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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2019

Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVECs) Co-Culture with Osteogenic Cells: From Molecular Communication to Engineering Prevascularised Bone Grafts.

Ievgeniia Kocherova, Artur Bryja, Paul Mozdziak, Ana Angelova Volponi, Marta Dyszkiewicz-Konwińska, Hanna Piotrowska-Kempisty, Paweł Antosik, Dorota Bukowska, Małgorzata Bruska, Dariusz Iżycki and 3 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
74citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

74 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 131 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

13 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Ievgeniia KocherovaDepartment of Anatomy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-781 Poznań, Poland. kocherova.evgenia@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2561-9750
Artur BryjaDepartment of Anatomy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-781 Poznań, Poland. abryja@ump.edu.pl.ORCID 0000-0002-4338-8119
Paul MozdziakGraduate Physiology Program, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7608/321 Scott Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. pemozdzi@ncsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1575-3123
Ana Angelova VolponiCentre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Dental Institute, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK. ana.angelova@kcl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-5661-0807
Marta Dyszkiewicz-KonwińskaDepartment of Anatomy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-781 Poznań, Poland. m.dyszkiewicz@ump.edu.pl.ORCID 0000-0002-8069-9004
Hanna Piotrowska-KempistyDepartment of Toxicology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-631 Poznań, Poland. hpiotrow@ump.edu.pl.
Paweł AntosikVeterinary Center, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, 87-100 Toruń, Poland. pantosik@umk.pl.
Dorota BukowskaVeterinary Center, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, 87-100 Toruń, Poland. dbukowska@umk.pl.
Małgorzata BruskaDepartment of Anatomy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-781 Poznań, Poland. mbruska@ump.edu.pl.
Dariusz IżyckiDepartment of Cancer Immunology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Garbary 15 St., 61-866 Poznań, Poland. dmizy@ump.edu.pl.
Maciej ZabelDivision of Histology and Embryology, Department of Human Morphology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland. mazab@ump.edu.pl.
Michał NowickiDepartment of Histology and Embryology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-781 Poznan, Poland. mnowicki@ump.edu.pl.ORCID 0000-0002-7265-8181
Bartosz KempistyDepartment of Anatomy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-781 Poznań, Poland. bkempisty@ump.edu.pl.
Poznan University of Medical Sciences · PLNicolaus Copernicus University · PLKing's College London · GBNorth Carolina State University · USWroclaw Medical University · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The repair of bone defects caused by trauma, infection or tumor resection is a major clinical orthopedic challenge. The application of bone grafts in orthopedic procedures is associated with a problem of inadequate vascularization in the initial phase after implantation. Meanwhile, the survival of cells within the implanted graft and its integration with the host tissue is strongly dependent on nutrient and gaseous exchange, as well as waste product removal, which are effectuated by blood microcirculation. In the bone tissue, the vasculature also delivers the calcium and phosphate indispensable for the mineralization process. The critical role of vascularization for bone healing and function, led the researchers to the idea of generating a capillary-like network within the bone graft in vitro, which could allow increasing the cell survival and graft integration with a host tissue. New strategies for engineering pre-vascularized bone grafts, that apply the co-culture of endothelial and bone-forming cells, have recently gained interest. However, engineering of metabolically active graft, containing two types of cells requires deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms of interaction between these cells. The present review focuses on the best-characterized endothelial cells-human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs)-attempting to estimate whether the co-culture approach, using these cells, could bring us closer to development and possible clinical application of prevascularized bone grafts.

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and prevascularizationco-culturehuman umbilical vein endothelial cellsmesenchymal stem cellsosteoblasts

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PMID31623330
PMCPMC6832897
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