摘要：Transdermal drug delivery systems have overcome many limitations of other drug administration routes,such as injection pain and first-pass metabolism following oral route,although transdermal drug delivery systems are limited to drugs with low molecular ***,new emerging technology allowing high molecular weight drug delivery across the skin—known as‘microneedles’—has been developed,which creates microchannels that facilitate drug *** this report,drug-loaded degradable conic microneedles are modeled to characterize the degradation rate and drug release *** a lot of data are available for polylactic acid-co-glycolic acid(PLGA)degradation in the literature,PLGA of various molecular weights-as a biodegradable polymer in the polyester family-is used for modeling and verification of the drug delivery in *** main reaction occurring during polyester degradation is hydrolysis of steric bonds,leading to molecular weight *** acid produced in the degradation has a catalytic effect on the *** in water,acid and steric bond concentrations over time and for different radii of microneedles are *** solve the partial and ordinary differential equations simultaneously,finite difference and Runge–Kutta methods are employed,respectively,with the aid of *** of the polymer degradation rate with its molecular weight and molecular weight changes versus time are ***,drug diffusivity is related to matrix molecular *** molecular weight reduction and accumulative drug release within the system are *** order to validate and assess the proposed model,data series of the hydrolytic degradation of aspirin(180.16 Da)-and albumin(66,000 Da)-loaded PLGA(1:1 molar ratio)are used for *** proposed model is in good agreement with experimental data from the *** diffusion as themain phenomena and autocatalytic effects in the reaction,the drug release profile i