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ReviewJournal of tissue engineering

Sterilization techniques for biodegradable scaffolds in tissue engineering applications.

Zheng Dai, Jennifer Ronholm, Yiping Tian, Benu Sethi, Xudong Cao

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Review in Journal of tissue engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 121 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

121 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zheng DaiDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Jennifer RonholmDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Yiping TianDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Benu SethiDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Xudong CaoDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biodegradable scaffolds have been extensively studied due to their wide applications in biomaterials and tissue engineering. However, infections associated with in vivo use of these scaffolds by different microbiological contaminants remain to be a significant challenge. This review focuses on different sterilization techniques including heat, chemical, irradiation, and other novel sterilization techniques for various biodegradable scaffolds. Comparisons of these techniques, including their sterilization mechanisms, post-sterilization effects, and sterilization efficiencies, are discussed.

Indexed as

Biodegradable scaffoldsbiomaterialssterilizationtissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID27247758
PMCPMC4874054

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