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Review3 Biotech2024

Advances in functional lipid nanoparticles: from drug delivery platforms to clinical applications.

Manikandan Dhayalan, Wei Wang, S U Mohammed Riyaz, Rakshi Anuja Dinesh, Jayashree Shanmugam, Santiagu Stephen Irudayaraj, Antony Stalin, Jayant Giri, Saurav Mallik, Ruifeng Hu

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Review in 3 Biotech, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
9.1field-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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 9 institutions in 5 countries.

Manikandan Dhayalan *Department of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College & Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (Saveetha University), Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 077 India.
Wei Wang *Beidahuang Industry Group General Hospital, Harbin, 150001 China.
S U Mohammed RiyazDepartment of Prosthodontics, Saveetha Dental College & Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (Saveetha University), Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 077 India.
Rakshi Anuja DineshSchool of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072 Australia.
Jayashree ShanmugamDepartment of Biotechnology, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India.
Santiagu Stephen IrudayarajSt. Xavier's College, Maharo Dumka, Jharkhand, 814 110 India.
Antony StalinInstitute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054 China.
Jayant GiriDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, India.
Saurav MallikDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4107-6784
Ruifeng HuDepartment of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA.
Harvard University · USChulalongkorn University · THDepartment of Biotechnology · INSathyabama Institute of Science and Technology · INShenyang 242 Hospital · CNSt. Xavier's College (Autonomous)The University of Queensland · AUUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CNYashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since Doxil's first clinical approval in 1995, lipid nanoparticles have garnered great interest and shown exceptional therapeutic efficacy. It is clear from the licensure of two RNA treatments and the mRNA-COVID-19 vaccination that lipid nanoparticles have immense potential for delivering nucleic acids. The review begins with a list of lipid nanoparticle types, such as liposomes and solid lipid nanoparticles. Then it moves on to the earliest lipid nanoparticle forms, outlining how lipid is used in a variety of industries and how it is used as a versatile nanocarrier platform. Lipid nanoparticles must then be functionally modified. Various approaches have been proposed for the synthesis of lipid nanoparticles, such as High-Pressure Homogenization (HPH), microemulsion methods, solvent-based emulsification techniques, solvent injection, phase reversal, and membrane contractors. High-pressure homogenization is the most commonly used method. All of the methods listed above follow four basic steps, as depicted in the flowchart below. Out of these four steps, the process of dispersing lipids in an aqueous medium to produce liposomes is the most unpredictable step. A short outline of the characterization of lipid nanoparticles follows discussions of applications for the trapping and transporting of various small molecules. It highlights the use of rapamycin-coated lipid nanoparticles in glioblastoma and how lipid nanoparticles function as a conjugator in the delivery of anticancer-targeting nucleic acids. High biocompatibility, ease of production, scalability, non-toxicity, and tailored distribution are just a meager of the enticing allowances of using lipid nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicles. Due to the present constraints in drug delivery, more research is required to utterly realize the potential of lipid nanoparticles for possible clinical and therapeutic purposes.

Indexed as

BiocompatibilityLipid nanoparticlesNontoxicityNucleic acid medicationsRapamycin-coated lipidTargeted delivery

Identifiers

PMID38298556
PMCPMC10825110
OpenAlexW4391324127

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Registered trials

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