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ArticlePharmaceutics2023

Novel Silicone-Grafted Alginate as a Drug Delivery Scaffold: Pharmaceutical Characterization of Gliclazide-Loaded Silicone-Based Composite Microcapsules.

Ahmed Gedawy, Giuseppe Luna, Jorge Martinez, Daniel Brown, Hani Al-Salami, Crispin R Dass

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ahmed GedawyCurtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1568-5455
Giuseppe LunaCurtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia.
Jorge MartinezCurtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6007-033X
Daniel BrownCurtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6097-637X
Hani Al-SalamiCurtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0049-6969
Crispin R DassCurtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7087-7957
Curtin University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A novel gliclazide-loaded elastomeric carbohydrate pharmaceutical vehicle was successfully developed. This new siliconized alginate platform showed pseudoplastic rheology with a zeta potential ranging from (-43.8 mV to -75.5 mV). A Buchi-B390 encapsulator was employed to formulate different types of silicone-grafted alginate microcapsules loaded with gliclazide relying on the vibrational ionic gelation technology. The use of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) to crosslink the silicone elastomer (hydroxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane) of this new platform had improved the gliclazide encapsulation (>92.13% ± 0.76) of the free-flowing composite microcapsules, which showed good mechanical durability (up to 12 h in PBS pH 6.8) and promising results to sustain the drug release.

Indexed as

alginatedrug deliveryionic gelationmicrocapsulePDMSsilicone

Identifiers

PMID36839852
PMCPMC9960830
OpenAlexW4319317290

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