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ArticlePharmaceutics2021

Elastic Bioresorbable Polymeric Capsules for Osmosis-Driven Delayed Burst Delivery of Vaccines.

Kerr D G Samson, Eleonore C L Bolle, Mariah Sarwat, Tim R Dargaville, Ferry P W Melchels

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 39% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kerr D G SamsonInstitute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6978-7401
Eleonore C L BolleInstitute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia.
Mariah SarwatInstitute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia.
Tim R DargavilleInstitute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia.
Ferry P W MelchelsInstitute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5881-837X
Queensland University of Technology · AUHeriot-Watt University · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R007616/1Royal Society of Edinburgh John Moyes Lessells travel scholarship to Kerr Samson
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-administration vaccine delivery systems are intended to improve the efficiency and efficacy of immunisation programs in both human and veterinary medicine. In this work, an osmotically triggered delayed delivery device was developed that was able to release a payload after a delay of approximately 21 days, in a consistent and reproducible manner. The device was constructed out of a flexible poly(ε-caprolactone) photo-cured network fabricated into a hollow tubular shape, which expelled approximately 10% of its total payload within 2 days after bursting. Characterisation of the factors that control the delay of release demonstrated that it was advantageous to adjust material permeability and device wall thickness over manipulation of the osmogent concentration in order to maintain reproducibility in burst delay times. The photo-cured poly(ε-caprolactone) network was shown to be fully degradable in vitro, and there was no evidence of cytotoxicity after 11 days of direct contact with primary dermal fibroblasts. This study provides strong evidence to support further development of flexible biomaterials with the aim of continuing improvement of the device burst characteristics in order to provide the greatest chance of the devices succeeding with in vivo vaccine booster delivery.

Indexed as

biodegradable polymersburst releasedelayed releaseosmosisvaccine delivery

Identifiers

PMID33807062
PMCPMC8004877
OpenAlexW3139498591

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