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ReviewNeuromolecular medicine2002

Stem cell and precursor cell therapy.

Jingli Cai, Mahendra S Rao

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Review in Neuromolecular medicine, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Stem cell myths.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2008
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
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

2 authors.

Jingli CaiLaboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Mahendra S Rao

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strategies for cell replacement therapy have been guided by the success in the hematopoietic stem cell field. In this review, we discuss the basis of this success and examine whether this stem cell transplant model can be replicated in other systems where stem cell therapy is being evaluated. We conclude that identifying the most primitive stem cell and using it for transplant therapy may not be appropriate in all systems. We suggest alternative strategies such as progenitor cell replacement, inductive factors, bioengineering organs, in utero transplants, or any approach that takes advantage of the unique properties of the tissue and the stem cell type which, are more likely to provide effective functional replacement.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell Culture TechniquesEmbryonic InductionHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansNeuronsStem CellsStem Cell Transplantation

Identifiers

PMID12622402

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