“…The smaller, and therefore more mobile, buffer ions will carry more charge and be transported into the skin preferentially, reducing delivery efficiency. Increasing the buffer ion concentration of the donor solution, thereby increasing its ionic strength, or decreasing the concentration of solute, have been found to decrease the iontophoretic flux of both charged (Burnette and Marrero, 1986;Bellantone et al, 1986;Lelawongs et al, 1989;Green et al, 1991) and neutral (Burnette and Marrero, 1986;Burnette and Ongpipattanakul, 1987;Pikal and Shah, 1990a,b) solutes at relatively high concentraltions (0.05-0.5 M), while increasing flux at low concentrations (0.01-0.05 M) (Kumar et al, 1992). Removing buffer ions results in a steadily increasing delivery rate of peptide with time (Green et al, 1991).…”