Electrical properties of skin at moderate voltages: Contribution of appendageal macropores

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 2 I, 1998, Pages 843-856

  Chizmadzhev, Yuri A ^a   Indenbom, Andrey V ^a   Kuzmin, Peter I ^a   Galichenko, Sergey V ^a   Weaver, James C ^b   Potts, Russell O ^c  

^a FRUMKIN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Cygnus Therapeutic Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONTOPHORESIS; LIPID BILAYER; MALE; SKIN APPENDAGE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN PERMEABILITY; STRATUM CORNEUM;

EID: 0031904017     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)74008-1     Document Type: Article

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