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ReviewBiomolecules2017

In Quest for Improved Drugs against Diabetes: The Added Value of X-ray Powder Diffraction Methods.

Fotini Karavassili, Alexandros Valmas, Stavroula Fili, Christos D Georgiou, Irene Margiolaki

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Review in Biomolecules, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fotini KaravassiliSection of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Department of Biology, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece. fkar@upatras.gr.
Alexandros ValmasSection of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Department of Biology, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece. valmas@upatras.gr.
Stavroula FiliSection of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Department of Biology, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece. filistavr@gmail.com.
Christos D GeorgiouSection of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Department of Biology, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece. c.georgiou@upatras.gr.
Irene MargiolakiSection of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Department of Biology, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece. imargiola@upatras.gr.
University of Patras · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human insulin (HI) is a well-characterized natural hormone which regulates glycose levels into the blood-stream and is widely used for diabetes treatment. Numerous studies have manifested that despite significant efforts devoted to structural characterization of this molecule and its complexes with organic compounds (ligands), there is still a rich diagram of phase transitions and novel crystalline forms to be discovered. Towards the improvement of drug delivery, identification of new insulin polymorphs from polycrystalline samples, simulating the commercially available drugs, is feasible today via macromolecular X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD). This approach has been developed, and is considered as a respectable method, which can be employed in biosciences for various purposes, such as observing phase transitions and characterizing bulk pharmaceuticals. An overview of the structural studies on human insulin complexes performed over the past decade employing both synchrotron and laboratory sources for XRPD measurements, is reported herein. This review aims to assemble all of the recent advances in the diabetes treatment field in terms of drug formulation, verifying in parallel the efficiency and applicability of protein XRPD for quick and accurate preliminary structural characterization in the large scale.

Indexed as

Diabetes MellitusHumansHypoglycemic AgentsInsulinPhenolsPowder DiffractionStructure-Activity RelationshipX-Ray DiffractionHypoglycemic AgentsInsulinPhenolscrystallographyinsulinphenolic derivativespowder diffraction

Identifiers

PMID28829407
PMCPMC5618244
OpenAlexW2735214714

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