Considerations in the sterile manufacture of polymeric microneedle arrays

Drug Delivery and Translational Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-14

  McCrudden, Maelíosa T C ^a   Alkilani, Ahlam Zaid ^a,b   Courtenay, Aaron J ^a   McCrudden, Cian M ^a   McCloskey, Bronagh ^a   Walker, Christine ^a   Alshraiedeh, Nida ^a,c   Lutton, Rebecca E M ^a   Gilmore, Brendan F ^a   Woolfson, A David ^a   Donnelly, Ryan F ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b ZARQA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Endotoxin; Manufacture; Microneedle; Microorganism; Regulatory standards; Sterility

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; IBUPROFEN; OVALBUMIN; POLYMER; HYDROGEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; FREEZE DRYING; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; HYDROGEL; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICRONEEDLE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIC MICRONEEDLE ARRAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SWELLING; SWINE; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; NEEDLE; PIG; PROCEDURES; SKIN; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENDOTOXINS; FREEZE DRYING; GAMMA RAYS; HYDROGELS; IBUPROFEN; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; MICROINJECTIONS; NEEDLES; OVALBUMIN; POLYMERS; SKIN; SOLUBILITY; STERILIZATION; SWINE;

EID: 84921896508     PISSN: 2190393X     EISSN: 21903948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13346-014-0211-1     Document Type: Article

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