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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2015

Articular Cartilage: Structural and Developmental Intricacies and Questions.

Rebekah S Decker, Eiki Koyama, Maurizio Pacifici

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rebekah S DeckerTranslational Research Program in Pediatric Orthopaedics, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. DeckerR@chop.edu.
Eiki KoyamaTranslational Research Program in Pediatric Orthopaedics, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Maurizio PacificiTranslational Research Program in Pediatric Orthopaedics, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · US

Funding

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG AND SKELETOGENESISR01AR046000 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI IWAMOTO, MASAHIRO, PACIFICI, MAURIZIO · 1999 to 2016
$4.8M
Mechanisms of Synovial Joint FormationR01AR062908 · NIAMS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI ENOMOTO-IWAMOTO, MOTOMI, PACIFICI, MAURIZIO · 2011 to 2020
$4.5M
Mechansisms directing synovial joint morphogenesisF32AR064071 · NIAMS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI DECKER, REBEKAH STACEY · 2013 to 2015
$179k
NIAMS NIH HHS 1F32AR064071NIAMS NIH HHS AR046000NIAMS NIH HHS AR062908NIAMS NIH HHS F32 AR064071NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR046000NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR062908
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Articular cartilage has obvious and fundamental roles in joint function and body movement. Much is known about its organization, extracellular matrix, and phenotypic properties of its cells, but less is known about its developmental biology. Incipient articular cartilage in late embryos and neonates is a thin tissue with scanty matrix and small cells, while adult tissue is thick and zonal and contains large cells and abundant matrix. What remains unclear is not only how incipient articular cartilage forms, but how it then grows and matures into a functional, complex, and multifaceted structure. This review focuses on recent and exciting discoveries on the developmental biology and growth of articular cartilage, frames them within the context of classic studies, and points to lingering questions and research goals. Advances in this research area will have significant relevance to basic science, and also considerable translational value to design superior cartilage repair and regeneration strategies.

Indexed as

ChondrocytesExtracellular MatrixAnimalsCartilage, ArticularCell LineageGuided Tissue RegenerationHumansArticular cartilageExtracellular matrixJoint diseaseJoint formationLineage tracingProgenitor cells

Identifiers

PMID26408155
PMCPMC4624030
OpenAlexW1459572188

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