Performance studies of particle acceleration for transdermal drug delivery

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 551-559

  Liu, Yi ^a,b  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contoured shock tube; Converging diverging; Drug delivery; Macromolecules; Nozzle; Supersonic; Transdermal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRUG PRODUCTS; GAS DYNAMICS; MACROMOLECULES; NOZZLES; POWDERS; SKIN;

CONTOURED-SHOCK-TUBE; CONVERGING-DIVERGING; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS FLOW; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; POWDER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; BIOLISTICS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; POWDERS; SKIN;

EID: 33746922330     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0050-4     Document Type: Article

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