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ReviewBioMed research international2015

Design, materials, and mechanobiology of biodegradable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.

Marco A Velasco, Carlos A Narváez-Tovar, Diego A Garzón-Alvarado

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Review in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

3 authors.

Marco A VelascoStudies and Applications in Mechanical Engineering Research Group (GEAMEC), Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia.
Carlos A Narváez-TovarStudies and Applications in Mechanical Engineering Research Group (GEAMEC), Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia ; Biomimetics Laboratory and Numerical Methods and Modeling Research Group (GNUM), Instituto de Biotecnología (IBUN), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Diego A Garzón-AlvaradoBiomimetics Laboratory and Numerical Methods and Modeling Research Group (GNUM), Instituto de Biotecnología (IBUN), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A review about design, manufacture, and mechanobiology of biodegradable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering is given. First, fundamental aspects about bone tissue engineering and considerations related to scaffold design are established. Second, issues related to scaffold biomaterials and manufacturing processes are discussed. Finally, mechanobiology of bone tissue and computational models developed for simulating how bone healing occurs inside a scaffold are described.

Indexed as

Absorbable ImplantsBone SubstitutesTissue ScaffoldsAnimalsHumansTissue EngineeringBone Substitutes

Identifiers

PMID25883972
PMCPMC4391163

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