Transdermal Delivery of Anti-Obesity Compounds to Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue with Polymeric Microneedle Patches

• Main Authors: Than, Aung, Liang, Ke, Xu, Shaohai, Sun, Lei, Duan, Hongwei, Xi, Fengna, Xu, Chenjie, Chen, Peng
• 其他作者: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2017
• 主題: Microneedle; Transdermal delivery
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86323; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43991
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Excess white adipose tissue (WAT), or obesity, is the leading cause of many diseases. Combating obesity is, however, challenging due to the fact that laboratory-proven anti-obesity compounds lose effectiveness or/and cause severe side-effects while being delivered via conventional routes. Here, a ne...