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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology2022

Exploring the applications of hyaluronic acid-based nanoparticles for diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infections.

Mahir Mohammed, Nikita Devnarain, Eman Elhassan, Thirumala Govender

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mahir MohammedDiscipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8248-834X
Nikita DevnarainDiscipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9538-4611
Eman ElhassanDiscipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-1238-2870
Thirumala GovenderDiscipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4968-4779
University of KwaZulu-Natal · ZAUniversity of Khartoum · SD

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hyaluronic acid (HA) has become a topic of significant interest in drug delivery research due to its excellent properties, including biosafety, biodegradability, and nonimmunogenicity. Moreover, due to its ease of modification, HA can be used to prepare several HA-based nanosystems using various approaches. These approaches involve conjugating/grafting of hydrophobic moieties, polyelectrolytes complexation with cationic polymers, or surface modification of various nanoparticles using HA. These nanoparticles are able to selectively deliver antibacterial drugs or diagnostic molecules into the site of infections. In addition, HA can bind with overexpressed cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44) receptors in macrophages and also can be degraded by a family of enzymes called hyaluronidase (HAase) to release drugs or molecules. By binding with these receptors or being degraded at the infection site by HAase, HA-based nanoparticles allow enhanced and targeted antibacterial delivery. Herein, we present a comprehensive and up-to-date review that highlights various techniques of preparation of HA-based nanoparticles that have been reported in the literature. Furthermore, we also discuss and critically analyze numerous types of HA-based nanoparticles that have been employed in antibacterial delivery to date. This article offers a critical overview of the potential of HA-based nanoparticles to overcome the challenges of conventional antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial infections. Moreover, this review identifies further avenues of research for developing multifunctional and biomimetic HA-based nanoparticles for the treatment, prevention, and/or detection of pathogenic bacteria. This article is categorized under: Therapeutic Approaches and Drug Discovery > Nanomedicine for Infectious Disease Nanotechnology Approaches to Biology > Nanoscale Systems in Biology Therapeutic Approaches and Drug Discovery > Emerging Technologies.

Indexed as

Bacterial InfectionsNanoparticlesAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrug Delivery SystemsHumansHyaluronic AcidNanomedicineAnti-Bacterial AgentsHyaluronic Acidbacterial infectiondrug conjugatehyaluronic acidsurface modificationtargeted nano-drug delivery

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PMID35485247
PMCPMC9539990
OpenAlexW4225114810

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