Design of Skin Penetration Enhancers Using Replacement Methods for the Selection of the Molecular Descriptors

Transdermal delivery of certain drugs is challenging because of skin barrier resistance. This study focuses on the implementation of feature-selection algorithms to design chemical penetration enhancers. A database, consisting of 145 polar and nonpolar chemicals, was chosen for the investigation. Re...

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Main Authors: Beshoy Abdelmalek, Laurent Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-07-01
Series:Pharmaceutics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/4/3/343