[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of microneedles: Types, materials, processes, characterizations and applications

FK Aldawood, A Andar, S Desai - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drug delivery through the skin offers many advantages such as avoidance of hepatic first-
pass metabolism, maintenance of steady plasma concentration, safety, and compliance over …

[HTML][HTML] Bone tissue engineering in the treatment of bone defects

N Xue, X Ding, R Huang, R Jiang, H Huang, X Pan… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bones play an important role in maintaining exercise and protecting organs. Bone defect, as
a common orthopedic disease in clinics, can cause tremendous damage with long treatment …

Microneedle array systems for long-acting drug delivery

LK Vora, K Moffatt, IA Tekko, AJ Paredes… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of microneedles (MNs) assisted drug delivery technologies have been
highly active for more than two decades. The minimally invasive and self-administered MN …

[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 …

The role of 3D printing technology in microengineering of microneedles

U Detamornrat, E McAlister, ARJ Hutton, E Larrañeta… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microneedles (MNs) are minimally invasive devices, which have gained extensive interest
over the past decades in various fields including drug delivery, disease diagnosis …

Microneedles for drug and vaccine delivery

YC Kim, JH Park, MR Prausnitz - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Microneedles were first conceptualized for drug delivery many decades ago, but only
became the subject of significant research starting in the mid-1990's when microfabrication …

Approaches for breaking the barriers of drug permeation through transdermal drug delivery

A Alexander, S Dwivedi, TK Giri, S Saraf, S Saraf… - Journal of controlled …, 2012 - Elsevier
Transdermal drug delivery system (TDDS) utilizes the skin as executable route for drug
administration but the foremost barrier against drug permeability is the stratum corneum and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microneedle mediated transdermal delivery of protein, peptide and antibody based therapeutics: current status and future considerations

M Kirkby, ARJ Hutton, RF Donnelly - Pharmaceutical research, 2020 - Springer
The success of protein, peptide and antibody based therapies is evident-the
biopharmaceuticals market is predicted to reach $388 billion by 2024 [1], and more than half …

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 …