Potential pitfalls in skin permeation experiments: Influence of experimental factors and subsequent data evaluation

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 324-331

  Henning, Andreas ^a   Schaefer, Ulrich F ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human skin preparation; Lag time; Modelling; Permeation; Temperature; Unstirred water layer

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIFFUSION; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; SKIN PENETRATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PERMEABILITY; SKIN ABSORPTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67349280382     PISSN: 09396411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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