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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2005

Design and development of polymers for gene delivery.

Daniel W Pack, Allan S Hoffman, Suzie Pun, Patrick S Stayton

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 693 papers.

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693citing papers in PubMed
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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

693 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Preparation of Polymeric Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  7. Polymeric Gene Delivery at Sub-Stoichiometric N/P Ratios.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
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  8. DNA Nanostructures for siRNA Delivery.Bioconjugate chemistry · 2026
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  10. Self-Assembling Short Peptide Carriers for Gene Delivery.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  14. From Nanoparticle Design to Clinical Translation in Cancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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633 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel W PackDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Box C-3, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. dpack@uiuc.edu
Allan S Hoffman
Suzie Pun
Patrick S Stayton

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lack of safe and efficient gene-delivery methods is a limiting obstacle to human gene therapy. Synthetic gene-delivery agents, although safer than recombinant viruses, generally do not possess the required efficacy. In recent years, a variety of effective polymers have been designed specifically for gene delivery, and much has been learned about their structure-function relationships. With the growing understanding of polymer gene-delivery mechanisms and continued efforts of creative polymer chemists, it is likely that polymer-based gene-delivery systems will become an important tool for human gene therapy.

Indexed as

Gene Transfer TechniquesPolymersAnimalsCyclodextrinsDrug DesignGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsHumansImidazolesCyclodextrinsImidazolesPolymers

Identifiers

PMID16052241

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