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Tytuł: Fractal model of transdermal drug delivery

Autor:

Walicka, Anna ; Iwanowska-Chomiak, Beata

Data wydania:

2018

Typ zasobu:

artykuł

Współtwórca:

Jurczak, Paweł - red.

Tytuł publikacji grupowej:

IJAME, volume 23 (2018)

Abstract:

Skin, separating the vital organs of a human body, is a desirable route for drug delivery. However, the intact skin is normally permeable only for drug molecules with a low molecular weight. The stratum corneum (SC), being the outermost layer of the skin and the epidermis being the second - more permeable - layer of the skin, play an essential function in transdermal drug delivery. Physical and chemical methods of skin poration are used to enhance transdermal drug delivery. ; Each poration leads to an irregular system of pores which are connected with a system of micro-capillaries passing through the epidermis. Both the systems by their irregularity form a fractal porous matrix. Drugs administrated by this matrix can be either suspensions and solutions or creams and gels, therefore they have to be modelled as non-Newtonian fluids. To analyse the fluid flow through the porous matrix the model of the epidermis is assumed as gobbet-and-mortar with the tortuous mortar of variable thickness and after transition from the mortar to the tube one considered classical and fractal capillary flows of selected non-Newtonian fluids. ; Fractal expressions for the flow rate, velocity and permeability of fluids flow in a porous matrix are derived based on the fractal properties of the epidermis and capillary model. Each parameter in the proposed expressions does not contain any empirical constant and has a clear physical meaning and the proposed fractal models relate the flow properties of considered fluids with the structural parameters of the epidermis as a porous medium. The presented analytical expressions will help understand some of the physical principles of transdermal drug delivery.

Wydawca:

Zielona Góra: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski

Format:

application/pdf

Identyfikator zasobu:

oai:zbc.uz.zgora.pl:73003

DOI:

10.2478/ijame-2018-0056

Strony:

989-1004

Źródło:

IJAME, volume 23, number 4 (2018)

Jezyk:

eng

Licencja:

CC 4.0

Licencja CC BY-NC-ND 4.0:

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Prawa do dysponowania publikacją:

Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego

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Fractal model of transdermal drug delivery 2023-07-06

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