Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7115, Raleigh, NC 27695-7115, USA.
Faraday Discuss. 2011;149:171-85; discussion 227-45. doi: 10.1039/c005374k.
Due to their ability to serve as fluorophores and drug delivery vehicles, quantum dots are a powerful tool for theranostics-based clinical applications. In this study, microneedle devices for transdermal drug delivery were fabricated by means of two-photon polymerization of an acrylate-based polymer. We examined proliferation of cells on this polymer using neonatal human epidermal keratinocytes and human dermal fibroblasts. The microneedle device was used to inject quantum dots into porcine skin; imaging of the quantum dots was performed using multiphoton microscopy.
由于量子点能够作为荧光团和药物输送载体,因此它们是基于治疗学的临床应用的有力工具。在这项研究中,通过基于丙烯酰胺的聚合物的双光子聚合来制造用于经皮药物输送的微针装置。我们使用新生儿人表皮角质形成细胞和人真皮成纤维细胞来研究该聚合物上细胞的增殖。使用微针装置将量子点注入猪皮中;使用多光子显微镜对量子点进行成像。