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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2020

Polymeric micelles for the delivery of poorly soluble drugs: From nanoformulation to clinical approval.

Duhyeong Hwang, Jacob D Ramsey, Alexander V Kabanov

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 249 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
249citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
21.4field-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

249 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 619 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Duhyeong HwangCenter for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Jacob D RamseyCenter for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Alexander V KabanovCenter for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Laboratory of Chemical Design of Bionanomaterials, Faculty of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia. Electronic address: kabanov@email.unc.edu.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Small Animal Imaging CoreU54CA198999 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HUANG, LEAF · 2015 to 2019
$11.9M
Targeted Core Shell Nanogels for Triple Negative Breast CancerU01CA198910 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BRONICH, TATIANA K, KABANOV, ALEXANDER V · 2015 to 2019
$2.8M
Bcl-xL-regulated apoptosis in cerebellar development and medulloblastoma treatmentR01NS102627 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GERSHON, TIMOTHY · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA198910NCI NIH HHS U54 CA198999NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last three decades, polymeric micelles have emerged as a highly promising drug delivery platform for therapeutic compounds. Particularly, poorly soluble small molecules with high potency and significant toxicity were encapsulated in polymeric micelles. Polymeric micelles have shown improved pharmacokinetic profiles in preclinical animal models and enhanced efficacy with a superior safety profile for therapeutic drugs. Several polymeric micelle formulations have reached the clinical stage and are either in clinical trials or are approved for human use. This furthers interest in this field and underscores the need for additional learning of how to best design and apply these micellar carriers to improve the clinical outcomes of many drugs. In this review, we provide detailed information on polymeric micelles for the solubilization of poorly soluble small molecules in topics such as the design of block copolymers, experimental and theoretical analysis of drug encapsulation in polymeric micelles, pharmacokinetics of drugs in polymeric micelles, regulatory approval pathways of nanomedicines, and current outcomes from micelle formulations in clinical trials. We aim to describe the latest information on advanced analytical approaches for elucidating molecular interactions within the core of polymeric micelles for effective solubilization as well as for analyzing nanomedicine's pharmacokinetic profiles. Taking into account the considerations described within, academic and industrial researchers can continue to elucidate novel interactions in polymeric micelles and capitalize on their potential as drug delivery vehicles to help improve therapeutic outcomes in systemic delivery.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsMicellesAnimalsDrug CompoundingDrug InteractionsHumansNanoparticlesPharmaceutical PreparationsPolymersSolubilityMicellesPharmaceutical PreparationsPolymersActive pharmaceutical ingredientBlock copolymerClinical trialsDrugDrug deliveryPolymeric micelleSolubilization

Identifiers

PMID32980449
PMCPMC8173698
OpenAlexW3088981963

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