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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2019

Specifications for Innovative, Enabling Biomaterials Based on the Principles of Biocompatibility Mechanisms.

David F Williams

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Biomaterials as a Vital Frontier for Stem Cell-Based Tissue Regeneration.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  12. Biofilm Formation on Dental Implant Biomaterials byMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David F WilliamsWake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In any engineering discipline, whenever products are designed, manufactured and ultimately utilized for the benefits of society, a series of specifications for the product are defined, and maybe refined, in order that they perform as effectively as possible, with due attention being paid to the safety, and economic aspects. These specifications are established with respect to all of the relevant properties, including those determined by mechanical, physical, chemical, manufacturing and environmental conditions, and the resulting design and materials selection reflects the optimal balance. In areas of medical technology, these specifications should be based on both functionality, which determines whether a device can actually perform as intended, and biocompatibility, which determines how the device interacts, both acutely and chronically, with the body. Unfortunately, whilst so much progress has been made with the development of superior functionality for the treatment and diagnosis of so many disease states, this is not the same for biocompatibility, where the single most-important currently adopted specification is that the device should do no harm, which falls far short of the ideal requirement. This paper addresses the profound need for biomaterials specifications to be based on the mechanisms of biocompatibility.

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Identifiers

PMID31649926
PMCPMC6794428

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