Painless drug delivery through microneedle-based transdermal patches featuring active infusion

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1063-1071

  Roxhed, Niclas ^a   Samel, Björn ^a   Nordquist, Lina ^b   Griss, Patrick ^c   Stemme, Göran ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ZÜHLKE ENGINEERING AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Insulin; Intradermal; Microneedles; Transdermal

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DRUG INFUSION; INSULIN; NEEDLES;

DISPENSING FUNCTIONALITY; INTRADERMAL; MICRONEEDLES; TRANSDERMAL;

DRUG DELIVERY;

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; INSULIN LISPRO; ISOPHANE INSULIN; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DIFFUSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJECTION PAIN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN TREATMENT; MALE; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INSULIN INFUSION SYSTEMS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 39749199632     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.906492     Document Type: Article

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