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ReviewRegenerative medicine2009

Emerging concepts in engineering extracellular matrix variants for directing cell phenotype.

Ashley E Carson, Thomas H Barker

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Review in Regenerative medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Multifactorial optimization of endothelial cell growth using modular synthetic extracellular matrices.Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro · 2011
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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

2 authors.

Ashley E CarsonThe Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 313 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0535, USA.
Thomas H Barker

Funding

Research Training Program Plan on Cell and Tissue Engineering (CTEng)T32GM008433 · NIGMS · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GARCIA, ANDRES J · 1991 to 2021
$7.1M
Regulating fibrin polymerization through engineered thermo-responsive knob-pocketR21EB008463 · NIBIB · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BARKER, THOMAS HARRISON · 2008 to 2009
$421k
NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB008463NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008433NIGMS NIH HHS T32-GM008433
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Directing specific, complex cell behaviors, such as differentiation, in response to biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications is, at present, a mostly unrealized goal. To date, current technological advances have been inspired by the reductionist point of view, focused on developing simple and merely adequate environments that facilitate simple cellular adhesion. However, even if extracellular matrix (ECM)-derived peptides, such as Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD), have largely demonstrated their utility in supporting cell adhesion, their lack of biological specificity is simply not optimal for controlling more integrated processes, such as cell differentiation. These more complex cellular processes require specific integrin-signaling scaffolds and presumably synergistic integrin and growth factor-receptor signaling. This article will introduce some current efforts to engineer ECM variants that incorporate additional levels of complexity for directing greater integrin specificity and synergistic ECM growth factor signaling toward directing cell phenotype.

Indexed as

Cell AdhesionCell DifferentiationExtracellular MatrixIntegrinsRegenerative MedicineSignal TransductionTissue EngineeringIntegrins

Identifiers

PMID19580407
PMCPMC2760348

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