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ArticleDrug delivery2022

The Port Delivery System with ranibizumab: a new paradigm for long-acting retinal drug delivery.

Shrirang V Ranade, Mark R Wieland, Tammy Tam, Jennifer C Rea, Judit Horvath, Aaron R Hieb, Weitao Jia, Lori Grace, Giulio Barteselli, Jay M Stewart

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Article in Drug delivery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
10.4field-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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Ranibizumab port delivery system for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: Current evidence and surgical considerations.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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  7. Recent advances and future challenges in nanosystems for ocular drug delivery.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2025
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  8. Investigating the feasibility of selective anti-VEGF delivery to the retina using a microinvasive approach.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2025
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  9. Drug Delivery Technologies for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  17. Seeing the Future: A Review of Ocular Therapy.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  18. Progress in Ocular Drug Delivery: Challenges and Constraints.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shrirang V RanadeGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9457-2477
Mark R WielandNorthern California Retina Vitreous Associates, San Jose, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3940-5462
Tammy TamGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8814-9165
Jennifer C ReaGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7405-6790
Judit HorvathGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5712-822X
Aaron R HiebGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5646-2819
Weitao JiaGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8336-4058
Lori GraceGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9301-0029
Giulio BarteselliGenentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0533-1135
Jay M StewartDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1054-3423
Retina Vitreous Associates of Florida · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Port Delivery System with ranibizumab (PDS) is an innovative intraocular drug delivery system designed for the continuous delivery of ranibizumab into the vitreous for 6 months and beyond. The PDS includes an ocular implant, a customized formulation of ranibizumab, and four dedicated ancillary devices for initial fill, surgical implantation, refill-exchange, and explantation, if clinically indicated. Ranibizumab is an ideal candidate for the PDS on account of its unique physicochemical stability and high solubility. Controlled release is achieved via passive diffusion through the porous release control element, which is tuned to specific drug characteristics to accomplish a therapeutic level of ranibizumab in the vitreous. To characterize drug release from the implant, release rate was measured

Indexed as

RanibizumabRetinaDrug Delivery SystemsDrug LiberationReproducibility of ResultsRanibizumabcontinuous drug deliverynAMDocular implantPort Delivery SystemRanibizumabretina

Identifiers

PMID35499315
PMCPMC9067954
OpenAlexW4225264708

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