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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020

Emerging Methods for Enhancing Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion.

Sarah W Chan, Muhammad Rizwan, Evelyn K F Yim

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020. 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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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The Role of Adenogenesis Factors in the Pathogenesis of Endometriosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  8. Advances in Manufacturing Cardiomyocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sarah W ChanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Muhammad RizwanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Evelyn K F YimDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) have great potential to revolutionize the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine as well as stem cell therapeutics. However, the end goal of using PSCs for therapeutic use remains distant due to limitations in current PSC production. Conventional methods for PSC expansion have limited potential to be scaled up to produce the number of cells required for the end-goal of therapeutic use due to xenogenic components, high cost or low efficiency. In this mini review, we explore novel methods and emerging technologies of improving PSC expansion: the use of the two-dimensional mechanobiological strategies of topography and stiffness and the use of three-dimensional (3D) expansion methods including encapsulation, microcarrier-based culture, and suspension culture. Additionally, we discuss the limitations of conventional PSC expansion methods as well as the challenges in implementing non-conventional methods.

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encapsulationmechanobiologymicrocarrierspluripotent stem cell culturestiffnesssuspensionthree-dimension (3D) culture methodstopography

Identifiers

PMID32117992
PMCPMC7033584

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