Microchips in Medicine: Current and Future Applications

With the objective of improving efficacy and morbidity, device manufacturers incorporate chemicals or drugs into medical implants. Using multiple reservoirs of discrete drug doses, microchips represent a new technology capable of on-demand release of various drugs over long periods of time. Herein,...

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Autores principales: Eltorai, Adam E. M., Fox, Henry, McGurrin, Emily, Guang, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27376079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1743472
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description With the objective of improving efficacy and morbidity, device manufacturers incorporate chemicals or drugs into medical implants. Using multiple reservoirs of discrete drug doses, microchips represent a new technology capable of on-demand release of various drugs over long periods of time. Herein, we review drug delivery systems, how microchips work, recent investigations, and future applications in various fields of medicine.
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spelling pubmed-49147392016-07-03 Microchips in Medicine: Current and Future Applications Eltorai, Adam E. M. Fox, Henry McGurrin, Emily Guang, Stephanie Biomed Res Int Review Article With the objective of improving efficacy and morbidity, device manufacturers incorporate chemicals or drugs into medical implants. Using multiple reservoirs of discrete drug doses, microchips represent a new technology capable of on-demand release of various drugs over long periods of time. Herein, we review drug delivery systems, how microchips work, recent investigations, and future applications in various fields of medicine. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4914739/ /pubmed/27376079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1743472 Text en Copyright © 2016 Adam E. M. Eltorai et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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