Diabetes treatment drug encapsulation and release study

• Main Author: Tendi, Jessica Kim
• Other Authors: Loo Say Chye Joachim
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62558
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Diabetes is a long-term disease suffered by many people worldwide and it has caused 4.9 million deaths in 2014 [1]. The transplantation of pancreatic islet cells into the anterior chamber of the eye (ACE) is a recent development which has shown potential as an emerging treatment among the various tr...