Microneedles for painless transdermal immunotherapeutic applications

H Amani, MA Shahbazi, C D'Amico, F Fontana… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has recently garnered plenty of attention to improve the clinical outcomes in
the treatment of various diseases. However, owing to the dynamic nature of the immune …

Exploiting unique features of microneedles to modulate immunity

C Edwards, SA Shah, T Gebhardt… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microneedle arrays (MNAs) are small patches containing hundreds of short projections that
deliver signals directly to dermal layers without causing pain. These technologies are of …

Current progress in particle-based systems for transdermal vaccine delivery

J Pielenhofer, J Sohl, M Windbergs… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Transcutaneous immunization (TCI) via needle-free and non-invasive drug delivery systems
is a promising approach for overcoming the current limitations of conventional parenteral …

Dissolvable microneedles based on Panax notoginseng polysaccharide for transdermal drug delivery and skin dendritic cell activation

C Wang, S Liu, J Xu, M Gao, Y Qu, Y Liu, Y Yang… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work explored the feasibility of using biological polysaccharide to fabricate dissolvable
microneedles (MNs) for the purpose of transdermal drug delivery and skin dendritic cell (DC) …

Treating allergies via skin–recent advances in cutaneous allergen immunotherapy

LD Nesovic, AK Shakya, HS Gill - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy has been practiced clinically for decades to treat
airborne allergies. Recently, the cutaneous route, which exploits the immunocompetence of …

Recent advances in epicutaneous immunotherapy and potential applications in food allergy

PL Hervé, V Dioszeghy, K Matthews, KJ Bee… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Given the potent immunological properties of the skin, epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT)
emerges as a promising treatment approach for inducing immune tolerance, particularly for …

[HTML][HTML] Gadolinium-doped Au@ prussian blue nanoparticles as MR/SERS bimodal agents for dendritic cell activating and tracking

C Zhang, Z Xu, H Di, E Zeng, Y Jiang, D Liu - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In vivo tracking of dendritic cell (DC) migration to the lymphatic system is essential for
evaluating the outcome of DC-based immunotherapies. Novel multimodal imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Preclinical study of influenza bivalent vaccine delivered with a two compartmental microneedle array

HR Jeong, JY Bae, JH Park, SK Baek, G Kim… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple vaccines can be mixed into a single combination to be a single product. However,
combination vaccines have problems of complexity. In this study, microneedles were utilized …

An Ultrahigh‐Density Microneedle Array for Skin Vaccination: Inducing Epidermal Cell Death by Increasing Microneedle Density Enhances Total IgG and IgG1 …

JW Coffey, NMD van der Burg… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many types of microneedle (MN) arrays have been tested for delivery of vaccines to the skin.
However, the effect of MN geometry/array design on antibody production is still unclear …

[HTML][HTML] Skin codelivery of contact sensitizers and neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists integrated in microneedle arrays suppresses allergic contact dermatitis

M Bandyopadhyay, AE Morelli, SC Balmert… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Allergic contact dermatitis (CD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease caused
by type 1 biased adaptive immunity for which there is an unmet need for antigen (Ag) …