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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2015

In vivo delivery of miRNAs for cancer therapy: challenges and strategies.

Yunching Chen, Dong-Yu Gao, Leaf Huang

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 342 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
342citing papers in PubMed
13.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

342 citing papers in PubMed, 664 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Chemotherapy Supports Cancer Cell Dissemination in a Melanoma Preclinical Model.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026
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  11. LncRNAs signatures in gynecological cancers: ovarian and endometrial cancers.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  14. Challenges and Perspectives in ncRNA Research.Experientia supplementum (2012) · 2026
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282 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 at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Yunching ChenInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC. Electronic address: yunching@mx.nthu.edu.tw.
Dong-Yu GaoInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC.
Leaf HuangDivision of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
National Tsing Hua University · TWUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Translational Nanosystems for Improved Lung Cancer Treatment with Small MoleculesU54CA151652 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HAROON, ZISHAN A, TEPPER, JOEL E · 2010 to 2014
$12.1M
Nanoscale Metal-organic Frameworks for Imaging and Therapy of Pancreatic CancerU01CA151455 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIN, WENBIN, YEH, JEN JEN · 2010 to 2014
$2.1M
Novel nanoparticles for siRNA deliveryR01CA149363 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HUANG, LEAF · 2010 to 2014
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS CA149363NCI NIH HHS CA151455NCI NIH HHS CA151652NCI NIH HHS R01 CA149363NCI NIH HHS U01 CA151455NCI NIH HHS U54 CA151652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs), small non-coding RNAs, can regulate post-transcriptional gene expressions and silence a broad set of target genes. miRNAs, aberrantly expressed in cancer cells, play an important role in modulating gene expressions, thereby regulating downstream signaling pathways and affecting cancer formation and progression. Oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes regulated by miRNAs mediate cell cycle progression, metabolism, cell death, angiogenesis, metastasis and immunosuppression in cancer. Recently, miRNAs have emerged as therapeutic targets or tools and biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy monitoring in cancer. Since miRNAs can regulate multiple cancer-related genes simultaneously, using miRNAs as a therapeutic approach plays an important role in cancer therapy. However, one of the major challenges of miRNA-based cancer therapy is to achieve specific, efficient and safe systemic delivery of therapeutic miRNAs in vivo. This review discusses the key challenges to the development of the carriers for miRNA-based therapy and explores current strategies to systemically deliver miRNAs to cancer without induction of toxicity.

Indexed as

Gene Transfer TechniquesAnimalsDisease ProgressionGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene SilencingHumansMicroRNAsNeoplasmsRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalSignal TransductionMicroRNAsCancer therapyGene deliveryIn vivo deliverymiRNANanotechnology

Identifiers

PMID24859533
PMCPMC5009470
OpenAlexW2028777474

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