Transdermal delivery of carvedilol containing glycyrrhizin and chitosan as permeation enhancers: Biochemical, biophysical, microscopic and pharmacodynamic evaluation

Drug Delivery

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 443-454

  Sapra, Bharti ^a   Jain, Subheet ^a   Tiwary, A K ^a  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Differential Scanning Calorimetry; Glycyrrhizin; Saponin; Scanning Electron Microscopy; Transmission Electron Microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARVEDILOL; CHITOSAN; CHOLESTEROL; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE ACETATE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; LIPID; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SPHINGOSINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG SOLUBILITY; EPIDERMIS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADJUVANTS, PHARMACEUTIC; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CARBAZOLES; CHITOSAN; CHOLESTEROL; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG SYNERGISM; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PERMEABILITY; PROPANOLAMINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN ABSORPTION; SOLUBILITY; SPHINGOSINE; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 49949093286     PISSN: 10717544     EISSN: 15210464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10717540802327047     Document Type: Article

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