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Biomaterials and bioengineering tomorrow's healthcare.

Sumrita Bhat, Ashok Kumar

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Review in Biomatter. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-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

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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Human Applications.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  14. Sheathed fixation improves BASHTI technique in an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2023
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  15. Designing Silk-Based Cryogels for Biomedical Applications.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  19. Nanomaterial-Based Therapy for Wound Healing.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sumrita BhatDepartment of Biological Science and Bioengineering; Indian Institute of Technology; Kanpur, India.
Ashok KumarDepartment of Biological Science and Bioengineering; Indian Institute of Technology; Kanpur, India.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomaterials are being used for the healthcare applications from ancient times. But subsequent evolution has made them more versatile and has increased their utility. Biomaterials have revolutionized the areas like bioengineering and tissue engineering for the development of novel strategies to combat life threatening diseases. Together with biomaterials, stem cell technology is also being used to improve the existing healthcare facilities. These concepts and technologies are being used for the treatment of different diseases like cardiac failure, fractures, deep skin injuries, etc. Introduction of nanomaterials on the other hand is becoming a big hope for a better and an affordable healthcare. Technological advancements are underway for the development of continuous monitoring and regulating glucose levels by the implantation of sensor chips. Lab-on-a-chip technology is expected to modernize the diagnostics and make it more easy and regulated. Other area which can improve the tomorrow's healthcare is drug delivery. Micro-needles have the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional needles and are being studied for the delivery of drugs at different location in human body. There is a huge advancement in the area of scaffold fabrication which has improved the potentiality of tissue engineering. Most emerging scaffolds for tissue engineering are hydrogels and cryogels. Dynamic hydrogels have huge application in tissue engineering and drug delivery. Furthermore, cryogels being supermacroporous allow the attachment and proliferation of most of the mammalian cell types and have shown application in tissue engineering and bioseparation. With further developments we expect these technologies to hit the market in near future which can immensely improve the healthcare facilities.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsBiomedical EngineeringCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyDelivery of Health CareDrug Delivery SystemsGenetic TherapyHumansTissue EngineeringTissue ScaffoldsBiocompatible Materialsbiomaterialsdiagnosticshealthcarenanomaterialsthree-dimensional matrices

Identifiers

PMID23628868
PMCPMC3749281
OpenAlexW2008461814

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