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ReviewStem cell reports2018

Recent Trends in Research with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Impact of Research and Use of Cell Lines in Experimental Research and Clinical Trials.

Anke Guhr, Sabine Kobold, Stefanie Seltmann, Andrea E M Seiler Wulczyn, Andreas Kurtz, Peter Löser

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Review in Stem cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Anke GuhrRobert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin 13353, Germany.
Sabine KoboldRobert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin 13353, Germany.
Stefanie SeltmannBerlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin 13353, Germany; hPSCreg, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 13353, Germany.
Andrea E M Seiler WulczynRobert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin 13353, Germany.
Andreas KurtzBerlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin 13353, Germany; hPSCreg, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 13353, Germany. Electronic address: andreas.kurtz@charite.de.
Peter LöserRobert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin 13353, Germany. Electronic address: loeserp@rki.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) research landscape is rapidly evolving. To assess possible novel trends in hPSC usage, we analyzed experimental hPSC research published from 2014 to 2016 and compared our data with those of earlier periods. The number of papers describing experimental work involving hPSCs increased further with clear differences in the scientific impact of publications from different countries. Our results confirm the leading position of US-based hPSC research, although to a lesser degree than observed previously. Our data reveal that research into human induced pluripotent stem cells alone surpassed human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research by 2015 and rapidly grew after that. We also report on continuing and even slightly growing research activities in the hESC field as well as on a generally declining rate of the generation of new hESC lines. An increasing portion of new hESC lines represents disease-specific and clinical-grade cell lines. The previously noted usage of only a few early established hESC lines in the vast majority of scientific work is sustained. We also provide a comprehensive overview on clinical trials on the basis of hPSCs. We find that the vast majority of those trials are based on hESC-derived cell products that were generated from an only limited number of relatively old cell lines.

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Stem Cell ResearchCell LineClinical Trials as TopicEmbryonic Stem CellsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsPluripotent Stem CellsPublicationscitation frequenciesclinical trialshESC lineshuman embryonic stem cellshuman induced pluripotent stem cellshuman pluripotent stem cellsimpactresearch

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PMID30033087
PMCPMC6092712

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