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ArticleScientific reports2017

Multimodal imaging quality control of epithelia regenerated with cultured human donor corneal limbal epithelial stem cells.

Marco Lombardo, Sebastiano Serrao, Vanessa Barbaro, Enzo Di Iorio, Giuseppe Lombardo

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Marco LombardoFondazione G.B. Bietti IRCCS, Via Livenza 3, 00198, Roma, Italy. mlombardo@visioeng.it.
Sebastiano SerraoFondazione G.B. Bietti IRCCS, Via Livenza 3, 00198, Roma, Italy.
Vanessa BarbaroFondazione Banca degli Occhi del Veneto, Via Paccagnella 11, 30174, Zelarino (Ve), Italy.
Enzo Di IorioUniversità degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Via A. Gabelli 63, 35121, Padova, Italy.
Giuseppe LombardoConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR-IPCF, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres 37, 98158, Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9416-967X
Fondazione G.B. Bietti · ITUniversity of Padua · ITVeneto Eye Bank Foundation · ITVision Engineering (Italy) · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current imaging techniques for the characterization of differentiated corneal limbal stem cells are destructive and cannot be used in eye bank for monitoring the regenerated epithelium in culture. We presented a minimally invasive, multimodal, marker-free imaging method for the investigation of epithelia regenerated with cultured human donor corneal limbal epithelial stem cells. Two-photon fluorescence and harmonic generation signals were collected from specimens in culture and used for evaluating the structure and morphology of epithelia cultured on two different bio-scaffolds; in addition, donor human corneal tissues were used as controls. The method provided reliable information on the organization of cellular and extracellular components of biomaterial substrates and was highly sensitive to determine differences between the density packing arrangement of epithelial cells of different biomaterials without relying on inferences from exogenous labels. The present minimally invasive standardized quality control methodology can be reliably translated to eye banks and used for monitoring harvested corneal limbal stem cells growth and differentiation in bioengineered materials.

Indexed as

Cell Culture TechniquesCells, CulturedEpithelium, CornealHumansLimbus CorneaeMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonMultimodal ImagingRegenerationTissue DonorsTissue Scaffolds

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PMID28698576
PMCPMC5506064
OpenAlexW2725008433

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