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ReviewPharmaceutics2023

Acoustically-Activated Liposomal Nanocarriers to Mitigate the Side Effects of Conventional Chemotherapy with a Focus on Emulsion-Liposomes.

Mah Noor Zafar, Waad H Abuwatfa, Ghaleb A Husseini

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 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

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Role of Liposomes in the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Comprehensive Review.Central nervous system agents in medicinal chemistry · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mah Noor ZafarBiomedical Engineering Program, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 26666, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-7489-3580
Waad H AbuwatfaDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 26666, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-2424-1736
Ghaleb A HusseiniDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 26666, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-7244-3105

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To improve currently available cancer treatments, nanomaterials are employed as smart drug delivery vehicles that can be engineered to locally target cancer cells and respond to stimuli. Nanocarriers can entrap chemotherapeutic drugs and deliver them to the diseased site, reducing the side effects associated with the systemic administration of conventional anticancer drugs. Upon accumulation in the tumor cells, the nanocarriers need to be potentiated to release their therapeutic cargo. Stimulation can be through endogenous or exogenous modalities, such as temperature, electromagnetic irradiation, ultrasound (US), pH, or enzymes. This review discusses the acoustic stimulation of different sonosensitive liposomal formulations. Emulsion liposomes, or eLiposomes, are liposomes encapsulating phase-changing nanoemulsion droplets, which promote acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) upon sonication. This gives eLiposomes the advantage of delivering the encapsulated drug at low intensities and short exposure times relative to liposomes. Other formulations integrating microbubbles and nanobubbles are also discussed.

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drug-deliveryeLiposomesemulsion liposomesultrasound

Identifiers

PMID36839744
PMCPMC9963571

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