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Support vector regression to estimate the permeability enhancement of potential transdermal enhancers

Moss

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Abstract

Objectives
Searching for chemicals that will safely enhance transdermal drug delivery is a significant challenge. This study applies support vector regression (SVR) for the first time to estimating the optimal formulation design of transdermal hydrocortisone formulations.

Methods
The aim of this study was to apply SVR methods with two different kernels in order to estimate the enhancement ratio of chemical enhancers of permeability.

Key findings
A statistically significant regression SVR model was developed. It was found that SVR with a nonlinear kernel provided the best estimate of the enhancement ratio for a chemical enhancer.

Conclusions
Support vector regression is a viable method to develop predictive models of biological processes, demonstrating improvements over other methods. In addition, the results of this study suggest that a global approach to modelling a biological process may not necessarily be the best method and that a ‘mixed-methods’ approach may be best in optimising predictive models.

Acceptance Date Nov 19, 2015
Publication Date Jan 11, 2016
Journal Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Publisher David Publishing
Pages 170-184
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/jphp.12508
Keywords Gaussian processes, hydrocortisone, support vector machine, support vector regression, transdermal enhancer
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1111/jphp.12508