Charged microbeads are not transported across the human stratum corneum in vitro by short high-voltage pulses

Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 181-192

  Chen, Tani ^a   Langer, Robert ^a,b   Weaver, James C ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Electroporation; High voltage pulsing; Microbeads; Microspheres; Particles; Skin; Transdermal drug delivery

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; MASS TRANSFER; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYCARBONATES; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; POLYSTYRENES; SKIN;

ELECTROPORATION; HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL PULSES; SPECTROFLUORIMETRY; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

LATEX; POLYCARBONATE; POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; POLYSTYRENES; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SUSPENSIONS;

EID: 0032987546     PISSN: 03024598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0302-4598(99)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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