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Nanoscale architectural tuning of parylene patch devices to control therapeutic release rates

Erik Pierstorff1,3, Robert Lam1 and Dean Ho1,2,3

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The advent of therapeutic functionalized implant coatings has significantly impacted the medical device field by enabling prolonged device functionality for enhanced patient treatment. Incorporation of drug release from a stable, biocompatible surface is instrumental in decreasing systemic application of toxic therapeutics and increasing the lifespan of implants by the incorporation of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories. In this study, we have developed a parylene C-based device for controlled release of Doxorubicin, an anti-cancer chemotherapy and definitive read-out for preserved drug functionality, and further characterized the parylene deposition condition-dependent tunability of drug release. Drug release is controlled by the deposition of a layer of 20–200 nm thick parylene over the drug layer. This places a porous layer above the Doxorubicin, limiting drug elution based on drug accessibility to solvent and the solvent used. An increase in the thickness of the porous top layer prolongs the elution of active drug from the device from, in the conditions tested, the order of 10 min to the order of 2 d in water and from the order of 10 min to no elution in PBS. Thus, the controlled release of an anti-cancer therapeutic has been achieved via scalably fabricated, parylene C-encapsulated drug delivery devices.


PACS

87.85.Qr Nanotechnologies-design

87.80.-y Biophysical techniques (research methods)

87.85.J- Biomaterials

87.19.X- Diseases

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Medical physics

Biological physics

Dates

Issue 44 (5 November 2008)

Received 16 July 2008, in final form 1 September 2008

Published 2 October 2008



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