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ReviewPolymers2019

Bone Repair and Regenerative Biomaterials: Towards Recapitulating the Microenvironment.

Neda Aslankoohi, Dibakar Mondal, Amin S Rizkalla, Kibret Mequanint

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In one paragraph

Review in Polymers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 72 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Neda AslankoohiSchool of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada. naslanko@uwo.ca.
Dibakar MondalDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada. dmondal2@uwo.ca.
Amin S RizkallaSchool of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada. arizkall@uwo.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-0548-3817
Kibret MequanintSchool of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada. kmequani@uwo.ca.
Western University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomaterials and tissue engineering scaffolds play a central role to repair bone defects. Although ceramic derivatives have been historically used to repair bone, hybrid materials have emerged as viable alternatives. The rationale for hybrid bone biomaterials is to recapitulate the native bone composition to which these materials are intended to replace. In addition to the mechanical and dimensional stability, bone repair scaffolds are needed to provide suitable microenvironments for cells. Therefore, scaffolds serve more than a mere structural template suggesting a need for better and interactive biomaterials. In this review article, we aim to provide a summary of the current materials used in bone tissue engineering. Due to the ever-increasing scientific publications on this topic, this review cannot be exhaustive; however, we attempted to provide readers with the latest advance without being redundant. Furthermore, every attempt is made to ensure that seminal works and significant research findings are included, with minimal bias. After a concise review of crystalline calcium phosphates and non-crystalline bioactive glasses, the remaining sections of the manuscript are focused on organic-inorganic hybrid materials.

Indexed as

bioactive organic/inorganic hybrid biomaterialsbiodegradable bioceramicsbone tissue engineeringsol-gel processstem cells

Identifiers

PMID31480693
PMCPMC6780693
OpenAlexW2971838715

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