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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics to the Airways-From Bench to Bedside.

Yingshan Qiu, Jenny K W Lam, Susan W S Leung, Wanling Liang

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Target, silence, replace: a review on RNA-based drugs in modern medicine.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  9. Targeting and monitoring ovarian cancer invasion with an RNAi and peptide delivery system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  17. Can pulmonary RNA delivery improve our pandemic preparedness?Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yingshan QiuDepartment of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. qiuysh@hku.hk.
Jenny K W LamDepartment of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. jkwlam@hku.hk.
Susan W S LeungDepartment of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. swsleung@hku.hk.
Wanling LiangDepartment of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. swll@hku.hk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) is a potent and specific post-transcriptional gene silencing process. Since its discovery, tremendous efforts have been made to translate RNAi technology into therapeutic applications for the treatment of different human diseases including respiratory diseases, by manipulating the expression of disease-associated gene(s). Similar to other nucleic acid-based therapeutics, the major hurdle of RNAi therapy is delivery. Pulmonary delivery is a promising approach of delivering RNAi therapeutics directly to the airways for treating local conditions and minimizing systemic side effects. It is a non-invasive route of administration that is generally well accepted by patients. However, pulmonary drug delivery is a challenge as the lungs pose a series of anatomical, physiological and immunological barriers to drug delivery. Understanding these barriers is essential for the development an effective RNA delivery system. In this review, the different barriers to pulmonary drug delivery are introduced. The potential of RNAi molecules as new class of therapeutics, and the latest preclinical and clinical studies of using RNAi therapeutics in different respiratory conditions are discussed in details. We hope this review can provide some useful insights for moving inhaled RNAi therapeutics from bench to bedside.

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inhalationmicroRNA (miRNA)pulmonary deliveryrespiratory diseasesRNA interferenceshort hairpin RNA (shRNA)short interfering RNA (siRNA)

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PMID27657028
PMCPMC6272875

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