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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2020

Polymer nanomedicines.

Jindřich Kopeček, Jiyuan Yang

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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 53 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
53citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 125 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jindřich KopečekDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Electronic address: jindrich.kopecek@utah.edu.
Jiyuan YangDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
University of Utah · US

Funding

Drug-Free Macromolecular TherapeuticsR01GM095606 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KOPECEK, JINDRICH H. · 2011 to 2018
$2.3M
Drug-Free Macromolecular TherapeuticsR01CA246716 · NCI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI JINDRICH H. KOPECEK, JIYUAN YANG · 2020 to 2026
$2.1M
Backbone Degradable Polymer-drug Conjugates for the Treatment of Ovarian CancerR42CA156933 · NCI · THERATARGET · PI KOPECEK, JINDRICH H. · 2014 to 2015
$995k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA246716NCI NIH HHS R42 CA156933NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymer nanomedicines (macromolecular therapeutics, polymer-drug conjugates, drug-free macromolecular therapeutics) are a group of biologically active compounds that are characterized by their large molecular weight. This review focuses on bioconjugates of water-soluble macromolecules with low molecular weight drugs and selected proteins. After analyzing the design principles, different structures of polymer carriers are discussed followed by the examination of the efficacy of the conjugates in animal models and challenges for their translation into the clinic. Two innovative directions in macromolecular therapeutics that depend on receptor crosslinking are highlighted: a) Combination chemotherapy of backbone degradable polymer-drug conjugates with immune checkpoint blockade by multivalent polymer peptide antagonists; and b) Drug-free macromolecular therapeutics, a new paradigm in drug delivery.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsHumansNanomedicinePolymersPolymersCancerCheckpoint inhibitionDrug-free macromolecular therapeuticsMacromolecular therapeuticsMultivalent polymer peptide antagonistsNanomedicinePolymer-drug conjugatesPolymeric nanomedicines

Identifiers

PMID32735811
PMCPMC7736172
OpenAlexW4206014618

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Registered trials

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