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ArticleBiomedical microdevices2018

Design and validation of an osteochondral bioreactor for the screening of treatments for osteoarthritis.

Derek A Nichols, Inderbir S Sondh, Steven R Little, Paolo Zunino, Riccardo Gottardi

Erratum issuedOpen access · hybridAbstract readValidation Study
In one paragraph

Article in Biomedical microdevices, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Ex Vivo Systems to Study Chondrogenic Differentiation and Cartilage Integration.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2021
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  11. Digital Manufacturing for Microfluidics.Annual review of biomedical engineering · 2019
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  12. Protocols for Culturing and Imaging a HumanMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  13. Regenerative Rehabilitation of the Musculoskeletal System.The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · 2018
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  14. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Derek A NicholsDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Inderbir S SondhDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Steven R LittleDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Paolo ZuninoDepartment of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Riccardo GottardiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. rig10@pitt.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8040-5531
University of Pittsburgh · USPolitecnico di Milano · IT

Funding

Tissue Chip Modeling of Synovial Joint Pathologies: Effects of Inflammation and Adipose-Mediated Diabetic ComplicationsUG3TR002136 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI TUAN, ROCKY S · 2017 to 2018
$2.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UG3 TR002136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bioreactors are systems that can be used to monitor the response of tissues and cells to candidate drugs. Building on the experience developed in the creation of an osteochondral bioreactor, we have designed a new 3D printed system, which allows optical access to the cells throughout testing for in line monitoring. Because of the use of 3D printing, the fluidics could be developed in the third dimension, thus maintaining the footprint of a single well of a typical 96 well plate. This new design was optimized to achieve the maximum fluid transport through the central chamber, which corresponds to optimal nutrient or drug exposure. This optimization was achieved by altering each dimension of the bioreactor fluid path. A physical model for optimized drug exposure was then created and tested.

Indexed as

BioreactorsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalEquipment DesignHumansHydrodynamicsModels, TheoreticalOsteoarthritisPrinting, Three-DimensionalSoftwareTissue EngineeringBioreactorBiphasic constructComposite tissuesComputational fluid dynamicsOsteochondral

Identifiers

PMID29445972
PMCPMC5813085
OpenAlexW2791485619

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