A mussel-inspired film for adhesion to wet buccal tissue and efficient buccal drug delivery

Minimally invasive drug delivery is of wide interest and oral tissue is an attractive target for this. Here, the authors report on the creation of mussel-inspired films for retention on the wet oral tissue for the delivery of drugs by diffusion and transport though the mucosal tissue.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shanshan Hu, Xibo Pei, Lunliang Duan, Zhou Zhu, Yanhua Liu, Junyu Chen, Tao Chen, Ping Ji, Qianbing Wan, Jian Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21989-5