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ArticleDrug delivery and translational research2019

Development of a thermostable microneedle patch for polio vaccination.

Chandana Kolluru, Yasmine Gomaa, Mark R Prausnitz

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Article in Drug delivery and translational research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Chandana KolluruSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Yasmine GomaaSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Mark R PrausnitzSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA. prausnitz@gatech.edu.
Georgia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Pilot Project ProgramP30ES019776 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Carmen Joseph Marsit · 2013 to 2026
$22.6M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES019776
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop a dissolving microneedle (MN) patch for administration of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) with improved thermal stability when compared with conventional liquid IPV. Excipient screening showed that a combination of maltodextrin and D-sorbitol in histidine buffer best preserved IPV activity during MN patch fabrication and storage. As determined by D-antigen ELISA, all three IPV serotypes maintained > 70% activity after 2 months and > 50% activity after 1-year storage at 5 °C or 25 °C with desiccant. Storage at 40 °C yielded > 40% activity after 2 months and > 20% activity after 1 year. In contrast, commercial liquid IPV types 1 and 2 lost essentially all activity within 1 month at 40 °C and IPV type 3 had < 40% activity. Residual moisture content in MN patches measured by thermogravimetric analysis was 1.2-6.5%, depending on storage conditions. Glass transition temperature measured by differential scanning calorimetry, structural changes measured by X-ray diffraction, and molecular interactions measured by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed changes in MN matrix properties, but they did not correlate with IPV activity changes during storage. We conclude that appropriately formulated MN patches can exhibit thermostability that could enable distribution of IPV with less reliance on cold chain storage.

Indexed as

Drug CompoundingDrug StabilityExcipientsHumansMicrotechnologyNeedlesPoliovirus Vaccine, InactivatedThermodynamicsTransdermal PatchExcipientsPoliovirus Vaccine, InactivatedDifferential scanning calorimetryDissolving microneedle patchInactivated polio vaccineThermogravimetric analysisThermostabilityX-ray diffraction

Identifiers

PMID30542944
PMCPMC6328527
OpenAlexW2904794025

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