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ReviewAmerican journal of translational research2016

Systemic delivery to central nervous system by engineered PLGA nanoparticles.

Qiang Cai, Long Wang, Gang Deng, Junhui Liu, Qianxue Chen, Zhibiao Chen

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Review in American journal of translational research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qiang CaiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China.
Long WangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China.
Gang DengDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China.
Junhui LiuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China.
Qianxue ChenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China.
Zhibiao ChenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China.
Wuhan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurological disorders are an important global public health problem, but pharmaceutical treatments are limited due to drug access to the central nervous system being restricted by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles (NPs) are one of the most promising drug and gene delivery systems for crossing the BBB. While these systems offer great promise, PLGA NPs also have some intrinsic drawbacks and require further engineering for clinical and research applications. Multiple strategies have been developed for using PLGA NPs to deliver compounds across the BBB. We classify these strategies into three categories according to the adaptations made to the PLGA NPs (1) to facilitate travel from the injection site (pre-transcytosis strategies); (2) to enhance passage across the brain endothelial cells (BBB transcytosis strategies) and (3) to achieve targeting of the impaired nervous system cells (post-transcytosis strategies). PLGA NPs modified according to these three strategies are denoted first, second, and third generation NPs, respectively. We believe that fusing these three strategies to engineer multifunctional PLGA NPs is the only way to achieve translational applications.

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central nervous systemnanoparticlePLGAsystemic delivery

Identifiers

PMID27158367
PMCPMC4846924
OpenAlexW2349058069

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