Printing Tablets with Fully Customizable Release Profiles for Personalized Medicine.
Personalizing the release profiles of drugs is important for different people with different medical and biological conditions. A technically simple and low-cost method to fabricate fully customizable tablets that can deliver drugs with any type of release profile is described. The customization is intuitively straightforward: the desired profile can simply be "drawn" and printed by a 3D printer.
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore, 117585, Singapore.
Yajuan
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Sun
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore, 117585, Singapore.
Siowling
S
Soh
D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D065546:Drug Liberation; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D057285:Precision Medicine; D011327:Printing / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D066330:Printing, Three-Dimensional; D013607:Tablets
D011108:Polymers; D013607:Tablets
3D printing; drug delivery; personalized medicine; programmable release; release profiles