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ArticleTheranostics2018

Drug Release from Phase-Changeable Nanodroplets Triggered by Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound.

Yang Cao, Yuli Chen, Tao Yu, Yuan Guo, Fengqiu Liu, Yuanzhi Yao, Pan Li, Dong Wang, Zhigang Wang, Yu Chen and 1 more

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Article in Theranostics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 234 citations in OpenAlex.

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19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yang CaoChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Yuli ChenChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Tao YuChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Yuan GuoChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Fengqiu LiuChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Yuanzhi YaoChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Pan LiChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Dong WangChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Zhigang WangChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Yu ChenState Key Lab of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China.
Haitao RanChongqing Key Laboratory of Ultrasound Molecular Imaging, Institute of ultrasound imaging, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, P. R. China.
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug LiberationPhase TransitionUltrasonicsAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsApoptosisCell Line, TumorEmulsionsFemaleHumansMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeNanoparticlesPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid CopolymerTissue DistributionTreatment OutcomeAntineoplastic AgentsEmulsionsPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid CopolymerLow-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU)Perfluorocarbon nanodropletsProgrammable drug releaseUltrasound imaging

Identifiers

PMID29507623
PMCPMC5835939
OpenAlexW2791935253

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