Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17323166›Full record

ArticleJournal of materials science. Materials in medicine2007

Plasma polymer coated surfaces for serum-free culture of limbal epithelium for ocular surface disease.

Maria Notara, N A Bullett, Palavi Deshpande, David B Haddow, Sheila MacNeil, Julie T Daniels

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Article in Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Advanced therapies of skin injuries.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2015
    Review
  3. Limbal stem cell disease: Treatment and advances in technology.Saudi journal of ophthalmology : official journal of the Saudi Ophthalmological Society · 2011
    Article
  4. Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria NotaraCells for Sight Transplantation and Research Programme, Ocular Repair and Regeneration Biology Unit, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, 11-43 Bath Street, London, EC1V 9EL. m.notara@ucl.ac.uk
N A Bullett
Palavi Deshpande
David B Haddow
Sheila MacNeil
Julie T Daniels
University College London · GBUniversity of Sheffield · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The potential use of plasma polymer coatings as substrates for serum-free expansion of limbal epithelial cells was investigated. Preliminary studies using a human corneal epithelial cell line showed that acrylic acid-coated surfaces performed better than allyl amine and allyl alcohol coated surfaces in terms of cell metabolic activity and confluence as assessed using the MTT assay. Subsequently, the proliferation and maturity of primary human limbal epithelial cells in co-culture with growth arrested 3T3 fibroblasts on a range of acrylic acid plasma coated surfaces, octadiene plasma coated surfaces and tissue culture plastic was investigated using MTT and cytokeratin 3 immunostaining. The cells performed better in the presence of serum on all surfaces. However, the acrylic acid coated surfaces successfully sustained a serum-free fibroblast/epithelial cell co-culture. The metabolic activity of the epithelial cells was superior on the acrylic acid coated surfaces than on tissue culture plastic in serum-free conditions and their levels of differentiation were not significantly higher than in the presence of serum. These results suggest that these surfaces can be used successfully for the serum-free expansion of human limbal epithelial cells.

Indexed as

3T3 CellsAbsorptionAcrylatesAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesCoated Materials, BiocompatibleCorneal DiseasesCrystallizationCulture Media, Serum-FreeEpithelium, CornealHot TemperatureMaterials TestingMiceParticle SizePorositySurface PropertiesAcrylatesacrylic acidCoated Materials, BiocompatibleCulture Media, Serum-Free

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PMID17323166
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