Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33094183›Full record

ArticleInternational journal of bioprinting2017

Andy Wen Loong Liew, And Yilei Zhang

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Article in International journal of bioprinting, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Critical Systematic Review of 3D Bioprinting in Biomedicine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Vascularization strategies in tissue engineering approaches for soft tissue repair.Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine · 2021
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  10. Cell powered biobots and more perspectives for IJB.International journal of bioprinting · 2017
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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

2 authors.

Andy Wen Loong LiewSingapore Centre for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
And Yilei ZhangSingapore Centre for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tissue-engineered products commercially available today have been limited to thin avascular tissue such as skin and cartilage. The fabrication of thicker, more complex tissue still eludes scientists today. One reason for this is the lack of effective techniques to incorporate functional vascular networks within thick tissue constructs. Vascular networks provide cells throughout the tissue with adequate oxygen and nutrients; cells located within thick un-vascularized tissue implants eventually die due to oxygen and nutrient deficiency. Vascularization has been identified as one of the key components in the field of tissue engineering. In order to fabricate biomimetic tissue which accurately recapitulates our native tissue environment,

Indexed as

cell-sheet engineeringendothelialmicrofluidicsmicropatterningvascularizationvasculogenesiswiremolding

Identifiers

PMID33094183
PMCPMC7575626

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