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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Encapsulated Escitalopram and Paroxetine Intranasal Co-Administration:

Soraia Silva, Joana Bicker, Carla Fonseca, Nuno R Ferreira, Carla Vitorino, Gilberto Alves, Amílcar Falcão, Ana Fortuna

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. 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
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 30 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Soraia SilvaLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Joana BickerLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Carla FonsecaLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Nuno R FerreiraLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Carla VitorinoLaboratory of Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Gilberto AlvesCICS-UBI-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
Amílcar FalcãoLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Ana FortunaLaboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
University of Coimbra · PTUniversity of Beira Interior · PT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Depression is a common mental disorder. Its treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is effective only in a fraction of patients, and pharmacoresistance is increasing steadily. Intranasal (IN) drug delivery to the brain stands out as a promising strategy to improve current therapeutic approaches by operating as a shuttle to overcome the blood-brain barrier. This work aimed to simultaneously administer escitalopram and paroxetine by IN route to mice. For this purpose, three nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC1, NLC2, and BorNLC) and one nanoemulsion (NE) were tested for drug loading. After their characterization, investigation of their impact on nasal cell viability and SSRI permeability assays were performed, using a human nasal RPMI 2650 cell line in air-liquid interface.

Indexed as

brainescitalopramintranasal administrationlungsparoxetinepharmacokinetics

Identifiers

PMID34925013
PMCPMC8675330
OpenAlexW3215164403

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