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ReviewAmerican journal of respiratory medicine : drugs, devices, and other interventions2002

Delivery systems for pulmonary gene therapy.

Ajay Gautam, Clifford J Waldrep, Charles L Densmore

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Review in American journal of respiratory medicine : drugs, devices, and other interventions, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Progress in Respiratory Gene Therapy.Human gene therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ajay GautamDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Clifford J Waldrep
Charles L Densmore
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delivery of therapeutic genes to the lungs is an attractive strategy to correct a variety of pulmonary dysfunctions such as cystic fibrosis, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, pulmonary hypertension, asthma, and lung cancer. Different delivery routes such as intratracheal instillation, aerosol and intravenous injection have been utilized with varying degrees of efficiency. Both viral and non-viral vectors, with their respective strengths and weaknesses, have achieved significant levels of transgene expression in the lungs. However, the application of gene therapy for the treatment of pulmonary disease has been handicapped by various barriers to the delivery vectors such as serum proteins during intravenous delivery, and surfactant proteins and mucus in the airway lumen during topical application of therapeutic genes. Immune and cytokine responses against the delivery vehicle are also major problems encountered in pulmonary gene therapy. Despite these shortcomings much progress has been made to enhance the efficiency, as well as lower the toxicity of gene therapy vehicles in the treatment of pulmonary disorders such as cystic fibrosis, lung cancer and asthma.

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHumansLiposomesLung DiseasesPolymersTransfectionVirusesLiposomesPolymers

Identifiers

PMID14720074
PMCPMC7102356
OpenAlexW2082925797

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