Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29803938›Full record

ReviewMatrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology2018

Cartilage diseases.

Yamini Krishnan, Alan J Grodzinsky

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Review in Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 228 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
228citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
22.3field-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

228 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 424 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yamini KrishnanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Alan J GrodzinskyDepartment of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: alg@mit.edu.
IIT@MIT · US

Funding

Self-Assembling Peptides for Tissue EngineeringR01EB003805 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GRODZINSKY, ALAN J. · 2005 to 2009
$6.5M
Mucin Glycans in the Regulation of Microbial VirulenceR01EB017755 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI RIBBECK, KATHARINA · 2013 to 2022
$3.6M
Cartilage Repair Using Self Assembling Peptide ScaffoldsR01AR060331 · NIAMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GRODZINSKY, ALAN J. · 2012 to 2016
$1.7M
Cartilage-Bone-Synovium MPS: Musculoskeletal Disease Biology in SpaceUG3TR002186 · NCATS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI CIRIT, MURAT, GRODZINSKY, ALAN J. · 2017 to 2018
$1.3M
NCATS NIH HHS UG3 TR002186NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR060331NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB003805NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB017755
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hyaline cartilages, fibrocartilages and elastic cartilages play multiple roles in the human body including bearing loads in articular joints and intervertebral discs, providing joint lubrication, forming the external ears and nose, supporting the trachea, and forming the long bones during development and growth. The structure and organization of cartilage's extracellular matrix (ECM) are the primary determinants of normal function. Most diseases involving cartilage lead to dramatic changes in the ECM which can govern disease progression (e.g., in osteoarthritis), cause the main symptoms of the disease (e.g., dwarfism caused by genetically inherited mutations) or occur as collateral damage in pathological processes occurring in other nearby tissues (e.g., osteochondritis dissecans and inflammatory arthropathies). Challenges associated with cartilage diseases include poor understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis, delayed diagnoses due to the aneural nature of the tissue and drug delivery challenges due to the avascular nature of adult cartilages. This narrative review provides an overview of the clinical and pathological features as well as current treatment options available for various cartilage diseases. Late breaking advances are also described in the quest for development and delivery of effective disease modifying drugs for cartilage diseases including osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis that affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Indexed as

Cartilage, ArticularCartilage DiseasesDisease ProgressionExtracellular MatrixHumansMutationCartilageCartilage ECM-targeted drug carriersChondrocalcinosisDiseases of cartilageExtracellular matrixGenetic disorders involving cartilageGrowth plate fracturesInflammatory arthropathiesOsteoarthritisOsteochondritis dissecansPost-traumatic osteoarthritisPseudogout cartilaginous tumorsRelapsing polychondritis

Identifiers

PMID29803938
PMCPMC6146013
OpenAlexW4210995681

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