Skin permeabilization for transdermal drug delivery: recent advances and future prospects

Introduction: Transdermal delivery has potential advantages over other routes of administration. It could reduce first-pass metabolism associated with oral delivery and is less painful than injections. However, the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC), limits passive diffusion to sm...

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Main Authors: Schoellhammer, Carl Magnus, Blankschtein, Daniel, Langer, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Informa UK (Informa Healthcare) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91233
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