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ReviewExperimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)2020

Tackling rare diseases: Clinical trials on chips.

Sandra H Blumenrath, Bo Y Lee, Lucie Low, Ranjini Prithviraj, Danilo Tagle

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In one paragraph

Review in Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Tissue chips as headway model and incitement technology.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2025
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  11. Microphysiological systems: What it takes for community adoption.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2021
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  14. Organ-on-a-Chip: A New Paradigm for Drug Development.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2021
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandra H BlumenrathDrug Information Association, Washington, DC 20036, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1273-1348
Bo Y LeeNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Lucie LowNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6082-8625
Ranjini PrithvirajDrug Information Association, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
Danilo TagleNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

impact statementDesigning and conducting clinical trials are extremely difficult in rare diseases. Adapting tissue chips for rare disease therapy development is pivotal in assuring that treatments are available, especially for severe diseases that are difficult to treat. Thus far, the NCATS-led National Institutes of Health (NIH) Tissue Chip program has focused on deploying the technology towards

Indexed as

Lab-On-A-Chip DevicesAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicHumansMicrofluidicsRare DiseasesTissue Engineeringclinical trials on chipsmicrophysiological systemsrare diseasestherapy developmentTissue chips

Identifiers

PMID32397761
PMCPMC7400726
OpenAlexW3026005656

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.