Changes in skin a.c. impedance parameters in vivo during the percutaneous absorption of local anesthetics

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 459-462

  Woolfson, A D ^a   Moss, G P ^a,b   McCafferty, D F ^a   Lackermeier, A ^c   McAdams, E T ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A.c. impedance spectroscopy; Lidocaine prilocaine eutectic mixture; Percutaneous local anesthesia; Reservoir effect; Tetracaine

Indexed keywords

EMLA; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; TETRACAINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LIPOPHILICITY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN PERMEABILITY; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0032961351     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011994206954     Document Type: Article

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