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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2024

Mechanoresponsive Drug Release from a Flexible, Tissue-Adherent, Hybrid Hydrogel Actuator.

Keegan Mendez, William Whyte, Benjamin R Freedman, Yiling Fan, Claudia E Varela, Manisha Singh, Juan C Cintron-Cruz, Sandra E Rothenbücher, Jianyu Li, David J Mooney and 1 more

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 53 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

11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Keegan MendezInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 01239, USA.
William WhyteInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 01239, USA.
Benjamin R FreedmanJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 01238, USA.
Yiling FanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Claudia E VarelaInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 01239, USA.
Manisha SinghInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 01239, USA.
Juan C Cintron-CruzJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 01238, USA.
Sandra E RothenbücherInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 01239, USA.
Jianyu LiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C3, Canada.
David J MooneyJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 01238, USA.
Ellen T RocheInstitute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 01239, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8952-2993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USHarvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology · USHarvard University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USMcGill University · CA

Funding

MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TRAINING IN CARDIOLOGYT32HL007208 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Patrick Thomas Ellinor, David E Sosnovik · 1985 to 2026
$16.1M
ENGINEERING SKELETAL MUSCLE WITH BIODEGRADABLE HYDROGELSR01DE013349 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOONEY, DAVID J · 2000 to 2022
$9.3M
Supplement Multifunctional Tough Adhesive Hydrogels to Recruit, Expand, and Deliver Tendon Cells During Aging and InjuryR00AG065495 · NIA · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Benjamin Ross Freedman · 2023 to 2026
$842k
Multifunctional tough adhesive hydrogels to recruit, expand, and deliver tendoncells during aging and injuryK99AG065495 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI FREEDMAN, BENJAMIN ROSS · 2020 to 2022
$341k
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007208NIA NIH HHS K99 AG065495NIA NIH HHS R00 AG065495NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE013349NIH/NIA K99AG065495NIH/NIDCR 5R01DE013349NIH under 5T32HL007208-45
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft robotic technologies for therapeutic biomedical applications require conformal and atraumatic tissue coupling that is amenable to dynamic loading for effective drug delivery or tissue stimulation. This intimate and sustained contact offers vast therapeutic opportunities for localized drug release. Herein, a new class of hybrid hydrogel actuator (HHA) that facilitates enhanced drug delivery is introduced. The multi-material soft actuator can elicit a tunable mechanoresponsive release of charged drug from its alginate/acrylamide hydrogel layer with temporal control. Dosing control parameters include actuation magnitude, frequency, and duration. The actuator can safely adhere to tissue via a flexible, drug-permeable adhesive bond that can withstand dynamic device actuation. Conformal adhesion of the hybrid hydrogel actuator to tissue leads to improved mechanoresponsive spatial delivery of the drug. Future integration of this hybrid hydrogel actuator with other soft robotic assistive technologies can enable a synergistic, multi-pronged treatment approach for the treatment of disease.

Indexed as

AlginatesDrug LiberationHydrogelsAcrylamideAnimalsDrug Delivery SystemsRoboticsAcrylamideAlginatesHydrogelsdrug deliverysoft robotic drug deliverytough adhesivestough gels

Identifiers

PMID37310046
PMCPMC12172017
OpenAlexW4380422444

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