An Investigation of the Role of Cavitation in Low-Frequency Ultrasound-Mediated Transdermal Drug Transport
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Pharmaceutical Research
- Vol. 19 (8) , 1160-1169
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1019898109793
Abstract
Purpose.Low-frequency ultrasound (20 kHz) has been shown to increase the skin permeability to drugs, a phenomenon referred to as low-frequency sonophoresis (LFS). Many previous studies of...Keywords
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