Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30082647›Full record

ReviewPharmaceutics2018

Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles: A Comprehensive Review on Synthesis and Recent Advances.

Reema Narayan, Usha Y Nayak, Ashok M Raichur, Sanjay Garg

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 278 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
278citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
33.9field-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

278 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 881 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
    Review
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. mSiORSC advances · 2026
    Article
  11. Review
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Review
  20. Review

218 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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Reema NarayanDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India. nsreema@gmail.com.
Usha Y NayakDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences,Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India. usha.nayak@manipal.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1995-3114
Ashok M RaichurDepartment of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India. amr@iisc.ac.in.
Sanjay GargSchool of Pharmacy and Medical Science, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. Sanjay.Garg@unisa.edu.au.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education · INIndian Institute of Science Bangalore · INUniversity of South Australia · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advancements in drug delivery technologies utilizing a variety of carriers have resulted in a path-breaking revolution in the approach towards diagnosis and therapy alike in the current times. Need for materials with high thermal, chemical and mechanical properties have led to the development of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs). These ordered porous materials have garnered immense attention as drug carriers owing to their distinctive features over the others. They can be synthesized using a relatively simple process, thus making it cost effective. Moreover, by controlling the parameters during the synthesis; the morphology, pore size and volume and particle size can be transformed accordingly. Over the last few years, a rapid increase in research on MSNs as drug carriers for the treatment of various diseases has been observed indicating its potential benefits in drug delivery. Their widespread application for the loading of small molecules as well as macromolecules such as proteins, siRNA and so forth, has made it a versatile carrier. In the recent times, researchers have sorted to several modifications in the framework of MSNs to explore its potential in drug resistant chemotherapy, antimicrobial therapy. In this review, we have discussed the synthesis of these multitalented nanoparticles and the factors influencing the size and morphology of this wonder carrier. The second part of this review emphasizes on the applications and the advances made in the MSNs to broaden the spectrum of its use especially in the field of biomedicine. We have also touched upon the lacunae in the thorough understanding of its interaction with a biological system which poses a major hurdle in the passage of this carrier to the clinical level. In the final part of this review, we have discussed some of the major patents filed in the field of MSNs for therapeutic purpose.

Indexed as

MCM-41mesoporous silica nanoparticlesprotocellsSBA-15Stober’s synthesistetraethyl orthosilicate

Identifiers

PMID30082647
PMCPMC6160987
OpenAlexW2885814196

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.