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ReviewInternational journal of surgery (London, England)2022

Nanoparticles in clinical trials of COVID-19: An update.

Abdur Rauf, Tareq Abu-Izneid, Anees Ahmed Khalil, Nabia Hafeez, Ahmed Olatunde, Mominur Rahman, Prabhakar Semwal, Yahya Saleh Al-Awthan, Omar Salem Bahattab, Ishaq N Khan and 2 more

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Review in International journal of surgery (London, England), 2022. 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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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.

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  4. COVID-19 Pandemic: Therapeutic Strategies and Vaccines.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  5. SARS-CoV-2 virus-like-particlesNanoscale advances · 2023
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  11. Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variants in anPolish journal of microbiology · 2022
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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

12 authors.

Abdur RaufDepartment of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Swabi, Anbar, 23430, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Electronic address: mashaljcs@yahoo.com.
Tareq Abu-IzneidPharmaceutical Sciences Department, College of Pharmacy, Al Ain University for Science and Technology, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Anees Ahmed KhalilUniversity Institute of Diet and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Nabia HafeezCenter of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar-KPK, 25120, KPK, Pakistan.
Ahmed OlatundeDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, 740272, Nigeria.
Mominur RahmanDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Daffodil International University, 1207 Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prabhakar SemwalDepartment of Life Sciences, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, 248002, Uttarakhand, India.
Yahya Saleh Al-AwthanDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Omar Salem BahattabDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Ishaq N KhanInstitute of Basic Medical Sciences Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, 25100, Pakistan.
Muhammad Arslan KhanDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Rohit SharmaDepartment of Rasa Shastra &Bhaishajya Kalpana, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India. Electronic address: rohitsharma@bhu.ac.in.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Once the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Infectious Disease-19) outbreak to be pandemic, massive efforts have been launched by researchers around the globe to combat this emerging infectious disease. Strategies that must be investigated such as expanding testing capabilities, developing effective medicines, as well as developing safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19 disease that produce long-lasting immunity to human system. Now-a-days, bio-sensing, medication delivery, imaging, and antimicrobial treatment are just a few of the medical applications for nanoparticles (NPs). Since the early 1990s, nanoparticle drug delivery methods have been employed in clinical trials. Since then, the discipline of nanomedicine has evolved in tandem with expanding technological demands to better medicinal delivery. Newer generations of NPs have emerged in recent decades that are capable of performing additional delivery tasks, allowing for therapy via novel therapeutic modalities. Many of these next generation NPs and associated products have entered clinical trials and have been approved for diverse indications in the present clinical environment. For systemic applications, NPs or nanomedicine-based drug delivery systems have substantial benefits over their non-formulated and free drug counterparts. Nanoparticle systems, for example, are capable of delivering medicines and treating parts of the body that are inaccessible to existing delivery systems. As a result, NPs medication delivery is one of the most studied preclinical and clinical systems. NPs-based vaccines delivering SARS-CoV-2 antigens will play an increasingly important role in prolonging or improving COVID-19 vaccination outcomes. This review provides insights about employing NPs-based drug delivery systems for the treatment of COVID-19 to increase the bioavailability of current drugs, reducing their toxicity, and to increase their efficiency. This article also exhibits their capability and efficacy, and highlighting the future aspects and challenges on nanoparticle products in clinical trials of COVID-19.

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COVID-19NanoparticlesClinical Trials as TopicCOVID-19 VaccinesHumansCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19Drug deliveryImmunotherapyNanoparticlesPandemicVaccines

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PMID35953020
PMCPMC9359769

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