Elastic vesicles for transdermal drug delivery of hydrophilic drugs: A comparison of important physicochemical characteristics of different vesicle types

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 613-623

  Ntimenou, Vassiliki ^a   Fahr, Alfred ^b   Antimisiaris, Sophia G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dermal transdermal delivery; Edge activators; Elastic liposomes; Elasticity of vesicles; Integrity; Invasomes; Stability; Transfersomes

Indexed keywords

EDGE ACTIVATORS; INTEGRITY; INVASOMES; TRANSDERMAL DELIVERY; TRANSFERSOMES;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DRUG PRODUCTS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; ENCAPSULATION; HYDROPHILICITY; LIPOSOMES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELASTICITY;

CALCEIN; CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; CONVENTIONAL LIPOSOME; INVASOME; LIPOSOME; TRANSFERSOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENCAPSULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SKIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEINS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIPOSOMES; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84865149227     PISSN: 15507033     EISSN: 15507041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jbn.2012.1426     Document Type: Article

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