Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Amritsar, Punjab, India
Review Article
A Review on Recent Advancement in Material and Manufacturing Techniques of Microneedles and Their Clinical Development
Author(s): Kavita Bhagat*, Sachin Saggar, Anureet Kaur and Manmeet Kaur
A Microneedle (MNs) is an advanced technology in transdermal drug delivery system for effective and
efficient delivery of vaccines and therapeutic agents. It has many advantages over conventional
needles; it is non-invasive, provides painless insertion, avoid first pass metabolism etc. Microneedles
are designed and fabricated by using suitable materials like silicon, metals, polymers, ceramics, etc.
MNs are classified according to their mechanism of action; structure and their plane of symmetry etc.
Summary of the advancement made during recent years in the clinical translation were also
streamlined. This review article highlights an overview of micro needle systems, applications,
classification, material selection, manufacturing methods and clinical data of MNs. .. View More»