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ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2014

Mesenchymal stem cells: mechanisms and role in bone regeneration.

Yunhao Qin, Junjie Guan, Changqing Zhang

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In one paragraph

Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yunhao QinShanghai Sixth People's Hospital affiliated to Department of Orthopaedic, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Junjie GuanShanghai Sixth People's Hospital affiliated to Department of Orthopaedic, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Changqing ZhangShanghai Sixth People's Hospital affiliated to Department of Orthopaedic, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stimulating bone growth and regeneration, especially in patients with delayed union or non-union of bone, is a challenge for orthopaedic surgeons. Treatments employed for bone regeneration are based on the use of cells, biomaterials and factors. Among these therapies, cell treatment with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has a number of advantages as MSCs: (1) are multipotent cells that can migrate to sites of injury; (2) are capable of suppressing the local immune response; and (3) are available in large quantities from the patients themselves. MSC therapies have been used for stimulating bone regeneration in animal models and in patients. Methods of application range from direct MSC injection, seeding MSCs on synthetic scaffolds, the use of gene-modified MSCs, and hetero-MSCs application. However, only a small number of these cell-based strategies are in clinical use, and none of these treatments has become the gold standard treatment for delayed or non-union of bone.

Indexed as

AdultBone RegenerationCell DifferentiationHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationTissue EngineeringORTHOPAEDIC & TRAUMA SURGERY

Identifiers

PMID25335795
PMCPMC4215372
OpenAlexW2116125691

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