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ReviewBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Using X-ray Diffraction Techniques for Biomimetic Drug Development, Formulation, and Polymorphic Characterization.

Israel Rodríguez, Ritika Gautam, Arthur D Tinoco

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Review in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 50 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Israel RodríguezDepartment of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, San Juan, PR 00925, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1062-301X
Ritika GautamDepartment of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India.
Arthur D TinocoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, San Juan, PR 00925, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2825-5235
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras · PRIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur · IN

Funding

Fusing the commercial drugs triapine and deferasirox to create Ti(IV) anticancer compounds that inhibit the bioavailability of ironR21CA240997 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS · PI TINOCO, ARTHUR DAVID · 2020 to 2020
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Indian Institute of Technology Inititation 2019311INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship IFA18-CH 311National Science Foundation 1231306NCI NIH HHS R21 CA240997NIH HHS 5R25GM061151-17NIH HHS 5SC1CA190504NIH HHS R21CA240997-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug development is a decades-long, multibillion dollar investment that often limits itself. To decrease the time to drug approval, efforts are focused on drug targets and drug formulation for optimal biocompatibility and efficacy. X-ray structural characterization approaches have catalyzed the drug discovery and design process. Single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) reveals important structural details and molecular interactions for the manifestation of a disease or for therapeutic effect. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) has provided a method to determine the different phases, purity, and stability of biological drug compounds that possess crystallinity. Recently, synchrotron sources have enabled wider access to the study of noncrystalline or amorphous solids. One valuable technique employed to determine atomic arrangements and local atom ordering of amorphous materials is the pair distribution function (PDF). PDF has been used in the study of amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs). ASDs are made up of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) within a drug dispersed at the molecular level in an amorphous polymeric carrier. This information is vital for appropriate formulation of a drug for stability, administration, and efficacy purposes. Natural or biomimetic products are often used as the API or the formulation agent. This review profiles the deep insights that X-ray structural techniques and associated analytical methods can offer in the development of a drug.

Indexed as

active pharmaceutical ingredientamorphous solid dispersionsdrug productsexcipientspair distribution functionX-ray crystallography

Identifiers

PMID33396786
PMCPMC7838816
OpenAlexW3114832338

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