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ArticleDrug delivery and translational research2012

Delivering drugs to the central nervous system: an overview.

Patricia I Dickson

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Article in Drug delivery and translational research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patricia I DicksonDivision of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W. Carson Street, HH1, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA, pdickson@labiomed.org.
The Lundquist Institute · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing therapies for the brain is perhaps the greatest challenge facing modern medicine today. While a great many potential therapies show promise in animal models, precious few make it to approval or are even studied in human patients. The particular challenges to the translation of neurotherapeutics to the clinic are many, but a major barrier is difficulty in delivering therapeutics into the brain. The goal of this workshop was to present ways to deliver therapeutics to the brain, including the limitations of each method, and describe ways to track their delivery, safety, and efficacy. Solving the problem of delivery will aid translation of therapeutics for patients suffering from neurodegeneration and other disorders of the brain.

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PMID25786863
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