Pollard, Thomas D;
Bonetti, Margherita;
Day, Adam;
Gaisford, Simon;
Orlu, Mine;
Basit, Abdul W;
Murdan, Sudaxshina;
(2022)
Printing Drugs onto Nails for Effective Treatment of Onychomycosis.
Pharmaceutics
, 14
(2)
, Article 448. 10.3390/pharmaceutics14020448.
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Abstract
Inkjet printing (IJP) is an emerging technology for the precision dosing of medicines. We report, for the first time, the printing of the antifungal drug terbinafine hydrochloride directly onto nails for the treatment of onychomycosis. A commercial cosmetic nail printer was modified by removing the ink from the cartridge and replacing it with an in-house prepared drug-loaded ink. The drug-loaded ink was designed so that it was comparable to the commercial ink for key printability properties. Linear drug dosing was shown by changing the lightness of the colour selected for printing (R2 = 0.977) and by printing multiple times (R2 = 0.989). The drug loads were measured for heart (271 µg), world (205 µg) and football (133 µg) shapes. A disc diffusion assay against Trpytophan rubrum showed inhibition of fungal growth with printed-on discs. In vitro testing with human nails showed substantial inhibition with printed-on nails. Hence, this is the first study to demonstrate the ability of a nail printer for drug delivery, thereby confirming its potential for onychomycosis treatment.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Printing Drugs onto Nails for Effective Treatment of Onychomycosis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/pharmaceutics14020448 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14020448 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Point-of-care; onychomycosis; inkjet printing; personalized healthcare; antifungal treatment; pharmaceutical 2D printing; desktop printing; printed drug products; precision pharmaceuticals |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Pharmaceutics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144253 |
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