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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2023

siRNA drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer's disease.

Muhammad Imran Sajid, Fahad Sultan Sheikh, Faiza Anis, Nourina Nasim, Rachita K Sumbria, Surya M Nauli, Rakesh Kumar Tiwari

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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 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Genetic therapies for neurological diseases.Pharmacological reviews · 2026
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  6. 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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Muhammad Imran SajidDepartment of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, CA 92618, USA; Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Fahad Sultan SheikhShifa College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Faiza AnisDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nourina NasimDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Syed Baber Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 54792 Lahore, Pakistan.
Rachita K SumbriaDepartment of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, CA 92618, USA; Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92868, USA.
Surya M NauliDepartment of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, CA 92618, USA.
Rakesh Kumar TiwariDepartment of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus, Chapman University School of Pharmacy, Irvine, CA 92618, USA. Electronic address: tiwari@chapman.edu.
Chapman University · USFederal Urdu University · PKLahore University of Management Sciences · PKShifa Tameer-e-Millat University · PK

Funding

Modulation of the liver-brain axis by alcohol and its impact on Alzheimers disease pathologyR01AG072896 · NIA · KECK GRADUATE INST OF APPLIED LIFE SCIS · PI HAN, DERICK S, SUMBRIA, RACHITA · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
The roles of neuronal primary cilia in Alzheimer's diseaseR01HL147311 · NHLBI · CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY · PI ALACHKAR, AMAL, NAULI, SURYA · 2020 to 2023
$2.1M
A Brain Penetrating Bi-functional Transferrin Receptor Antibody-TNF-alpha Decoy Receptor Fusion Protein for Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG062840 · NIA · KECK GRADUATE INST OF APPLIED LIFE SCIS · PI SUMBRIA, RACHITA · 2019 to 2024
$1.9M
Development of Broad-Spectrum Cyclic Amphiphilic Peptides against Multidrug-Resistant BacteriaR41AI164997 · NIAID · AJK BIOPHARMACEUTICAL LLC · PI KAZEMINY, ASSAD, TIWARI, RAKESH K · 2022 to 2023
$597k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL147311NIAID NIH HHS R41 AI164997NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062840NIA NIH HHS R01 AG072896
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a few FDA-approved drugs that provide modest symptomatic benefits and only two FDA-approved disease-modifying treatments for AD. The advancements in understanding the causative genes and non-coding sequences at the molecular level of the pathophysiology of AD have resulted in several exciting research papers that employed small interfering RNA (siRNA)-based therapy. Although siRNA is being sought by academia and biopharma industries, several challenges still need to be addressed. We comprehensively report the latest advances in AD pathophysiology, druggable targets, ongoing clinical trials, and the siRNA-based approaches across the blood-brain barrier for addressing AD. This review describes the latest delivery systems employed to address this barrier. Critical insights and future perspectives on siRNA therapy for AD are also provided.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseNeurodegenerative DiseasesBlood-Brain BarrierDrug Delivery SystemsHumansRNA, Small InterferingRNA, Small InterferingAD modelsAlzheimer's diseaseCoding genesGene SilencingMitigation strategiesNon-coding sequencesRNAisiRNA therapeuticsTarget genes

Identifiers

PMID37353152
PMCPMC10528676
OpenAlexW4381487450

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