Current status and future prospects of needle-free liquid jet injectors

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 543-548

  Mitragotri, Samir ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CHOLERA VACCINE; DNA VACCINE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INSULIN; INTERFERON; LIDOCAINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDAZOLAM; NAKED DNA; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; SMALLPOX VACCINE; STEROID;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; CHOLERA; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INJECTION SITE BLEEDING; INJECTION SITE CONTUSION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; JET INJECTION; JET INJECTOR; KELOID; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NEEDLE; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLIOMYELITIS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SCAR; SKIN PENETRATION; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VIRUS; TUMOR REGRESSION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INJECTIONS, JET; INSULIN; NEEDLES; VACCINES;

EID: 33745646496     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: 14741784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd2076     Document Type: Review

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