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ReviewMaterials today. Bio2025

Hydrogel-forming microneedles for the treatment of skin diseases.

Yao Zhang, Haiyang Li, Guangwei Li, Yu Chen, Yibin Zeng

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Review in Materials today. Bio, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Polymeric Nanogels for Skin Applications.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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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

5 authors.

Yao ZhangDepartment of Dermatology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Haiyang LiDepartment of Dermatology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Guangwei LiKey Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
Yu ChenKey Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
Yibin ZengDepartment of Dermatology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The painless, non-invasive and highly efficient microneedle drug delivery method has received extensive attention from the medical community in recent years. Among all the microneedle technologies, the hydrogel-forming microneedle (HFM) technology demonstrates extremely promising application prospects. HFMs are composed of hydrogel-based micron-sized needle arrays that can penetrate the stratum corneum barrier of skin in a minimally invasive method and efficiently deliver drugs to the dermis layer. Compared to traditional microneedling technology with rapid drug release capability, HFMs can not only retain the drug in a biodegradable hydrogel matrix (

Indexed as

Drug sustained-releaseHydrogel-forming microneedlesHydrogelsPhotothermal therapySkin diseases

Identifiers

PMID41209701
PMCPMC12590443

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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