Microneedles for Drug Delivery via the Gastrointestinal Tract

Microneedles for Drug Delivery via the Gastrointestinal Tract

Both patients and physicians prefer the oral route of drug delivery. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract, though, limits the bioavailability of certain therapeutics because of its protease and bacteria-rich environment as well as general pH variability from pH 1 to 7. These extreme environments make ora...

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Main Authors: Schroeder, Avi (Contributor), Maa, Ruby C. (Contributor), Lauwers, Gregory Y. (Author), Polat, Baris E. (Contributor), Blankschtein, Daniel (Contributor), Langer, Robert (Contributor), Traverso, Gio (Contributor), Schoellhammer, Carl Magnus (Contributor), Anderson, Daniel Griffith (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Wiley Blackwell, 2014-10-01T15:55:35Z.
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