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ArticlePharmaceutics2021

Re-Assessing PK/PD Issues for Oral Protein and Peptide Delivery.

Randall J Mrsny, Tahir A Mahmood

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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 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Therapeutic peptides and proteins: Status and developments in drug delivery.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2026
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  3. Article
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  5. Localised Delivery of Macromolecules to the Large Intestine: Translation to Clinical Trials.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Randall J MrsnyDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
Tahir A MahmoodApplied Molecular Transport Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
University of Bath · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to a lack of safe and effective oral delivery strategies for most protein and peptide therapeutics, pharmaceutical drug developers have focused on parenteral routes to administer these agents. Recent advances in delivery technologies have now shown clinical validation for a few of these biopharmaceuticals following oral administration. While these initial opportunities have provided more than just a glimmer of hope within the industry, there are important aspects of oral biopharmaceutical delivery that do not completely align with pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters and pharmacodynamics (PD) outcomes that have been learned from parenteral administrations. This commentary examines some of these issues with the goal of presenting a rationale for re-assessing methods, models, and success criteria to better measure oral protein or peptide delivery outcomes related to PK/PD events.

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hepatic portal vasculatureoral biopharmaceutical deliverypharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

Identifiers

PMID34371698
PMCPMC8309183
OpenAlexW3184370541

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