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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2023

Engineered nanomaterials that exploit blood-brain barrier dysfunction for delivery to the brain.

Jason R Wu, Yazmin Hernandez, Katelyn F Miyasaki, Ester J Kwon

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.2field-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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Lipid and polymeric nanocarriers for siRNA delivery to the brain.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason R WuDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Yazmin HernandezDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Katelyn F MiyasakiDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Ester J KwonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States; Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, United States. Electronic address: ejkwon@ucsd.edu.
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

Nanoscale Biomaterials for Targeted Repair in Traumatic Brain InjuryDP2NS111507 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KWON, ESTER J. · 2018 to 2018
$2.4M
Training in Bioengineering Research and Technology Development in Cardiovascular in Cardiopulmonary Health and DiseaseT32HL160507 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Karen L Christman, Andrew D. McCulloch · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL160507NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS111507
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated physical and functional boundarythat tightly controls the transport of materials between the blood and the brain. There is an increasing recognition that the BBB is dysfunctional in a wide range of neurological disorders; this dysfunction can be symptomatic of the disease but can also play a role in disease etiology. BBB dysfunction can be exploited for the delivery of therapeutic nanomaterials. Forexample, there can be a transient, physical disruption of the BBB in diseases such as brain injury and stroke, which allows temporary access of nanomaterials into the brain. Physicaldisruption of the BBB through external energy sources is now being clinically pursued toincrease therapeutic delivery into the brain. In other diseases, the BBB takes on new properties that can beleveraged by delivery carriers. For instance, neuroinflammation induces the expression ofreceptors on the BBB that can be targeted by ligand-modified nanomaterials, and theendogenous homing of immune cells into the diseased brain can be hijacked for the delivery ofnanomaterials. Lastly, BBB transport pathways can be altered to increase nanomaterial transport. In this review, we will describe changes that can occur in the BBB in disease, and how these changes have been exploited by engineered nanomaterials forincreased transport into the brain.

Indexed as

NanostructuresStrokeBiological TransportBlood-Brain BarrierBrainHumansBBB dysfunctionBlood-brain barrierCancerCellular hitchhikingEndothelial cellsFocused ultrasoundNanomaterialsNeurodegenerative diseaseNeuroinflammationPermeabilityPhysicochemical propertiesReceptorsTight junctionsTranscytosisTraumatic brain injury

Identifiers

PMID37054953
PMCPMC12834260
OpenAlexW4364377365

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