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An ingestible self-orienting system for oral delivery of macromolecules

2019; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 363; Issue: 6427 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.aau2277

1095-9203

Alex Abramson, Ester Caffarel–Salvador, Minsoo Khang, David Dellal, David M. Silverstein, Yuan Gao, Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen, Andreas Vegge, František Hubálek, Jorrit J. Water, Anders V. Friderichsen, Johannes Josef Fels, Rikke Kaae Kirk, Cody Cleveland, Joy Collins, Siddartha Tamang, Alison Hayward, Tomas Landh, Stephen T. Buckley, Niclas Roxhed, Ulrik L. Rahbek, Róbert Langer, Giovanni Traverso,

Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

Delivering fragile drugs to the gut Oral delivery is the simplest and least invasive way to deliver many pharmaceuticals, but many drugs and medications, including insulin, cannot survive passage through the stomach or the gastrointestinal tract. Abramson et al. developed an ingestible delivery vehicle that could self-reorient from any starting position so as to attach to the gastric wall. Encapsulation of a spring in a sugar casing allowed for triggered actuation for the delivery of biomolecules. The approach successfully provided active insulin delivery in pigs. Science , this issue p. 611