title: Transdermal delivery devices: fabrication, mechanics and drug release from silk.
abstract: Microneedles are a relatively simple, minimally invasive and painless approach to deliver drugs across the skin. However, there remain limitations with this approach because of the materials most commonly utilized for such systems. Silk protein, with tunable and biocompatibility properties, is a useful biomaterial to overcome the current limitations with microneedles. Silk devices preserve drug activity, offer superior mechanical properties and biocompatibility, can be tuned for biodegradability, and can be processed under aqueous, benign conditions. In the present work, the fabrication of dense microneedle arrays from silk with different drug release kinetics is reported. The mechanical properties of the microneedle patches are tuned by post-fabrication treatments or by loading the needles with silk microparticles, to increase capacity and mechanical strength. Drug release is further enhanced by the encapsulation of the drugs in the silk matrix and coating with a thin dissolvable drug layer. The microneedles are used on human cadaver skin and drugs are delivered successfully. The various attributes demonstrated suggest that silk-based microneedle devices can provide significant benefit as a platform material for transdermal drug delivery.
authors: Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology Center, Tufts University, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
authors: Waseem K
authors: WK
authors: Raja
authors: Scott
authors: S
authors: Maccorkle
authors: Izzuddin M
authors: IM
authors: Diwan
authors: Abdurrahman
authors: A
authors: Abdurrob
authors: Jessica
authors: J
authors: Lu
authors: Fiorenzo G
authors: FG
authors: Omenetto
authors: David L
authors: DL
authors: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D000279:Administration, Cutaneous; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D002102:Cadaver; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D006801:Humans; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009339:Needles; D047011:Silk / Q000737:chemistry*; D012867:Skin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D047011:Silk
keywords: micromachining; microneedles; microparticles; silk; transdermal drug delivery
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