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ReviewSeminars in reproductive medicine2020

Physiomimetic Models of Adenomyosis.

Juan S Gnecco, Alex T Brown, Ellen L Kan, Lauren Baugh, Clara Ives, Megan Loring, Linda G Griffith

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Review in Seminars in reproductive medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Establishing 3D Endometrial Organoids from the Mouse Uterus.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2023
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  12. Strategies for modelling endometrial diseases.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Juan S GneccoCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Alex T BrownCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ellen L KanCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lauren BaughCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Clara IvesCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Megan LoringCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Linda G GriffithCenter for Gynepathology Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Funding

TRAINING GRANTS IN ENVIROMENTAL TOXICOLOGYT32ES007020 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ESSIGMANN, JOHN M · 1985 to 2024
$13.1M
Microvascular Permeability, Inflammation, and Lesion Physiology in Endometriosis: A Microphysiological Systems ApproachU01EB029132 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GRIFFITH, LINDA G · 2019 to 2023
$2.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB029132NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adenomyosis remains an enigmatic disease in the clinical and research communities. The high prevalence, diversity of morphological and symptomatic presentations, array of potential etiological explanations, and variable response to existing interventions suggest that different subgroups of patients with distinguishable mechanistic drivers of disease may exist. These factors, combined with the weak links to genetic predisposition, make the entire spectrum of the human condition challenging to model in animals. Here, after an overview of current approaches, a vision for applying physiomimetic modeling to adenomyosis is presented. Physiomimetics combines a system's biology analysis of patient populations to generate hypotheses about mechanistic bases for stratification with in vitro patient avatars to test these hypotheses. A substantial foundation for three-dimensional (3D) tissue engineering of adenomyosis lesions exists in several disparate areas: epithelial organoid technology; synthetic biomaterials matrices for epithelial-stromal coculture; smooth muscle 3D tissue engineering; and microvascular tissue engineering. These approaches can potentially be combined with microfluidic platform technologies to model the lesion microenvironment and can potentially be coupled to other microorgan systems to examine systemic effects. In vitro patient-derived models are constructed to answer specific questions leading to target identification and validation in a manner that informs preclinical research and ultimately clinical trial design.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalAdenomyosisEndometriumFemaleHumansMyometriumTissue Engineering

Identifiers

PMID33176387
PMCPMC7803459

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