Microneedles for Transdermal Drug Delivery

This monograph covers a novel technology to deliver drugs and cosmetics through the skin in a minimally invasive manner. Microneedles a bed of miniaturized needles is one of the most studied topics in delivering actives through the skin barrier. This book enables readers to understand the delivery of ingredients through the skin, describes a novel and simple method to fabricate microneedles containing a range of small and large molecular weight compounds, studies their physical properties as well as delivery through the skin layers. Readers will discover this book to be extremely beneficial to help them understand the state of the field of transdermal drug delivery, with extensive coverage including experimental data on basics of microneedle fabrication technology using photolithography, encapsulation of drugs within the polymeric matrix of microneedles and studying their release patternsin vitro and ex vivo . Academic researchers, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industry as well as students of skin science will find this account very useful in their pursuits. As microneedles grow and develop into a commercial reality with more actives being delivered and significant clinical research being put in, this account will hold well in providing basic principles and knowledge together with rigorous experimental data.

Provides a comprehensive review of microneedle applications in the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields Offers a detailed account of polymeric microneedle fabrication, testing and application Present expert opinions on the future development of microneedle applications in cosmeceuticals

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Preface.- Introduction & Literature review.- Materials & Methods.- A Simple Method of Microneedle Array Fabrication for Transdermal Drug Delivery.- Protein Encapsulation in Polymeric Microneedles by Photolithography.- Microneedle Patch for Fast Onset and Long-lasting Delivery of Painkillers .- Microneedle Patch to Deliver Collagen through the Skin.- Recent trends in microneedle development & applications in medicine & cosmetics (2013-2018).- Conclusions & Future Directions.- Index.