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ReviewThe archives of bone and joint surgery2018

Current Concepts in Scaffolding for Bone Tissue Engineering.

Toktam Ghassemi, Azadeh Shahroodi, Mohammad H Ebrahimzadeh, Alireza Mousavian, Jebraeel Movaffagh, Ali Moradi

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Review in The archives of bone and joint surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 173 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
173citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
17.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

173 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 365 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toktam GhassemiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Azadeh ShahroodiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Mohammad H EbrahimzadehDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Alireza MousavianDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Jebraeel MovaffaghDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Ali MoradiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone disorders are of significant worry due to their increased prevalence in the median age. Scaffold-based bone tissue engineering holds great promise for the future of osseous defects therapies. Porous composite materials and functional coatings for metallic implants have been introduced in next generation of orthopedic medicine for tissue engineering. While osteoconductive materials such as hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate ceramics as well as some biodegradable polymers are suggested, much interest has recently focused on the use of osteoinductive materials like demineralized bone matrix or bone derivatives. However, physiochemical modifications in terms of porosity, mechanical strength, cell adhesion, biocompatibility, cell proliferation, mineralization and osteogenic differentiation are required. This paper reviews studies on bone tissue engineering from the biomaterial point of view in scaffolding.

Indexed as

Bone tissue engineeringRegenerationScaffolds

Identifiers

PMID29600260
PMCPMC5867363
OpenAlexW2791848975

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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