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ArticleDrug delivery2019

Doxorubicin-loaded red blood cells reduced cardiac toxicity and preserved anticancer activity.

Alfredo Lucas, Dawn Lam, Pedro Cabrales

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Article in Drug delivery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Pharmacokinetic behaviors of soft nanoparticulate formulations of chemotherapeutics.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology · 2023
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  17. Drug transport by red blood cells.Frontiers in physiology · 2023
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  20. Nucleic Acid Delivery with Red-Blood-Cell-Based Carriers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alfredo Lucasa Department of Bioengineering , University of California , San Diego , CA , USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9439-735X
Dawn Lama Department of Bioengineering , University of California , San Diego , CA , USA.
Pedro Cabralesa Department of Bioengineering , University of California , San Diego , CA , USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8794-2839
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

PEGylated megahemoglobin for use as a red blood cell substituteR01HL138116 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CABRALES, PEDRO, KAUMAYA, PRAVIN T. P. · 2017 to 2020
$2.9M
Attenuating the Oxidative and Myocardial Side-Effects of Acellular HemoglobinR01HL126945 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CABRALES, PEDRO, PALMER, ANDRE FRANCIS · 2016 to 2019
$1.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126945NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL138116
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Doxorubicin (DOX) is one of the most widely used anticancer agents. DOX is known for inducing cardiotoxicity, resulting in the long-term development of heart failure. Intravascular delivery of DOX may benefit from the carriage by red blood cells (RBCs), as they can limit the systemic toxicity while delivering the DOX to the tumor. This study proposes a methodology for the synthesis of electrophoretically DOX-loaded red blood cells (RBC-DOX), as well as the assessment of its antitumorigenic effects in human colon cancer cells (HT-29), and in colon cancer xenograft models. In addition, healthy mice without tumors were dosed with RBC-DOX to assess cardiotoxicity via assessment of indexes of cardiac function after multiple doses of RBC-DOX. The HT-29 IC

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AnimalsAntibiotics, AntineoplasticCardiotoxicityColonic NeoplasmsDoxorubicinElectrophoresisErythrocytesFemaleHT29 CellsHumansInhibitory Concentration 50LiverLungMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeAntibiotics, AntineoplasticDoxorubicinbiomimeticdoxorubicinDrug deliveryred blood cell

Identifiers

PMID30929538
PMCPMC6450495
OpenAlexW2928990695

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