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ArticleTissue engineering. Part C, Methods2017

Yu Zhou, Daniel Lovell, Maigen Bethea, Benyam Yoseph, James Poteracki, Shay Soker, Tracy Criswell

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Article in Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Skeletal muscle alterations in Marfan syndrome: a systematic review.Journal of muscle research and cell motility · 2025
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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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yu Zhou1 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Daniel Lovell1 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maigen Bethea2 Cell Molecular & Developmental Biology, University of Alabama , Birmingham, Alabama.
Benyam Yoseph1 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
James Poteracki1 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Shay Soker1 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Tracy Criswell1 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Forest Institute · USUniversity of Alabama · US

Funding

Studies in Translational Regenerative MedicineT32EB014836 · NIBIB · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ANTHONY ATALA, Victoria Weis · 2013 to 2026
$1.7M
Integrative Training in Trauma and Regenerative MedicineT32GM099606 · NIGMS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HOTH, JAMES JASON · 2013 to 2017
$1.0M
NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB014836NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM099606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcopenia is defined as the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function due to age, and represents a major cause of disability in the elderly population. The contributing factors to the onset of sarcopenia are not well defined, but appear to involve age-dependent changes in both the tissue microenvironment and muscle progenitor cell (MPC) population. MPC transplantation has the potential to be a novel therapy for treatment of muscle dysfunction due to aging or injury, but has not shown significant clinical efficacy to date. The goal of this research was to use a rat model of skeletal muscle injury to examine the differential effects of age on MPC survival, differentiation, and tissue regeneration after transplantation. Fluorescently labeled MPCs, derived from young (YMPCs) and adult (AMPCs) donor rats, were transplanted in the injured tibialis anterior (TA) muscles of young, adult, and aged rats. Our results demonstrated that integration and maturation of YMPCs into mature myofibers were dependent on the age of the host microenvironment; whereas, the integration and maturation of AMPCs were less dependent on age and more dependent on intrinsic cellular changes. These data suggest that the age of both the host microenvironment and cells for transplantation must be considered when designing cell therapy regimens.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsBody WeightCell SurvivalFemaleFibrosisFluorescent Antibody TechniqueGreen Fluorescent ProteinsIsometric ContractionMuscle Fibers, SkeletalMuscle, SkeletalOrgan SizeRats, Inbred LewStem CellsStem Cell TransplantationGreen Fluorescent Proteinsaginginjurymuscle progenitor cellsskeletal musclestem cell therapy

Identifiers

PMID29092672
PMCPMC6112161
OpenAlexW2766978955

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