MEMS-enabled implantable drug infusion pumps for laboratory animal research, preclinical, and clinical applications

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 64, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1628-1638

  Meng, Ellis ^a   Hoang, Tuan ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

BioMEMS; Drug delivery; Electrolysis actuators; Infusion pumps; Localized delivery; MEMS; Micropumps; Microvalves; On demand release

Indexed keywords

INFUSION PUMP; LOCALIZED DELIVERY; MICRO PUMP; MICRO VALVES; ON-DEMAND RELEASE;

ANIMALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMEMS; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG INFUSION; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; MEMS;

PUMPS;

BACLOFEN; FLOXURIDINE; FLUOROCARBON; INSULIN; MORPHINE SULFATE; NANOPARTICLE; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; SPHINGOSINE KINASE 1;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC PAIN; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG RELEASE; ELECTROLYSIS; FLOW RATE; GENE TARGETING; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSMOTIC PUMP; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SPASTICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTROLYSIS; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84868199975     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 18728294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2012.08.006     Document Type: Review

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