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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Activity of Amphotericin B-Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles against Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.

Alaa Riezk, Katrien Van Bocxlaer, Vanessa Yardley, Sudaxshina Murdan, Simon L Croft

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
10.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alaa RiezkDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1829-5770
Katrien Van BocxlaerDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
Vanessa YardleyDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
Sudaxshina MurdanDepartment of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, London WC1N 1AX, UK.
Simon L CroftDepartment of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
University of London · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chitosan nanoparticles have gained attention as drug delivery systems (DDS) in the medical field as they are both biodegradable and biocompatible with reported antimicrobial and anti-leishmanial activities. We investigated the application of chitosan nanoparticles as a DDS for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) by preparing two types of chitosan nanoparticles: positively charged with tripolyphosphate sodium (TPP) and negatively charged with dextran sulphate. Amphotericin B (AmB) was incorporated into these nanoparticles. Both types of AmB-loaded nanoparticles demonstrated in vitro activity against

Indexed as

Administration, TopicalAmphotericin BAnimalsAntiprotozoal AgentsChitosanDisease Models, AnimalDrug LiberationHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationLeishmania majorLeishmaniasis, CutaneousMice, Inbred BALB CNanoparticlesParasitesPermeabilitySkinAmphotericin BAntiprotozoal AgentsChitosanamphotericin Bchitosan nanoparticlescutaneous leishmaniasisin vivoLeishmania major

Identifiers

PMID32887341
PMCPMC7504813
OpenAlexW3082386395

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