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ArticleAdvanced therapeutics2024

Pharmacokinetics and Biodistribution of Phages and their Current Applications in Antimicrobial Therapy.

Dayeon Kang, Damayanti Bagchi, Irene A Chen

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Article in Advanced therapeutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Bacteriophage-Based Control of Methicillin-ResistantAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. Phage-Based Approaches to ChronicAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  9. Whole-body distribution of threeAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2026
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  10. Bacteriophage pharmacodynamics studied in anJAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dayeon KangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 90024 USA.
Damayanti BagchiDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 90024 USA.
Irene A ChenDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 90024 USA.

Funding

Understanding how bacteriophages affect wound ecologies and developing new tools to harness bacteria-phage interactionsDP2GM123457 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI CHEN, IRENE ANN · 2016 to 2016
$2.3M
Phage-inspired engineering and evolutionR35GM148249 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Irene Ann Chen · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM123457NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148249
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance remains a critical global health concern, necessitating the investigation of alternative therapeutic approaches. With the diminished efficacy of conventional small molecule drugs due to the emergence of highly resilient bacterial strains, there is growing interest in the potential for alternative therapeutic modalities. As naturally occurring viruses of bacteria, bacteriophage (or phage) are being re-envisioned as a platform to engineer properties that can be tailored to target specific bacterial strains and employ diverse antibacterial mechanisms. However, limited understanding of key pharmacological properties of phage is a major challenge to translating its use from preclinical to clinical settings. Here, we review modern advancements in phage-based antimicrobial therapy and discuss the in vivo pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of phage, addressing critical challenges in their application that must be overcome for successful clinical implementation.

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antibacterial therapyantimicrobial resistancebacteriophagebiodistributionphage therapypharmacokineticstoxicity

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PMID38933919
PMCPMC11198966

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