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  • Title: Hydration and percutaneous absorption: I. Influence of hydration on alkanol permeation through hairless mouse skin.
    Author: Behl CR, Flynn GL, Kurihara T, Harper N, Smith W, Higuchi WI, Ho NF, Pierson CL.
    Journal: J Invest Dermatol; 1980 Oct; 75(4):346-52. PubMed ID: 7430699.
    Abstract:
    A method to study the influence of hydration on skin permeability where the skin is immersed in saline for up to 30 hr and under circumstances where a steady state rate of permeation can be established in several minutes is indicated. These circumstances allow multiple, sequential runs over a period where the permeability coefficients of some chemicals are gradually changing. It has been found that the permeabilities of water, methanol and ethanol are little affected by such hydration. However, there is a doubling of the permeability coefficients of butanol and hexanol during the first 10 hr of immersion. More hydrophobic alkanols seem to be less sensitive to the protracted aqueous conditioning. In general the results indicate that there are complex molecular structure-permeability relationships operating in skin. More specifically, the hydration effects are insightful with respect to developing barrier models for skin as they are further indications that different parallel diffusional paths are followed by polar and semi- and nonpolar species.
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