Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21451238›Full record

ReviewNanotechnology2011

Nanoscale tissue engineering: spatial control over cell-materials interactions.

Ian Wheeldon, Arash Farhadi, Alexander G Bick, Esmaiel Jabbari, Ali Khademhosseini

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Review in Nanotechnology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing 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

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Extracellular-Matrix-Mimetic Hydrogels by Using Nanomaterials.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  13. Surface nanocavitation of titanium modulates macrophage activity.International journal of nanomedicine · 2018
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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.

Ian WheeldonCenter for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Arash Farhadi
Alexander G Bick
Esmaiel Jabbari
Ali Khademhosseini

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
$50.0M
3D combinatorial microenvironments for effective cell based therapyR01HL099073 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KHADEMHOSSEINI, ALI, LIAO, RONGLIH · 2010 to 2013
$2.6M
Microfabricated Vascularized 3D Tissue Engineered ConstructsR01HL092836 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KHADEMHOSSEINI, ALI · 2008 to 2012
$2.4M
Microengineered environments for epithelial-mesenchymal interactions (SysCODE 7RL1DE019024 · NIDCR · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KHADEMHOSSEINI, ALI · 2007 to 2011
$1.9M
MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SCREENING STEM CELL MICROENVIRONMENTSR01EB008392 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI KHADEMHOSSEINI, ALI · 2009 to 2010
$820k
Biodegradable Self-Inductive Scaffold for Cranial RegenerationR03DE019180 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI JABBARI, ESMAIEL · 2009 to 2010
$215k
NHLBI NIH HHS HL092836NHLBI NIH HHS HL099073NIBIB NIH HHS EB008392NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB008392NIDCR NIH HHS DE019024NIDCR NIH HHS DE19180NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE019180NIDCR NIH HHS RL1 DE019024NIGMS NIH HHS 2T32GM007753-29NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells interact with the surrounding environment by making tens to hundreds of thousands of nanoscale interactions with extracellular signals and features. The goal of nanoscale tissue engineering is to harness these interactions through nanoscale biomaterials engineering in order to study and direct cellular behavior. Here, we review two- and three-dimensional (2- and 3D) nanoscale tissue engineering technologies, and provide a holistic overview of the field. Techniques that can control the average spacing and clustering of cell adhesion ligands are well established and have been highly successful in describing cell adhesion and migration in 2D. Extension of these engineering tools to 3D biomaterials has created many new hydrogel and nanofiber scaffold technologies that are being used to design in vitro experiments with more physiologically relevant conditions. Researchers are beginning to study complex cell functions in 3D. However, there is a need for biomaterials systems that provide fine control over the nanoscale presentation of bioactive ligands in 3D. Additionally, there is a need for 2- and 3D techniques that can control the nanoscale presentation of multiple bioactive ligands and that can control the temporal changes in the cellular microenvironment.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsCell AdhesionCell MovementHumansNanostructuresTissue EngineeringBiocompatible Materials

Identifiers

PMID21451238
PMCPMC3155808

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