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Nanopharmaceuticals for Eye Administration: Sterilization, Depyrogenation and Clinical Applications.

Aleksandra Zielińska, Beatriz B Soles, Ana R Lopes, Beatriz F Vaz, Camila M Rodrigues, Thais F R Alves, Dorota Klensporf-Pawlik, Alessandra Durazzo, Massimo Lucarini, Patricia Severino and 3 more

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Review in Biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

13 authors.

Aleksandra ZielińskaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-2603-1377
Beatriz B SolesDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.
Ana R LopesDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.
Beatriz F VazDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.
Camila M RodriguesDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4725-1897
Thais F R AlvesLaboratory of Biomaterial and Nanotechnology (LaBNUS). University of Sorocaba, Raposo Tavares 92.5, Sorocaba, 18078-005 São Paulo, Brazil.
Dorota Klensporf-PawlikInstitute of Quality Science, Poznań University of Economics and Business, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland.
Alessandra DurazzoCREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7747-9107
Massimo LucariniCREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy.
Patricia SeverinoCenter for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women& Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6527-6612
Antonello SantiniDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Napoli Federico II, 80131 Napoli, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5505-3327
Marco V ChaudLaboratory of Biomaterial and Nanotechnology (LaBNUS). University of Sorocaba, Raposo Tavares 92.5, Sorocaba, 18078-005 São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-3618-8415
Eliana B SoutoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As an immune-privileged target organ, the eyes have important superficial and internal barriers, protecting them from physical and chemical damage from exogenous and/or endogenous origins that would cause injury to visual acuity or even vision loss. These anatomic, physiological and histologic barriers are thus a challenge for drug access and entry into the eye. Novel therapeutic concepts are highly desirable for eye treatment. The design of an efficient ocular drug delivery system still remains a challenge. Although nanotechnology may offer the ability to detect and treat eye diseases, successful treatment approaches are still in demand. The growing interest in nanopharmaceuticals offers the opportunity to improve ophthalmic treatments. Besides their size, which needs to be critically monitored, nanopharmaceuticals for ophthalmic applications have to be produced under sterilized conditions. In this work, we have revised the different sterilization and depyrogenation methods for ophthalmic nanopharmaceuticals with their merits and drawbacks. The paper also describes clinical sterilization of drugs and the outcomes of inappropriate practices, while recent applications of nanopharmaceuticals for ocular drug delivery are also addressed.

Indexed as

depyrogenationeye administrationnanopharmaceuticalsocular drug deliveryophthalmic treatmentssterilization

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PMID33066555
PMCPMC7602230

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