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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2017

Nanomaterial-Enabled Cancer Therapy.

Sabina Quader, Kazunori Kataoka

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sabina QuaderInnovation Center of Nanomedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, 3-25-14 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki 212-0821, Japan.
Kazunori KataokaInnovation Center of Nanomedicine, Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, 3-25-14 Tonomachi, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki 212-0821, Japan; Policy Alternatives Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-1709, Japan. Electronic address: k-kataoka@kawasaki-net.ne.jp.
Innovation Center of NanoMedicine · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While cancer remains the major cause of death worldwide, nanomaterial (NM)-based diagnosis and treatment modalities are showing remarkable potential to better tackle clinical oncology by effectively targeting therapeutic agents to tumors. NMs can selectively accumulate in solid tumors, and they can improve the bioavailability and reduce the toxicity of encapsulated cytotoxic agents. Additional noteworthy functions of NMs in cancer treatment include the delivery of contrast agents to image tumor sites, delivery of genetic materials for gene therapy, and co-delivery of multiple agents to achieve combination therapy or simultaneous diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes. Although several NM therapeutics have been successfully translated to clinical applications, the gap between the bench and the bedside remains ominously wide. Tumor heterogeneity and the disparity between pre-clinical and clinical studies have been identified as two of the major translational challenges of NM-based cancer therapies. Herein, we review a handful of recent research studies on the use of NMs in cancer therapy and imaging, with a limited discussion on the consequences of tumor heterogeneity and pre-clinical studies on translational research of NM-based delivery systems and propositions in the literature to overcome these challenges.

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Antineoplastic AgentsBiological AvailabilityCombined Modality TherapyDendrimersDrug ApprovalDrug Delivery SystemsGenetic TherapyHumansImmunoconjugatesLiposomesMicellesNanoparticlesNeoplasmsTheranostic NanomedicineTranslational Research, BiomedicalAntineoplastic AgentsDendrimersImmunoconjugatesLiposomesMicellescancerclinical translationcombination therapynanomaterialpolyplexpre-clinicaltherapytumor heterogeneity

Identifiers

PMID28532763
PMCPMC5498831
OpenAlexW2610702603

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