Iontophoresis

The act or process of introducing therapeutic agents into tissues using an electrical current or electrochemical gradient.


The therapeutic introduction of ions into the body tissues by direct current.


The movement of ions through a biological material when an electric current passes through it.


The technique of introducing through the skin, by means of an electric current, charged particles of a drug, so that it reaches a deep site. The method has been used to transfer salicylate ions through the skin in the treatment of deep rheumatic pain.


The introduction of an electric current into a salt solution, causing migration of the metal (positive) ion to the negative pole and the radical (negative) ion to the positive pole.


Process of infusing water-soluble products into the skin with the use of electric current, such as the use of the positive and negative poles of a galvanic machine.


 

 


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