Microneedle Assisted Micro-Particle Delivery from Gene Guns: Experiments using skin-mimicking agarose gel

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 613-627

  Zhang, Dongwei ^a   Das, Diganta B ^a   Rielly, Chris D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agarose gel; Biocompatibility; Biomaterials; Gene gun; Micro needle; Particle size; Penetration depth; Skin; Stainless steel micro particles; Transdermal drug delivery

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GEL; GENE GUN; GENE TARGETING; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; MICRONEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SKIN; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWINE; VISCOELASTICITY;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMATERIALS; GENE GUN; STAINLESS STEEL MICRO-PARTICLES; MICRO-NEEDLE; PENETRATION DEPTH; AGAROSE GEL; PARTICLE SIZE; SKIN; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; EAR, EXTERNAL; ELASTICITY; GELS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NEEDLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; SEPHAROSE; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SWINE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84895919548     PISSN: 00223549     EISSN: 15206017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jps.23835     Document Type: Article

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