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ReviewPharmaceutics2019

Advances of Non-Ionic Surfactant Vesicles (Niosomes) and Their Application in Drug Delivery.

Xuemei Ge, Minyan Wei, Suna He, Wei-En Yuan

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 164 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

164 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xuemei GeSchool of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China. gexuemei@njfu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5035-8877
Minyan WeiEngineering Research Center of Cell & Therapeutic Antibody, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. weiminyan@sjtu.edu.cn.
Suna HeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China. hesuna-2008@haust.edu.cn.
Wei-En YuanEngineering Research Center of Cell & Therapeutic Antibody, Ministry of Education, and School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. yuanweien@sjtu.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-Ionic surfactant based vesicles, also known as niosomes, have attracted much attention in pharmaceutical fields due to their excellent behavior in encapsulating both hydrophilic and hydrophobic agents. In recent years, it has been discovered that these vesicles can improve the bioavailability of drugs, and may function as a new strategy for delivering several typical of therapeutic agents, such as chemical drugs, protein drugs and gene materials with low toxicity and desired targeting efficiency. Compared with liposomes, niosomes are much more stable during the formulation process and storage. The required pharmacokinetic properties can be achieved by optimizing components or by surface modification. This novel delivery system is also easy to prepare and scale up with low production costs. In this paper, we summarize the structure, components, formulation methods, quality control of niosome and its applications in chemical drugs, protein drugs and gene delivery.

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carrierdrug deliveryniosomenon-ionic surfactantstability

Identifiers

PMID30700021
PMCPMC6410054

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