Journal
JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages 893-905Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1002/jps.21025
Keywords
transungual; iontophoresis; human nail plate; electroosmosis; electrophoresis
Funding
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM063559-05, R01 GM063559, GM063559] Funding Source: Medline
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Transungual iontophoretic transport of model neutral permeants mannitol (MA), urea (UR), and positively charged permeant tetraethylammonium ion (TEA) across fully hydrated human nail plates at pH 7.4 were investigated in vitro. Four protocols were involved in the transport experiments with each protocol divided into stages including passive and iontophoresis transport of 0.1 and 0.3 mA. Water and permeant uptake experiments of nail clippings were also conducted to characterize the hydration and binding effects of the permeants to the nails. Iontophoresis enhanced the transport of MA and UR from anode to cathode, but this effect (electroosmosis) was marginal. The transport of TEA was significantly enhanced by anodal iontophoresis and the experimental enhancement factors were consistent with the Nernst-Planck theory predictions. Hindered transport was also observed and believed to be critical in transungual delivery. The barrier of the nail plates was stable over the time course of the study, and no significant electric field-induced alteration of the barrier was observed. The present results with hydrated nail plates are consistent with electrophoresis-dominant (the direct field effect) transungual iontophoretic transport of small ionic permeants with small contribution from electroosmosis. (C) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. and the American Pharmacists Association.
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