Drug-loaded textile fibers use physical and chemical processes such as absorption, coating, encapsulation, grafting or covalent conjugation, particularly for transdermal applications.
The future of drug delivery systems just might be textiles with this leap forward in the field, thanks to Empa researchers.Currently, drug delivery routes include injection, parenteral, oral, sublingual, inhalation, suppository, implant, or topical pathways. However, local delivery remains ideal as it evades the need for the drug to travel through the bloodstream which accounts for high dosages.
As stated in their recent study, “textiles for drug delivery” stands to revolutionize local drug delivery methods in the rapidly growing field of personalized medicine. And Empa’s melt-spun liquid-core filaments have advanced this new arena due to how they manufacture them.Textiles have a long history in medicine: wound dressings, synthetic graft substitutes, scaffolds for tissue repair and regenerations, and even face masks.
The liquid-core filaments developed by Empa achieve this goal due to a process called “melt spinning.” It enables several functionalities to exist in one fiber, as per their website.
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