13 citations
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January 2001 in “Skin pharmacology and physiology” This article discusses a new device for visualizing and quantifying skin distribution of a radioactively labelled compound, but reports no new clinical results.
8 citations
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October 2022 in “International Journal of Legal Medicine” This study concluded that drug-distribution measurements using micro-segmental hair analysis are effective for drowned bodies, as natural water containing divalent ions prevents drug washout from hair.
7 citations
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February 2018 in “International Journal of Pharmaceutics” This study found that the cyanoacrylate biopsy method could effectively evaluate drug distribution in hair follicles, suggesting its potential utility for assessing topically applied chemicals targeting hair follicles.
October 2023 in “Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety” This study found that in Denmark, dermatology drugs are mostly used as expected, but identified a few unexpected patterns that warrant targeted follow-up to determine if there is inappropriate use.
54 citations
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October 2002 in “Journal of controlled release” This study found that increasing a drug's lipophilicity and adding ethanol to the donor phase can enhance its delivery to the hair follicle, although the precise transport mechanism remains unclear.
1 citations
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July 2005 in “Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences” Targeting drugs to hair follicles can treat skin conditions, but reaching deep follicle areas is hard and needs more research.
1 citations
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July 2005 in “CRC Press eBooks” This paper discusses topical drug delivery targeting the pilosebaceous unit for skin diseases and cosmetic purposes, emphasizing formulation choice and drug physicochemical properties but reports no new findings.
9 citations
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October 2013 in “Drug Delivery” This research found that ethosomes significantly enhanced finasteride delivery into the dermis of human cadaver skin compared to liposomes in an in vitro study.
30 citations
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June 2017 in “Talanta” This review discusses the critical parameters for MALDI IMS sample preparation in skin analysis and highlights its applications in wound healing, neoplasia, and infection research, but reports no new clinical results.
27 citations
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March 2022 in “Forensic Toxicology” This review discusses micro-segmental hair analysis for forensic toxicology, emphasizing its potential to provide detailed drug distribution profiles and its application in investigations, while noting the method's limitations and future perspectives.
20 citations
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August 2017 in “Drug testing and analysis” This study used micro-segmental hair analysis to identify the day of drug intake and suggested differing uptake mechanisms for co-administered drugs based on their properties.
36 citations
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September 2019 in “Journal of Herbal Medicine” This review explores research on nanoformulations for enhancing the topical delivery of herbal medicines, noting potential benefits like improved bioavailability and sustained delivery, and emphasizes the need for safety and toxicity guidelines in developing these novel drug delivery systems.
September 2017 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” QMSI effectively maps and quantifies drug distribution in skin tissues.
21 citations
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April 2021 in “ACS omega” In this study, curcumin was efficiently loaded into PS–PAA nanoparticles at the formation stage, showing even distribution at low concentrations and good biocompatibility with human skin fibroblasts.
May 2023 in “Frontiers in chemistry” This study found that hair from the vertex posterior is a reliable sampling region for detecting zolpidem intake, showing consistent drug concentration and peak position compared to other scalp regions.
8 citations
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February 2017 in “Clinical Drug Investigation” This paper discusses the adverse effects of finasteride, including sexual dysfunction and depression, and suggests that treatment customization based on individual factors like hand preference and sexual orientation could improve outcomes and reduce these side effects.
67 citations
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May 2013 in “Therapeutic drug monitoring” This study explores the complexities of interpreting single drug exposure in hair, emphasizing factors like drug distribution variability and suggests methods to validate single exposure findings in forensic cases.
42 citations
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August 2016 in “Nanomedicine” In this study, TyroSpheres were used to encapsulate adapalene, increasing its solubility and enhancing skin distribution while reducing irritancy compared to a commercial formulation, indicating promise for acne treatment in ex vivo and in vitro settings.
June 2022 in “Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)” This review discusses the potential of microneedles as a pain-free drug delivery method that improves medication distribution while addressing issues associated with traditional transdermal formulations.
3 citations
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July 2016 in “Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research” This study found that the proposed LC-MS/MS method accurately quantified the drug content in split tablets of finasteride and terbinafine, revealing significant variability and suggesting that non-scored tablets should not be split.
26 citations
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May 2012 in “Pharmaceutical Development and Technology” PEVs effectively deliver minoxidil through skin.
8 citations
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March 2021 in “Drug testing and analysis” This study improved a hair analysis method to estimate the days of continuous ingestion of hay-fever medicines, with an average error of about 2 days from actual ingestion.
3 citations
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December 1994 in “JEADV. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology/Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology” In this study, itraconazole was shown to accumulate in the deeper skin layers of guinea pigs after oral administration, suggesting this delivery method effectively targets infective organisms there.
March 2026 in “Jurnal Pharmascience” This study found that isorhamnetin, a compound from the Rampai plant, showed a lower affinity energy in molecular docking tests compared to Minoxidil, indicating potential as an androgen receptor antagonist for alopecia therapy in silico, with favorable pharmacokinetic characteristics in ADME-Tox predictions.
This review discusses recent advances in polydopamine-based biomaterials and their growing potential in personalized medicine, but reports no new experimental results; the authors highlight both opportunities and challenges for future applications.
This study reported the genotypic and allelic frequencies of seven SNPs associated with androgenetic alopecia in Mexican individuals, highlighting significant differences in one SNP between cases and controls in Western Mexico.
3 citations
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January 2022 in “Pharmaceutics” This review examines new formulations for delivering 5-α-reductase inhibitors to improve targeted drug delivery in androgenetic alopecia, but reports no new clinical results.
1 citations
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January 2007 in “Zhōnghuá yàoxué zázhì” In this study, ethosomes were more effective than liposomes for delivering finasteride through human skin, showing higher transdermal flux and accumulation, especially in deeper skin layers.
405 citations
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January 2004 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” This study found that hair follicle characteristics vary significantly across different body sites, with the forehead and calf showing the highest potential follicular reservoirs, challenging previous assumptions about skin appendage distribution.
5 citations
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August 2011 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” This report describes a rare case of cyclophosphamide-associated neutrophilic folliculitis, suggesting its inclusion in differential diagnoses for acneiform eruptions.