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ReviewPharmaceutics2021

Nanoparticle-Guided Brain Drug Delivery: Expanding the Therapeutic Approach to Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Claudia Riccardi, Filomena Napolitano, Daniela Montesarchio, Simone Sampaolo, Mariarosa Anna Beatrice Melone

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In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. 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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  14. Emerging Perspectives on Prime Editor Delivery to the Brain.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  15. Personalized, Precision Medicine to Cure Alzheimer's Dementia: Approach #1.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Claudia RiccardiDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 21, I-80126 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7182-0757
Filomena NapolitanoDepartment of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, 2nd Division of Neurology, Center for Rare Diseases and InterUniversity Center for Research in Neurosciences, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Via Sergio Pansini, 5, I-80131 Naples, Italy.
Daniela MontesarchioDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 21, I-80126 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6295-6911
Simone SampaoloDepartment of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, 2nd Division of Neurology, Center for Rare Diseases and InterUniversity Center for Research in Neurosciences, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Via Sergio Pansini, 5, I-80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1383-6638
Mariarosa Anna Beatrice MeloneDepartment of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, 2nd Division of Neurology, Center for Rare Diseases and InterUniversity Center for Research in Neurosciences, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Via Sergio Pansini, 5, I-80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7213-9277
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · IT

Funding

Fondazione Umberto Veronesi noMinistry of Economic Development F/050347/01_03/X32Regione Campania DIP. 54-DG 91 n. 403
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) represent a heterogeneous group of aging-related disorders featured by progressive impairment of motor and/or cognitive functions, often accompanied by psychiatric disorders. NDs are denoted as 'protein misfolding' diseases or proteinopathies, and are classified according to their known genetic mechanisms and/or the main protein involved in disease onset and progression. Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD) are included under this nosographic umbrella, sharing histopathologically salient features, including deposition of insoluble proteins, activation of glial cells, loss of neuronal cells and synaptic connectivity. To date, there are no effective cures or disease-modifying therapies for these NDs. Several compounds have not shown efficacy in clinical trials, since they generally fail to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB), a tightly packed layer of endothelial cells that greatly limits the brain internalization of endogenous substances. By engineering materials of a size usually within 1-100 nm, nanotechnology offers an alternative approach for promising and innovative therapeutic solutions in NDs. Nanoparticles can cross the BBB and release active molecules at target sites in the brain, minimizing side effects. This review focuses on the state-of-the-art of nanoengineered delivery systems for brain targeting in the treatment of AD, PD and HD.

Indexed as

blood–brain barrierbrain targetingdrug delivery systemsnanoformulationsneurodegenerative diseasesnose-to-brain deliverytargeted delivery

Identifiers

PMID34834311
PMCPMC8623286
OpenAlexW3211619491

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