Theory of electrical creation of aqueous pathways across skin transport barriers

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-39

  Weaver, James C ^a   Vaughan, Timothy E ^a   Chizmadzhev, Yuri ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

Aqueous pathway; Electroporation; Mechanism; Theory; Transdermal drug delivery

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SKIN;

ELECTROPORATION; LOCAL TRANSPORT REGIONS;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN PERMEABILITY; THEORY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033521602     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-409X(98)00061-1     Document Type: Article

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