Artigo Produção Nacional

Estudo de padronização da pele de cobra espécie - Boa constrictor - como modelo de estrato córneo para permeação de fármacos

2005; Associação Sergipana de Ciências; Volume: 1; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1808-2793

Autores

Rogéria de Souza Nunes, Jacqueline Resende de Azevedo, Ana Paula Lemos Vasconcelos, Newton Lindolfo Pereira,

Tópico(s)

Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

Resumo

The potential usefulness of snake skin Boa constrictor as a model membrane for percutaneous drug release was examined. There are similarities between shed snake skin and human stratun corneum en terms of structure, composition, lipid content, water permeability, etc. Considering the similariries snake skin and human skin the Boa constrictor was used as a barrier for an in vitro permeation, the indomethacin was selected as a model of drug, indicated narrower variation of results in coefficients of variation and reproductibility of permeation profiles.

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