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Microneedle
Development of dissolving microneedles for intradermal delivery of the long-acting antiretroviral…
Oral administration and intramuscular (IM) injection are commonly recommended options for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment. However, poor patient compliance due to daily oral dosing, pain at injection sites and the demand for trained healthcare staff for injections limit the success of…
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Microneedles for Enhanced Topical Treatment of Skin Disorders: Applications, Challenges, and…
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 while having minimum side effects. MNs are used to deliver different kinds of therapeutics (e.g., small molecules,…
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Formulation of antiretroviral nanocrystals and development into a microneedle delivery system for…
HIV/AIDS remains a major global public health issue. While antiretroviral therapy is effective at reducing the viral load in the blood, up to 50% of those with HIV suffer from some degree of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder, due to the presence of the blood-brain barrier restricting drugs from…
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Nano-and Microfabrication Techniques in Drug Delivery – Part 2
Nano-and Microfabrication Techniques in Drug Delivery
See the new book, edited by Dimitrios Lamprou. It brings together technical, clinical, regulatory and industrial perspectives. It provides future prospective and includes the potential clinical applications of nano/microfabrication technologies.…
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Overcoming barriers to patient adherence: the case for developing innovative drug delivery systems
Poor medication adherence is a pervasive issue with considerable health and socioeconomic consequences. Although the underlying reasons are generally understood, traditional intervention strategies rooted in patient-centric education and empowerment have proved to be prohibitively complex and/or…
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Predicting pharmaceutical inkjet printing outcomes using machine learning
Inkjet printing has been extensively explored in recent years to produce personalised medicines due to its low cost and versatility. Pharmaceutical applications have ranged from orodispersible films to complex polydrug implants. However, the multi-factorial nature of the inkjet printing process…
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Microneedle-assisted transdermal delivery of nanoparticles: Recent insights and prospects
Transdermal delivery of drugs offers an interesting alternative for the administration of molecules that present certain troubles when delivered by the oral route. It can produce systemic effects or perform a local action when the formulation exerts an optimal controlled drug release or a targeted…
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Polymer coated polymeric microneedles for intravitreal delivery of dexamethasone
The polymer coated polymeric (PCP) microneedles (MNs) is a novel approach for controlled delivery of drugs (without allowing release of the excipients) to the target site. PCP MNs was explored as an approach to deliver the drug intravitreally to minimize the risks associated with conventional…
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Modeling of Microneedle Arrays in Transdermal Drug Delivery Applications
The use of computational tools for the development of technologies in fields such as medicine and engineering has facilitated the process of designing new components and devices for these areas. In this work, two proposals focused on a hollow microneedle array (MNA) for the administration of an…
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Hydrogel-forming microarray patches with solid dispersion reservoirs for transdermal long-acting…
Hydrogel-forming microarray patches (HF-MAPs) are used to circumvent the skin barrier and facilitate the noninvasive transdermal delivery of many hydrophilic substances. However, their use in the delivery of hydrophobic agents is a challenging task. This work demonstrates, for the first time, the…
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