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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2020

Anticancer activities of phytoconstituents and their liposomal targeting strategies against tumor cells and the microenvironment.

Jing Zhang, Xiang Li, Leaf Huang

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jing ZhangKey Laboratory of Modern Preparation of TCM, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, Jiangxi, China.
Xiang LiKey Laboratory of Modern Preparation of TCM, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang 330004, Jiangxi, China.
Leaf HuangDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. Electronic address: leafh@email.unc.edu.
Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Small Animal Imaging CoreU54CA198999 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HUANG, LEAF, TEPPER, JOEL E · 2015 to 2019
$11.9M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA198999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Various bioactive ingredients have been extracted from Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) that affect tumor progression and metastasis. To further understand the mechanisms of CHMs in cancer therapy, this article summarizes the effects of five categories of CHMs and their active ingredients on tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment. Despite their treatment potential, the undesirable physicochemical properties (poor permeability, instability, high hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity, toxicity) and unwanted pharmacokinetic profiles (short half-life in blood and low bioavailability) restrict clinical studies of CHMs. Therefore, development of liposomes through relevant surface modifying techniques to achieve targeted CHM delivery for cancer cells, i.e., extracellular and intracellular targets and targets in tumor microenvironment or vasculature, have been reviewed. Current challenges of liposomal targeting of these phytoconstituents and future perspective of CHM applications are discussed to provide an informative reference for interested readers.

Indexed as

PhytotherapyAnimalsAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicDrugs, Chinese HerbalHumansLiposomesMedicine, Chinese TraditionalNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicDrugs, Chinese HerbalLiposomesAnti-tumor effectChinese herbal medicinesLiposomesTargeting strategiesTumor microenvironment

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PMID32473991
PMCPMC7704676
OpenAlexW3031432703

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