Transdermal theranostics

Skin offers an easily accessible site for drug administration as well as for health signal monitoring, with non‐invasiveness or minimal‐invasiveness, convenience, and good patient compliance. Transdermal theranostics promises for personalized, home‐based, and long‐term management of chronic diseases...

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Main Authors: Than, Aung, Zan, Ping, Chen, Peng
Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
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Language:English
Published: 2021
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1475302023-12-29T06:49:32Z Transdermal theranostics Than, Aung Zan, Ping Chen, Peng School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Innovative Centre for Flexible Devices Engineering Transdermal Theranostics Microneedles Skin offers an easily accessible site for drug administration as well as for health signal monitoring, with non‐invasiveness or minimal‐invasiveness, convenience, and good patient compliance. Transdermal theranostics promises for personalized, home‐based, and long‐term management of chronic diseases, and is expected to change the landscape of healthcare profoundly. In this article, we review the recent advances in transdermal drug delivery, diagnosis based on sweat and skin interstitial fluid, and wearable devices. The advantages, limitations, and commercialization of these emerging techniques are comparatively discussed. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This research is supported by Singapore Ministry of Education under its AcRF tier 1 grant (RG52/17). 2021-04-06T02:46:15Z 2021-04-06T02:46:15Z 2020 Journal Article Than, A., Zan, P. & Chen, P. (2020). Transdermal theranostics. View, 1(2), e21-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/viw2.21 1861-6445 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147530 10.1002/viw2.21 2 1 e21 en View © 2020 The Authors. VIEW published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd and Shanghai Fuji Technology Consulting Co., Ltd, authorized by Professional Community of Experimental Medicine, National Association of Health Industry and Enterprise Management (PCEM). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. application/pdf
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country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Engineering
Transdermal Theranostics
Microneedles
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Transdermal Theranostics
Microneedles
Than, Aung
Zan, Ping
Chen, Peng
Transdermal theranostics
description Skin offers an easily accessible site for drug administration as well as for health signal monitoring, with non‐invasiveness or minimal‐invasiveness, convenience, and good patient compliance. Transdermal theranostics promises for personalized, home‐based, and long‐term management of chronic diseases, and is expected to change the landscape of healthcare profoundly. In this article, we review the recent advances in transdermal drug delivery, diagnosis based on sweat and skin interstitial fluid, and wearable devices. The advantages, limitations, and commercialization of these emerging techniques are comparatively discussed.
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Chen, Peng
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title Transdermal theranostics
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