Sustained drug delivery system
AssigneeTohoku University
InventorsToshiaki ABE, Nobuhiro NAGAI, Hirokazu KAJI, Takeaki KAWASHIMA, Matsuhiko NISHIZAWA, Koji NISHIDA
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Abstract
A drug delivery system for delivering a drug at a sustained constant rate for a long period, which can be transplanted into an affected part safely and in a simple manner and can deliver a drug to the affected part for a long period. A sustained drug delivery system in which an implant is implanted into a body, wherein the implant is a PEG capsule comprising a box-shaped PEG and a porous PEG sheet.
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A drug slow-releasing implant, wherein the implant is a PEG capsule internally comprising a PEG pellet in which a therapeutic drug is embedded without collagen, wherein the PEG capsule is capped with a PEG sheet and the therapeutic drug is a low molecular weight drug and released through the PEG sheet.
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