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ReviewStem cells translational medicine2014

Concise review: animal substance-free human embryonic stem cells aiming at clinical applications.

Outi Hovatta, Sergey Rodin, Liselotte Antonsson, Karl Tryggvason

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Review in Stem cells translational medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Long-termAdipocyte · 2022
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  5. Developing defined substrates for stem cell culture and differentiation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018
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  7. Techniques of Human Embryonic Stem Cell and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derivation.Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis · 2016
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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

4 authors.

Outi HovattaDepartments of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore Outi.Hovatta@ki.se.
Sergey RodinDepartments of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Liselotte AntonssonDepartments of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Karl TryggvasonDepartments of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology and Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human embryonic stem cells have been considered the gold standard as a cell source for regenerative medicine since they were first cultured in 1998. They are pluripotent and can form principally all the cells types in the body. They are obtained from supernumerary human in vitro fertilization embryos that cannot be used for infertility treatment. Following studies on factors regulating pluripotency and differentiation, we now have techniques to establish and effectively expand these cells in animal substance-free conditions, even from single cells biopsied from eight-cell stage embryos in chemically defined feeder-free cultures. The genetic stability and absence of tumorigenic mutations can be determined. There are satisfactory animal tests for functionality and safety. The first clinical trials are ongoing for two indications: age-related macular degeneration and spinal cord injury.

Indexed as

Embryonic Stem CellsMacular DegenerationPluripotent Stem CellsRegenerative MedicineSpinal Cord InjuriesStem Cell TransplantationAnimalsHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansClinical translationEmbryonic stem cellsPluripotent stem cellsSerum-freeStem cell culture

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PMID25298372
PMCPMC4214851

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