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ArticleCells2020

Neural Crest-Derived Chondrocytes Isolation for Tissue Engineering in Regenerative Medicine.

Monica Salamone, Salvatrice Rigogliuso, Aldo Nicosia, Marcello Tagliavia, Simona Campora, Paolo Cinà, Carmelo Bruno, Giulio Ghersi

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Article in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Monica SalamoneAbiel s.r.l, c/o University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Salvatrice RigogliusoAbiel s.r.l, c/o University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Aldo NicosiaInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation-National Research Council (IRIB-CNR), Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1013-2862
Marcello TagliaviaInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation-National Research Council (IRIB-CNR), Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0960-2919
Simona CamporaAbiel s.r.l, c/o University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3786-6812
Paolo CinàAbiel s.r.l, c/o University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Carmelo BrunoAbiel s.r.l, c/o University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
Giulio GhersiAbiel s.r.l, c/o University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7250-9808
University of Palermo · ITInstitute for Biomedical Research and Innovation · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chondrocyte transplantation has been successfully tested and proposed as a clinical procedure aiming to repair articular cartilage defects. However, the isolation of chondrocytes and the optimization of the enzymatic digestion process, as well as their successful in vitro expansion, remain the main challenges in cartilage tissue engineering. In order to address these issues, we investigated the performance of recombinant collagenases in tissue dissociation assays with the aim of isolating chondrocytes from bovine nasal cartilage in order to establish the optimal enzyme blend to ensure the best outcomes of the overall procedure. We show, for the first time, that collagenase H activity alone is required for effective cartilage digestion, resulting in an improvement in the yield of viable cells. The extracted chondrocytes proved able to grow and activate differentiation/dedifferentiation programs, as assessed by morphological and gene expression analyses.

Indexed as

AnimalsCattleCell DifferentiationChondrocytesHumansNeural CrestRegenerative MedicineTissue Engineeringcell transplantationcollagenasesgene expression profilesnasal chondrocytestissue dissociation

Identifiers

PMID32295228
PMCPMC7226976
OpenAlexW3016782702

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