Journal
ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS
Volume 128, Issue -, Pages 3-28Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2017.09.013
Keywords
Controlled drug delivery; Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platforms; Microfluidic devices; Micro-reservoir; Drug carriers; Microneedles; Nanomaterials for drug delivery
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Funding
- NIH/NIAID [R21A1107415]
- NIH/NIGMS [SC2GM105584]
- NIH/NIMHD/RCMI [5G12MD007593-22]
- Emily Koenig Meningitis Fund from the Philadelphia Foundation
- Emily's Dash Foundation
- Medical Center of the Americas (MCA) Foundation
- U.S. NSF-PREM program [DMR 1205302]
- NIH BUILD program
- NIH BUILDing Scholar Summer Sabbatical Award [RL5GM118969, TL4GM118971, UL1GM118970]
- University of Texas System for the STARS Award
- IDR Program at the University of Texas at El Paso
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R21AI107415] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [UL1GM118970, TL4GM118971, RL5GM118969, SC2GM105584] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities [U54MD007593] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1205302] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Conventional systematically-administered drugs distribute evenly throughout the body, get degraded and excreted rapidly while crossing many biological barriers, leaving minimum amounts of the drugs at pathological sites. Controlled drug delivery aims to deliver drugs to the target sites at desired rates and time, thus enhancing the drug efficacy, pharmacokinetics, and bioavailability while maintaining minimal side effects. Due to a number of unique advantages of the recent microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology, microfluidic lab-on-a-chip has provided unprecedented opportunities for controlled drug delivery. Drugs can be efficiently delivered to the target sites at desired rates in a well-controlled manner by microfluidic platforms via integration, implantation, localization, automation, and precise control of various microdevice parameters. These features accordingly make reproducible, on-demand, and tunable drug delivery become feasible. On-demand self-tuning dynamic drug delivery systems have shown great potential for personalized drug delivery. This review presents an overview of recent advances in controlled drug delivery using microfluidic platforms. The review first briefly introduces microfabrication techniques of microfluidic platforms, followed by detailed descriptions of numerous microfluidic drug delivery systems that have significantly advanced the field of controlled drug delivery. Those microfluidic systems can be separated into four major categories, namely drug carrier-free micro-reservoirbased drug delivery systems, highly integrated carrier-free microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems, drug carrier-integrated microfluidic systems, and microneedles. Microneedles can be further categorized into five different types, i.e. solid, porous, hollow, coated, and biodegradable microneedles, for controlled transdermal drug delivery. At the end, we discuss current limitations and future prospects of microfluidic platforms for controlled drug delivery. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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