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ReviewInternational journal of ophthalmology2018

Nanotechnology in retinal drug delivery.

Sibo Jiang, Yesenia L Franco, Yan Zhou, Jianjun Chen

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Review in International journal of ophthalmology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Nanotherapy for Neural Retinal Regeneration.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  12. Experimental and mathematical approaches for drug delivery for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sibo JiangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.
Yesenia L FrancoDepartment of Pharmaceutics, University of Florida, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.
Yan ZhouDepartment of Pharmaceutics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Jianjun ChenSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong Province, China.
University of Florida · USSouthern Medical University · CNUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy (DR) are the leading causes of blindness in adults over the age of 50 years in the US. While most of those conditions do not have a cure, currently available treatment options attempt to prevent further vision loss. For many ophthalmic drugs, an efficient delivery system to provide maximum therapeutic efficacy and promote patient compliance remains an unmet medical need. An exploration of literature

Indexed as

age-related macular degenerationdiabetic retinopathydrug deliverynanoparticlenanotechnologyretina

Identifiers

PMID29977820
PMCPMC6010371
OpenAlexW2890882648

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Registered trials

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