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ReviewNucleic acid therapeutics2011

Polymers in small-interfering RNA delivery.

Kaushik Singha, Ran Namgung, Won Jong Kim

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Review in Nucleic acid therapeutics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

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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

90 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Research progress on non-protein-targeted drugs for cancer therapy.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2023
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  20. Engineering poly- and micelleplexes for nucleic acid delivery - A reflection on their endosomal escape.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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30 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

3 authors.

Kaushik SinghaDepartment of Chemistry, BK School of Molecular Science, Polymer Research Institute, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea.
Ran Namgung
Won Jong Kim

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review will cover the current strategies that are being adopted to efficiently deliver small interfering RNA using nonviral vectors, including the use of polymers such as polyethylenimine, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), polypeptides, chitosan, cyclodextrin, dendrimers, and polymers-containing different nanoparticles. The article will provide a brief and concise account of underlying principle of these polymeric vectors and their structural and functional modifications which were intended to serve different purposes to affect efficient therapeutic outcome of small-interfering RNA delivery. The modifications of these polymeric vectors will be discussed with reference to stimuli-responsiveness, target specific delivery, and incorporation of nanoconstructs such as carbon nanotubes, gold nanoparticles, and silica nanoparticles. The emergence of small-interfering RNA as the potential therapeutic agent and its mode of action will also be mentioned in a nutshell.

Indexed as

CelluloseChitosanCyclodextrinsDendrimersGene SilencingGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansLactic AcidNanoparticlesNanotubes, CarbonPeptidesPolyethyleneiminePolyglycolic AcidPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid CopolymerPolymersCelluloseChitosancyclodextrin polymerCyclodextrinsDendrimersLactic AcidNanotubes, CarbonPeptidesPolyethyleneiminePolyglycolic AcidPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid CopolymerPolymersRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID21749290
PMCPMC3198620

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