby cause the medicament to migrate deeply within said wound, lesion, or the like upon activation of the bandage by electrolytic fluids.
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Abstract
A method for the iontophoretic administration of topical or systemic ionizable or polar medicaments to a mammalian body, and articles adapted therefor, are disclosed.
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1. A bandage for iontophoretically administering a topical or systemic ionizable or polar medicament to a mammalian body having a wound, lesion, or the like thereon, comprising:
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(a) a substrate (b) an ionizable or polar medicament borne on said substrate, which medicament is responsive, in terms of migration to an electric field; and (c) a single electrode of an electrochemically-active material in electrically cooperative relationship with said medicament, for generating an iontophoretically effective, localized electric current between said medicament and the mammalian body to which the bandage is applied, to thereby cause the medicament to migrate deeply within said wound, lesion, or the like upon activation of the bandage by electrolytic fluids. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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- 13. A method for iontophoretically administering a topical or systemic ionizable or polar medicament to a mammalian body having a wound, lesion, or the like thereon, whereby said medicament is responsive, in terms of migration, to an electric field, comprising the step of generating an electric field by voltaic interaction between a single electrode of electrochemically-active material borne upon a bandage substrate and in electrically-cooperative relationship with said medicament, and said body when said bandage substrate is placed over said wound, lesion, or the like, upon activation of the bandage by electrolytic fluids, whereby the medicament is caused to migrate deeply within said wound, lesion, or the like.
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