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ArticleJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2012

Challenges and opportunities in the advancement of nanomedicines.

Alexander Wei, Jonathan G Mehtala, Anil K Patri

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Article in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 106 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander WeiDepartment of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. alexwei@purdue.edu
Jonathan G Mehtala
Anil K Patri
Purdue University West Lafayette · USFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · US

Funding

Investigating Tumor Growth Dynamics Using Multimodal Contrast Agents and OpticalRC1CA147096 · NCI · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI WEI, ALEXANDER · 2009 to 2010
$999k
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENCI NIH HHS RC1 CA-147096NCI NIH HHS RC1 CA147096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanomedicine-based approaches to cancer treatment face several challenges that differ from those encountered by conventional medicines during clinical development. A systematic exploration of these issues has led us to identify the following needs and opportunities for further development: (1) robust and general methods for the accurate characterization of nanoparticle size, shape, and composition; (2) scalable approaches for producing nanomedicines with optimized bioavailability and excretion profiles; (3) particle engineering for maintaining low levels of nonspecific cytotoxicity and sufficient stability during storage; (4) optimization of surface chemistries for maximum targeted delivery and minimum nonspecific adsorption; (5) practical methods for quantifying ligand density and distributions on multivalent nanocarriers; and (6) the design of multifunctional nanomedicines for novel combination therapies with supportable levels of bioaccumulation.

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AdsorptionAnimalsDrug CarriersHumansNanomedicineNanoparticlesDrug Carriers

Identifiers

PMID23064314
PMCPMC3504169
OpenAlexW2074544441

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