Do high-voltage pulses cause changes in skin structure?

Journal of Controlled Release

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-326

  Prausnitz, Mark R ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Iontophoresis; Lipid bilayer pore; Permeability; Transdermal drug delivery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMPEDANCE; LIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SKIN PERMEABILITY; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029922803     PISSN: 01683659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-3659(95)00199-9     Document Type: Article

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