The skin: A pathway for systemic treatment with patches and lipid-based agent carriers

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 349-378

  Cevc, Gregor ^a   Blume, Gabriele ^b   Schätzlein, Andreas ^a,b   Gebauer, Dieter ^a   Paul, Amla ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IDEA GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Animal study; Clinical trial; Liposome; Permeation enhancer; Transdermal drug delivery; Transfersome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; LIPIDS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

LIPID BASED AGENT CARRIERS; PERMEATION ENHANCER; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY;

SKIN;

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DIACYLGLYCEROL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; DRUG CARRIER; FATTY ACID; INSULIN; LAUROCAPRAM; LIPOSOME; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MONOACYLGLYCEROL; OLEIC ACID; PENETRATION ENHANCING AGENT; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POLIDOCANOL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; RADIOISOTOPE; SKIN LIPID; SOLVENT; SURFACTANT; UNINDEXED DRUG; UREA DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG SOLUTION; DRUG TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; OINTMENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PHARMACEUTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN; STRATUM CORNEUM; SUSPENSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030574680     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-409X(95)00091-K     Document Type: Review

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