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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Nanoparticles for Targeted Brain Drug Delivery: What Do We Know?

Rúben G R Pinheiro, Ana Joyce Coutinho, Marina Pinheiro, Ana Rute Neves

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In one paragraph

Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
102citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.8field-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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 218 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Utilizing nanotechnology to diagnose and treat central nervous system disorders.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  18. Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rúben G R PinheiroLAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
Ana Joyce CoutinhoLAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9102-5382
Marina PinheiroLAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6931-1355
Ana Rute NevesLAQV, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-4262-5837
Universidade do Porto · PT

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia ARDITI-CQM_2017_011-PDGFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia DL 57/2016 - Norma transitóriaFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000011Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia PEst-OE/QUI/UI0674/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a barrier that separates the blood from the brain tissue and possesses unique characteristics that make the delivery of drugs to the brain a great challenge. To achieve this purpose, it is necessary to design strategies to allow BBB passage, in order to reach the brain and target the desired anatomic region. The use of nanomedicine has great potential to overcome this problem, since one can modify nanoparticles with strategic molecules that can interact with the BBB and induce uptake through the brain endothelial cells and consequently reach the brain tissue. This review addresses the potential of nanomedicines to treat neurological diseases by using nanoparticles specially developed to cross the BBB.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrainDrug CarriersHumansNanoparticlesNeurodegenerative DiseasesPharmaceutical PreparationsPharmacokineticsDrug CarriersPharmaceutical PreparationsAlzheimer’s diseasedrug deliverydrug targetingneurodegenerative diseasesParkinson’s disease

Identifiers

PMID34769082
PMCPMC8584083
OpenAlexW3210931446

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Registered trials

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