Physical enhancement of transdermal drug delivery: polysaccharide dissolving microneedles and micro thermal skin ablation

Transdermal drug delivery system has been limited to small and lipophilic drugs because skin has the intrinsic function to protect the body preventing entry of the external species into the body. In this thesis, two physical methods were studied to overcome the skin barrier in the controlled breakag...

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Main Author: Lee, Jeong Woo
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33920