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ReviewJournal of materials chemistry. B2020

Design of nanomaterials for applications in maternal/fetal medicine.

N'Dea S Irvin-Choy, Katherine M Nelson, Jason P Gleghorn, Emily S Day

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Review in Journal of materials chemistry. B, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Therapeutic nanoparticle safety in pregnancy: Bridging knowledge gaps with environmental insights and a translational roadmap.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025
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  12. Nanoparticles ofPharmaceutics · 2023
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  20. Delivery technologies for in utero gene therapy.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2021
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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.

N'Dea S Irvin-ChoyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. emilyday@udel.edu.
Katherine M Nelson
Jason P Gleghorn
Emily S Day

Funding

CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE PREDOCTORAL TRAININGT32GM008550 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI BAHNSON, BRIAN J · 1994 to 2018
$5.0M
Mechanisms of sex differences in neonatal pulmonary oxygen toxicityR01HL144775 · NHLBI · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI LINGAPPAN, KRITHIKA · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
Maximizing the delivery and efficacy of miRNA therapeutics through nanocarrier designR35GM119659 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI DAY, EMILY S · 2016 to 2020
$2.0M
Mechanical Control of Cell Proliferation and Branching Morphogenesis in the Embryonic LungR01HL145147 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS · PI VARNER, VICTOR D. · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
Pressure in lung development and congenital diaphragmatic herniaR01HL133163 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI GLEGHORN, JASON PAUL · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL133163NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL144775NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145147NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119659NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008550
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pregnancy complications are commonplace and the challenges of treatment during pregnancy with few options available pose a risk to the health of both the mother and baby. Patients suffering from conditions such as preeclampsia, placenta accreta, and intrauterine growth restriction have few treatment options apart from emergency caesarean section. Fortunately, researchers are beginning to develop nanomedicine-based therapies that could be utilized to treat conditions affecting the mother, placenta, or fetus to improve the prognosis for mothers and their unborn children. This review summarizes the field's current understanding of nanoparticle biodistribution and therapeutic effect following systemic or vaginal administration and overviews the design parameters researchers should consider when developing nanomedicines for maternal/fetal health. It also describes safety considerations for nanomedicines to limit undesirable maternal or fetal side effects and discusses future work that should be performed to advance nanomedicine for maternal/fetal health. With additional development and implementation, the application of nanomedicine to treat pregnancy complications may mitigate the need for emergency caesarean sections and allow pregnancies to extend to term.

Indexed as

Biocompatible MaterialsDrug DesignFetusMothersNanostructuresFemaleHumansNanomedicineBiocompatible Materials

Identifiers

PMID32452510
PMCPMC7429305

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