[HTML][HTML] Microneedle arrays as transdermal and intradermal drug delivery systems: Materials science, manufacture and commercial development

E Larrañeta, REM Lutton, AD Woolfson… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages for the patient, due not only its non-
invasive and convenient nature, but also factors such as avoidance of first pass metabolism …

Polymeric microneedles for transdermal protein delivery

Y Ye, J Yu, D Wen, AR Kahkoska, Z Gu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The intrinsic properties of therapeutic proteins generally present a major impediment for
transdermal delivery, including their relatively large molecule size and susceptibility to …

[HTML][HTML] Recent approaches for enhancing the performance of dissolving microneedles in drug delivery applications

T Bauleth-Ramos, N El-Sayed, F Fontana, M Lobita… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Dissolving microneedles (dMNs) are promising versatile drug delivery systems for the
transdermal delivery of numerous drugs, enabling their use in a wide range of biomedical …

Transdermal delivery of drugs with microneedles—potential and challenges

K Ita - Pharmaceutics, 2015 - mdpi.com
Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages including improved patient
compliance, sustained release, avoidance of gastric irritation, as well as elimination of pre …

Microneedles: a new frontier in nanomedicine delivery

E Larrañeta, MTC McCrudden, AJ Courtenay… - Pharmaceutical …, 2016 - Springer
This review aims to concisely chart the development of two individual research fields,
namely nanomedicines, with specific emphasis on nanoparticles (NP) and microparticles …

Materials for immunotherapy

CW Shields IV, LLW Wang, MA Evans… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Breakthroughs in materials engineering have accelerated the progress of immunotherapy in
preclinical studies. The interplay of chemistry and materials has resulted in improved …

Progress and perspective of microneedle system for anti-cancer drug delivery

D Li, D Hu, H Xu, HK Patra, X Liu, Z Zhou, J Tang… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Transdermal drug delivery exhibited encouraging prospects, especially through superficial
drug administration routes. However, only a few limited lipophilic drug molecules could …

Microneedle system for transdermal drug and vaccine delivery: devices, safety, and prospects

X He, J Sun, J Zhuang, H Xu, Y Liu, D Wu - Dose-response, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Microneedle (MN) delivery system has been greatly developed to deliver drugs into the skin
painlessly, noninvasively, and safety. In the past several decades, various types of MNs …

Smart vaccine delivery based on microneedle arrays decorated with ultra-pH-responsive copolymers for cancer immunotherapy

HTT Duong, Y Yin, T Thambi, TL Nguyen, VHG Phan… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite the tremendous potential of DNA-based cancer vaccines, their efficacious delivery
to antigen presenting cells to stimulate both humoral and cellular response remains a major …

Enhanced Cancer Vaccination by In Situ Nanomicelle-Generating Dissolving Microneedles

NW Kim, SY Kim, JE Lee, Y Yin, JH Lee, SY Lim… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Efficient delivery of tumor antigens and immunostimulatory adjuvants into lymph nodes is
crucial for the maturation and activation of antigen-presenting cells (APCs), which …