Glucose-Responsive Self-Regulated Injectable Silk Fibroin Hydrogel for Controlled Insulin Delivery

B Maity, H Moorthy, T Govindaraju - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems are gaining importance in personalized medicine
to deliver therapeutic doses in response to disease-specific stimulation. Pancreas-mimicking …

Injectable silk fibroin-based hydrogel for sustained insulin delivery in diabetic rats

B Maity, S Samanta, S Sarkar, S Alam… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Diabetes is a chronic disease affecting over 400 million people worldwide. Inadequate
production of insulin due to loss of beta cells or insulin resistance within the body …

Electro-responsive silk fibroin microneedles for controlled release of insulin

Z Qi, X Tao, G Tan, B Tian, L Zhang, SC Kundu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
To date, very limited work has been done on convenient and active control of insulin
release. Herein, we report an electro-responsive insulin delivery system based on thiolated …

Microneedle‐array patch fabricated with enzyme‐free polymeric components capable of on‐demand insulin delivery

S Chen, H Matsumoto, Y Moro‐oka… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving persistent glycemic control in a painless and convenient way is the ultimate goal
of diabetes management. Herein, an “enzyme‐free” polymeric microneedle (MN)‐array …

Smart microneedle fabricated with silk fibroin combined semi-interpenetrating network hydrogel for glucose-responsive insulin delivery

S Chen, H Matsumoto, Y Moro-Oka… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Microneedle (MN) technology, which can transdermally deliver insulin in a noninvasive
manner, offers a promising way to replace subcutaneous self-injection for diabetes …

Glucose-responsive silk fibroin microneedles for transdermal delivery of insulin

G Tan, F Jiang, T Jia, Z Qi, T Xing, SC Kundu, S Lu - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microneedles (MNs) have attracted great interest as a drug delivery alternative to
subcutaneous injections for treating diabetes mellitus. We report MNs prepared from …

Enhanced transdermal insulin basal release from silk fibroin (SF) hydrogels via iontophoresis

P Sakunpongpitiporn, W Naeowong, A Sirivat - Drug Delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Insulin is the peptide hormone used to treat the diabetes patient. The hormone is normally
taken by injection. The transdermal drug delivery system (TDDS) is an alternative route. The …

Synthesis of pH and glucose responsive silk fibroin hydrogels

X Tao, F Jiang, K Cheng, Z Qi, VK Yadavalli… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Silk fibroin (SF) has attracted much attention due to its high, tunable mechanical strength
and excellent biocompatibility. Imparting the ability to respond to external stimuli can further …

Insulin-loaded silk fibroin microneedles as sustained release system

S Wang, M Zhu, L Zhao, D Kuang… - … Science & Engineering, 2019 - ACS Publications
Silk fibroin has widely been used in biomedical applications for its excellent biocompatibility,
degradability, and mechanical properties. Microneedles are a suitable method for …

An Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Conjugated Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin Film for Diabetic Wound Healing: Fabrication, Physicochemical Property Characterization, and …

MJ Lin, MC Lu, YC Chan, YF Huang, HY Chang - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to develop a silk fibroin (SF)-film for the treatment of chronic diabetic
wounds. Silk fibroin was purified through a newly developed heating degumming (HD) …