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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2015

Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for biomedical applications.

Angela P Blum, Jacquelin K Kammeyer, Anthony M Rush, Cassandra E Callmann, Michael E Hahn, Nathan C Gianneschi

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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106citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

106 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Angela P BlumDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Jacquelin K Kammeyer
Anthony M Rush
Cassandra E Callmann
Michael E Hahn
Nathan C Gianneschi

Funding

Traning Clinical Scientists in Radiological ImagingT32EB005970 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Eric Y Chang, Rebecca Ann Rakow-Penner · 2007 to 2026
$3.2M
Programming Pharmacokinetics in Vivo via In Situ Switching of Nanoscale ParticleDP2OD008724 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GIANNESCHI, NATHAN CLAUDE · 2011 to 2011
$2.3M
Autonomously Assembling Nanomaterial Scaffolds for Treating Myocardial InfarctionR01HL117326 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI CHRISTMAN, KAREN L, GIANNESCHI, NATHAN CLAUDE · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
EDAPT: Enzyme-Directed Assembly of Particle TheranosticsR01EB011633 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HALL, DAVID J · 2011 to 2014
$1.3M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature employs a variety of tactics to precisely time and execute the processes and mechanics of life, relying on sequential sense and response cascades to transduce signaling events over multiple length and time scales. Many of these tactics, such as the activation of a zymogen, involve the direct manipulation of a material by a stimulus. Similarly, effective therapeutics and diagnostics require the selective and efficient homing of material to specific tissues and biomolecular targets with appropriate temporal resolution. These systems must also avoid undesirable or toxic side effects and evade unwanted removal by endogenous clearing mechanisms. Nanoscale delivery vehicles have been developed to package materials with the hope of delivering them to select locations with rates of accumulation and clearance governed by an interplay between the carrier and its cargo. Many modern approaches to drug delivery have taken inspiration from natural activatable materials like zymogens, membrane proteins, and metabolites, whereby stimuli initiate transformations that are required for cargo release, prodrug activation, or selective transport. This Perspective describes key advances in the field of stimuli-responsive nanomaterials while highlighting some of the many challenges faced and opportunities for development. Major hurdles include the increasing need for powerful new tools and strategies for characterizing the dynamics, morphology, and behavior of advanced delivery systems in situ and the perennial problem of identifying truly specific and useful physical or molecular biomarkers that allow a material to autonomously distinguish diseased from normal tissue.

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Biocompatible MaterialsNanostructuresBiocompatible Materials

Identifiers

PMID25474531
PMCPMC4353031

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