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ArticlePharmaceutics2018

Gold Nanoparticles for Targeting Varlitinib to Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells.

Sílvia Castro Coelho, Daniel Pires Reis, Maria Carmo Pereira, Manuel A N Coelho

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Advances and Prospects in the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer.International journal of nanomedicine · 2023
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  12. Theranostic nanoparticles for detection and treatment of pancreatic cancer.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology
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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.

Sílvia Castro CoelhoLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. silvia.coelho@fe.up.pt.
Daniel Pires ReisLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. reis.danielp@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2872-9875
Maria Carmo PereiraLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. mcsp@fe.up.pt.
Manuel A N CoelhoLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. mcoelho@fe.up.pt.

Funding

Tissue CoreP50CA127297 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI HOLLINGSWORTH, MICHAEL A. · 2008 to 2018
$17.1M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA127297
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colloidal gold nanoparticles are targeting probes to improve varlitinib delivery into cancer cells. The nanoconjugates were designed by the bioconjugation of pegylated gold nanoparticles with varlitinib via carbodiimide-mediated cross-linking and characterized by infrared and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The drug release response shows an initial delay and a complete drug release after 72 h is detected. In vitro experiments with MIA PaCa-2 cells corroborate that PEGAuNPsVarl conjugates increase the varlitinib toxic effect at very low concentrations (IC50 = 80 nM) if compared with varlitinib alone (IC50 = 259 nM). Our results acknowledge a decrease of drug side effects in normal cells and an enhancement of drug efficacy against to the pancreatic cancer cells reported.

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gold nanoparticlespancreatic cellstyrosine conjugation

Identifiers

PMID30002279
PMCPMC6161021

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