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Wearable patches for transdermal drug delivery

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Abstract

Transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDs) avoid gastrointestinal degradation and hepatic first-pass metabolism, providing good drug bioavailability and patient compliance. One emerging type of TDDs is the wearable patch worn on the skin surface to deliver medication through the skin. They can generally be grouped into passive and active types, depending on the properties of materials, design principles and integrated devices. This review describes the latest advancement in the development of wearable patches, focusing on the integration of stimulus-responsive materials and electronics. This development is deemed to provide a dosage, temporal, and spatial control of therapeutics delivery. © 2023 Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2298-2309
JournalActa Pharmaceutica Sinica B
Volume13
Issue number6
Online published15 May 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2023

Funding

Chenjie Xu appreciates the support by Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Grant (7020029) from City University of Hong Kong, General Research Fund (GRF) grant from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (CityU 11200820, 11202222), and the Mainland/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme sponsored by the RGC Hong Kong and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (N_CityU118/20). Xinge Yu acknowledges the Inno HK funding support from the Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering (COCHE)

Research Keywords

  • Biomaterials
  • Drug delivery
  • Microneedles
  • Transdermal delivery
  • Wearable patch

Publisher's Copyright Statement

  • This full text is made available under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

RGC Funding Information

  • RGC-funded

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