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ReviewTheranostics2018

Recent Advances in the Application of Vitamin E TPGS for Drug Delivery.

Conglian Yang, Tingting Wu, Yan Qi, Zhiping Zhang

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Review in Theranostics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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130citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

130 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 380 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Conglian YangTongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, P.R. China.
Tingting WuTongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, P.R. China.
Yan QiTongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, P.R. China.
Zhiping ZhangTongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, P.R. China.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

D-ɑ-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate (Vitamin E TPGS or TPGS) has been approved by FDA as a safe adjuvant and widely used in drug delivery systems. The biological and physicochemical properties of TPGS provide multiple advantages for its applications in drug delivery like high biocompatibility, enhancement of drug solubility, improvement of drug permeation and selective antitumor activity. Notably, TPGS can inhibit the activity of ATP dependent P-glycoprotein and act as a potent excipient for overcoming multi-drug resistance (MDR) in tumor. In this review, we aim to discuss the recent advances of TPGS in drug delivery including TPGS based prodrugs, nitric oxide donor and polymers, and unmodified TPGS based formulations. These potential applications are focused on enhancing delivery efficiency as well as the therapeutic effect of agents, especially on overcoming MDR of tumors. It also demonstrates that the clinical translation of TPGS based nanomedicines is still faced with many challenges, which requires more detailed study on TPGS properties and based delivery system in the future.

Indexed as

AnimalsDrug Delivery SystemsDrug Resistance, MultipleHumansNanomedicineSolubilityVitamin EtocophersolanVitamin Eanticancer.drug deliverymulti-drug resistanceTPGSVitamin E

Identifiers

PMID29290821
PMCPMC5743561
OpenAlexW2768413943

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