Microneedle applications in improving skin appearance

MTC McCrudden, E McAlister… - Experimental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Microneedles (MN s) are micron‐sized, minimally invasive devices that breach the
outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC), creating transient, aqueous pores in …

Microneedles in action: microneedling and microneedles-assisted transdermal delivery

DJ Lim, HJ Kim - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human skin is a multilayered physiochemical barrier protecting the human body. The
stratum corneum (SC) is the outermost keratinized layer of skin through which only …

Drug delivery using microneedle patches: not just for skin

JW Lee, MR Prausnitz - Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Drug delivery is often limited by the need to cross a barrier to gain access to target tissues. In
the case of skin, the main barrier is the skinLs outer layer of stratum corneum, which …

[HTML][HTML] Stimuli-responsive transdermal microneedle patches

P Makvandi, R Jamaledin, G Chen… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Microneedle (MN) patches consisting of miniature needles have emerged as a promising
tool to perforate the stratum corneum and translocate biomolecules into the dermis in a …

[HTML][HTML] Microneedles for enhanced topical treatment of skin disorders: applications, challenges, and prospects

T Peng, Y Chen, W Hu, Y Huang, M Zhang, C Lu… - Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Microneedles (MNs) can be used for the topical treatment of skin disorders as they directly
deliver therapeutics to the site of skin lesions, resulting in increased therapeutic efficacy …

[HTML][HTML] Advances of microneedles in hormone delivery

TT Nguyen, TTD Nguyen, G Van Vo - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
The skin is recognized as a potential target for local and systemic drug delivery and
hormone. However, the transdermal route of drug administration seems to be limited by …

Progress in microneedle-mediated protein delivery

R Jamaledin, C Di Natale, V Onesto… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The growing demand for patient-compliance therapies in recent years has led to the
development of transdermal drug delivery, which possesses several advantages compared …

The role of microneedles for drug and vaccine delivery

HL Quinn, MC Kearney, AJ Courtenay… - Expert opinion on …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Transdermal drug delivery offers a number of advantages for the patient, not
only due to its non-invasive and convenient nature, but also due to factors such as …

Microneedles for intradermal and transdermal drug delivery

TM Tuan-Mahmood, MTC McCrudden… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The formidable barrier properties of the uppermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum,
impose significant limitations for successful systemic delivery of broad range of therapeutic …

Microneedles permit transdermal delivery of a skin-impermeant medication to humans

DP Wermeling, SL Banks, DA Hudson… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Drugs with poor oral bioavailability usually are administered by hypodermic injection, which
causes pain, poor patient compliance, the need for trained personnel, and risk of infectious …