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ReviewTrends in molecular medicine2010

Small-molecule delivery by nanoparticles for anticancer therapy.

Zhuo Georgia Chen

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Review in Trends in molecular medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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63citing 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

63 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. Targeted gene delivery systems for T-cell engineering.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2024
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3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Zhuo Georgia ChenDepartment of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine and Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA. gzchen@emory.edu

Funding

Tissue and Animal UseU54CA119338 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI NIE, SHUMING · 2005 to 2009
$18.4M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA119338NCI NIH HHS U54 CA U54CA119338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using nanoparticles for the delivery of small molecules in anticancer therapy is a rapidly growing area of research. The advantages of using nanoparticles for drug delivery include enhanced water solubility, tumor-specific accumulation and improved antitumor efficacy, while reducing nonspecific toxicity. Current research in this field focuses on understanding precisely how small molecules are released from nanoparticles and delivered to the targeted tumor tissues or cells, and how the unique biodistribution of the drug-carrying nanoparticles limits toxicity in major organs. Here, we discuss existing nanoparticles for the delivery of small-molecule anticancer agents and recent advances in this field.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsDrug Delivery SystemsHumansNanoparticlesNanotechnologyNeoplasmsAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID20846905
PMCPMC3729441

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