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ReviewRegenerative medicine2012

The role of small molecules in musculoskeletal regeneration.

Kevin W-H Lo, Keshia M Ashe, Ho Man Kan, Cato T Laurencin

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Review in Regenerative medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

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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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 97 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Next Stage Approach to Tissue Engineering Skeletal Muscle.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kevin W-H LoInstitute for Regenerative Engineering, University of Connecticut Health Center, School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.
Keshia M Ashe
Ho Man Kan
Cato T Laurencin
UConn Health · USUniversity of Connecticut · US

Funding

Engineered Regeneration of Bone through a Small Molecule Cyclic Adenosine MonophoR21AR060480 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI LAURENCIN, CATO T. · 2011 to 2012
$450k
NIAMS NIH HHS R21 AR060480NIAMS NIH HHS R21AR060480
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The uses of bone morphogenetic proteins and parathyroid hormone therapeutics are fraught with several fundamental problems, such as cost, protein stability, immunogenicity, contamination and supraphysiological dosage. These downsides may effectively limit their more universal use. Therefore, there is a clear need for alternative forms of biofactors to obviate the drawbacks of protein-based inductive factors for bone repair and regeneration. Our group has studied small molecules with the capacity to regulate osteoblast differentiation and mineralization because their inherent physical properties minimize limitations observed in protein growth factors. For instance, in general, small molecule inducers are usually more stable, highly soluble, nonimmunogenic, more affordable and require lower dosages. Small molecules with the ability to induce osteoblastic differentiation may represent the next generation of bone regenerative medicine. This review describes efforts to develop small molecule-based biofactors for induction, paying specific attention to their novel roles in bone regeneration.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMusculoskeletal SystemNeovascularization, PhysiologicOsteoclastsOsteogenesisRegenerationSmall Molecule LibrariesSmall Molecule Libraries

Identifiers

PMID22817627
PMCPMC4698169
OpenAlexW1977525640

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