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ArticleMuscles, ligaments and tendons journal2012

Cell therapy: cGMP facilities and manufacturing.

Raffaella Giancola, Tiziana Bonfini, Antonio Iacone

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Article in Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  11. Stem Cell Biomarkers and Tumorigenesis in Gastric Cancer.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022
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  17. GMP-Compliant Production of Human Placenta-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Raffaella GiancolaDepartment of Transfusion Medicine, Pescara Civil Hospital, Italy.
Tiziana Bonfini
Antonio Iacone

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advanced therapies constitute one of the most complex, organizational, and regulatory areas currently approached by clinical researchers in order to explore new therapeutic applications. Basic scientists and clinicians trying to implement cell therapies into clinical practice, may feel overwhelmed by the apparently endless regulatory requirements that apply. However, regulatory agencies have primary responsibility on patient safety and law enforcement are, and should be, their main considerations. Cell- and tissue-based therapies have the potential to treat many conditions, where present conventional treatments are inadequate. The current approach to cell- and tissue-based therapy development requires using good manufacturing production facilities through master and working cell banks. Facilities need to be purpose-designed and accredited by their national medicinal regulatory body and production scientists need to work in close tandem with quality assurances and ethics committees to absolutely ensure the safety of this cellular products.

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manufacturingMSCtissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID23738304
PMCPMC3666518

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