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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2019

Mario A Torres-Acosta, Richard P Harrison, Elizabeth Csaszar, Marco Rito-Palomares, Marion E G Brunck

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Immobilization of Growth Factors for Cell Therapy Manufacturing.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mario A Torres-AcostaCentro de Biotecnología FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Richard P HarrisonCentre for Biological Engineering, Holywell Park, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.
Elizabeth CsaszarCentre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Marco Rito-PalomaresEscuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Marion E G BrunckCentro de Biotecnología FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutropenia is a common side-effect of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) chemotherapy characterized by a critical drop in neutrophil blood concentration. Neutropenic patients are prone to infections, experience poorer clinical outcomes, and require expensive medical care. Although transfusions of donor neutrophils are a logical solution to neutropenia, this approach has not gained clinical traction, primarily due to challenges associated with obtaining sufficiently large numbers of neutrophils from donors whilst logistically managing their extremely short shelf-life. A protocol has been developed that produces clinical-scale quantities of neutrophils from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) in 10 L single-use bioreactors (1). This strategy could be used to mass produce neutrophils and generate sufficient cell numbers to allow decisive clinical trials of neutrophil transfusion. We present a bioprocess model for neutrophil production at relevant clinical-scale. We evaluated two production scenarios, and the impact on cost of goods (COG) of multiple model parameters including cell yield, materials costs, and process duration. The most significant contributors to cost were consumables and raw materials, including the cost of procuring HSPC-containing umbilical cord blood. The model indicates that the most cost-efficient culture volume (batch size) is ~100 L in a single bioreactor. This study serves as a framework for decision-making and optimization strategies when contemplating the production of clinical quantities of cells for allogeneic therapy.

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acute myeloid leukemiabioprocess modelingcost of goodseconomic analysisgranulocytes transfusionneutrophils

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PMID30881955
PMCPMC6405517

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