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ReviewDrug discovery today2019

Recent advances in intraocular sustained-release drug delivery devices.

Yiqi Cao, Karen E Samy, Daniel A Bernards, Tejal A Desai

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Recent advances and future challenges in nanosystems for ocular drug delivery.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025
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  9. Magnetically Controllable and Degradable Milliscale Swimmers as Intraocular Drug Implants.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yiqi CaoUC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States.
Karen E SamyDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Daniel A BernardsDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Tejal A DesaiDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: tejal.desai@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in BIoengineeringT32GM008155 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DESAI, TEJAL A. · 1985 to 2020
$12.2M
Nanoporous Films for Ocular Drug DeliveryR01EY021574 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DESAI, TEJAL A. · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
Mechanisms of nanostructure-enhanced transepithelial drug deliveryR01EB018842 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DESAI, TEJAL A. · 2014 to 2017
$1.4M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY021574NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB018842NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008155
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Topical eye-drop administration and intravitreal injections are the current standard for ocular drug delivery. However, patient adherence to the drug regimen and insufficient administration frequency are well-documented challenges to this field. In this review, we describe recent advances in intraocular implants designed to deliver therapeutics for months to years, to obviate the issues of patient adherence. We highlight recent advances in monolithic ocular implants in the literature, the commercialization pipeline, and approved for the market. We also describe design considerations based on material selection, active pharmaceutical ingredient, and implantation site.

Indexed as

Delayed-Action PreparationsDrug Delivery SystemsDrug ImplantsEyeHumansOphthalmic SolutionsDelayed-Action PreparationsDrug ImplantsOphthalmic Solutions

Identifiers

PMID31173915
PMCPMC6708500
OpenAlexW2949014342

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