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ArticleACS biomaterials science & engineering2017

Role of Nitric Oxide-Releasing Chitosan Oligosaccharides on Mucus Viscoelasticity.

Katelyn P Reighard, Camille Ehre, Zachary L Rushton, Mona Jasmine R Ahonen, David B Hill, Mark H Schoenfisch

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Article in ACS biomaterials science & engineering, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 27 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katelyn P ReighardDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 131 South Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Camille EhreMarsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Zachary L RushtonMarsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Mona Jasmine R AhonenDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 131 South Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
David B HillMarsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Mark H SchoenfischDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 131 South Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

The Biophysics of Mucus Hydration and Adhesion/CohesionP01HL108808 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PEDEN, DAVID B. · 2012 to 2021
$23.9M
Nitric oxide-releasing cystic fibrosis therapeuticsR21AI112029 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SCHOENFISCH, MARK H · 2015 to 2016
$404k
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL108808NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI112029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitric oxide (NO)-releasing chitosan oligosaccharides were modified with ester functional groups to examine how the mucoadhesive nature of the scaffold impacts the ability of NO to degrade mucins from human bronchial epithelial cell cultures and clinical sputum samples collected from patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Agarose gel electrophoresis experiments indicated that the mucoadhesive NO-releasing chitosan oligosaccharides degraded both the purified mucins and sputum, while control scaffolds (without NO release or mucoadhesive ligands) had no effect on mucin structure. Microscopic observations of sputum treated with the mucoadhesive NO-releasing chitosan oligosaccharide confirmed degradation of the mucin and DNA networks. Similarly, the viscosity and elasticity of sputum were reduced upon treatment with the mucoadhesive NO-releasing chitosan, demonstrating the potential utility of these NO-releasing scaffolds as mucolytic agents.

Indexed as

cystic fibrosismucinsmucolyticnitric oxide

Identifiers

PMID30320206
PMCPMC6178828
OpenAlexW2616299141

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