Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31778882›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2020

Innate immune responses triggered by nucleic acids inspire the design of immunomodulatory nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs).

Morgan Chandler, Morgan Brittany Johnson, Martin Panigaj, Kirill A Afonin

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Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 59 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Morgan ChandlerNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
Morgan Brittany JohnsonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
Martin PanigajInstitute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Kosice, 041 54, Slovak Republic.
Kirill A AfoninNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA; The Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA. Electronic address: kafonin@uncc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte · USUniversity of Pavol Jozef Šafárik · SK

Funding

Characterization of various multifunctional nucleic acid nanoparticles and understanding their immunotoxicityR01GM120487 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE · PI AFONIN, KIRILL A · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120487
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unknown immune stimulation by nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) has become one of the major impediments to a broad spectrum of clinical developments of this novel technology. Having evolved to defend against bacterial and viral nucleic acids, mammalian cells have established patterns of recognition that are also the pathways through which NANPs can be processed. Explorations into the immune stimulation brought about by a vast diversity of known NANPs have shown that variations in design correlate with variations in immune response. Therefore, as the mechanisms of stimulation are further elucidated, these trends are now being taken into account in the design phase to allow for development of NANPs that are tailored for controlled immune activation or quiescence.

Indexed as

NanoparticlesNucleic AcidsAnimalsImmunity, InnateNucleic Acids

Identifiers

PMID31778882
PMCPMC7246180
OpenAlexW2990962397

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