Multi-pulse drug delivery from a resorbable polymeric microchip device

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 767-772

  Richards Grayson, Amy C ^a,d   Choi, Insung S ^b   Tyler, Betty M ^c   Wang, Paul P ^c   Brem, Henry ^c   Cima, Michael J ^a   Langer, Robert ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

CHRONIC PAIN; HORMONE DEFICIENCIES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MOLECULAR MASSES; MULTI-PULSE DRUG DELIVERY; POLYMERIC MICROCHIP DEVICE;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 0242499354     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat998     Document Type: Article

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