Transdermal drug delivery using microneedles is increasingly gaining interest due to the issues associated with oral drug delivery routes. Gastrointestinal route exposes the drug to …
Women often have limited access to contraception, and barrier methods have low acceptance and a high failure rate, mostly due to incorrect use, which can result in …
G Ma, C Wu - Journal of Controlled Release, 2017 - Elsevier
Microneedles (MNs) are micro-scale needles used for drug delivery and other targets. Micro- scale size endows them with many advantages over hypodermic needles, including …
Conventional systematically-administered drugs distribute evenly throughout the body, get degraded and excreted rapidly while crossing many biological barriers, leaving minimum …
Microneedle arrays (MNA) are considered as one of the most promising resources to achieve systemic effects by transdermal delivery of drugs. They are designed as a minimally …
X Jin, DD Zhu, BZ Chen, M Ashfaq, XD Guo - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Diabetes, a metabolic disorder of glucose, is a serious chronic disease and an important public health problem. Insulin is one of the hormones for modulating blood glucose level …
W Li, J Tang, RN Terry, S Li, A Brunie, RL Callahan… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
To increase access to long-acting contraception, we developed a reversible contraceptive microneedle patch that is simple-to-administer, slowly releases contraceptive hormone …
Dissolvable transdermal microneedles (μND) are promising micro-devices used to transport a wide selection of active compounds into the skin. To provide an effective therapeutic …
The progress in microneedle research is evidenced by the transition from simple 'poke and patch'solid microneedles fabricated from silicon and stainless steel to the development of …