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ReviewNanoscale2014

Enzyme-responsive nanomaterials for controlled drug delivery.

Quanyin Hu, Prateek S Katti, Zhen Gu

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Review in Nanoscale, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 184 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
184citing papers in PubMed
14.7field-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

184 citing papers in PubMed, 603 citations in OpenAlex.

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124 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 1 country.

Quanyin HuJoint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. zgu@email.unc.edu zgu3@ncsu.edu.
Prateek S Katti
Zhen Gu
North Carolina State University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

North Carolina Translational & Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)UL1TR001111 · NCATS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BUSE, JOHN BERNARD, CAREY, TIMOTHY S · 2013 to 2017
$43.9M
MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008719 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DARVILLE, TONI, DESHMUKH, MOHANISH P · 1999 to 2023
$15.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001111NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008719
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymes underpin physiological function and exhibit dysregulation in many disease-associated microenvironments and aberrant cell processes. Exploiting altered enzyme activity and expression for diagnostics, drug targeting, and drug release is tremendously promising. When combined with booming research in nanobiotechnology, enzyme-responsive nanomaterials used for controlled drug release have achieved significant development and have been studied as an important class of drug delivery strategies in nanomedicine. In this review, we describe enzymes such as proteases, phospholipases and oxidoreductases that serve as delivery triggers. Subsequently, we explore recently developed enzyme-responsive nanomaterials with versatile applications for extracellular and intracellular drug delivery. We conclude by discussing future opportunities and challenges in this area.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsApoptosisBiotechnologyEnzymesHumansInorganic ChemicalsLiposomesMetal NanoparticlesMiceNanostructuresNanotechnologyOxidoreductasesPeptide HydrolasesPhospholipasesEnzymesInorganic ChemicalsLiposomesOxidoreductasesPeptide HydrolasesPhospholipases

Identifiers

PMID25251024
PMCPMC4425417
OpenAlexW2146536848

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.