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ArticleCurrent opinion in chemical engineering2015

Overcoming transport barriers for interstitial-, lymphatic-, and lymph node-targeted drug delivery.

Susan N Thomas, Alex Schudel

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Article in Current opinion in chemical engineering, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Susan N ThomasGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA ; Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Alex SchudelParker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA ; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.

Funding

Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) RenewalUL1TR000454 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI STEPHENS, DAVID S · 2012 to 2016
$25.8M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000454
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite drug formulation improving circulation times and targeting, efficacy is stymied by inadequate penetration into and retention within target tissues. This review highlights the barriers restricting delivery to the connective tissue interstitium, lymphatics, and lymph nodes as well as advances in engineering drug carriers to overcome these delivery challenges. Three-dimensional tissue physiology is discussed in the context of providing material design principles for delivery to these tissues; in particular the influence of interstitial and lymphatic flows as well as differential permeabilities of the blood and lymphatic capillaries. Key examples of materials with different characteristics developed to overcome these transport barriers are discussed as well as potential areas for further development.

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drug deliveryinterstitiumlymphaticslymph node

Identifiers

PMID25745594
PMCPMC4345645

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