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ReviewCommunications biology2021

Building a stem cell-based primate uterus.

Sophie Bergmann, Magdalena Schindler, Clara Munger, Christopher A Penfold, Thorsten E Boroviak

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In one paragraph

Review in Communications biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Building Disease Models for Endometriosis: iPSCs as Game-Changers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  6. Stem cell models of human embryo implantation and trophoblast invasion.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2025
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  11. Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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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.

Sophie BergmannDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6018-2844
Magdalena SchindlerDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Clara MungerDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Christopher A PenfoldDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. cap76@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5823-4705
Thorsten E BoroviakDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. teb45@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8703-8949
Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_17230Wellcome Trust 206684/Z/17/ZWellcome Trust WT RG89228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The uterus is the organ for embryo implantation and fetal development. Most current models of the uterus are centred around capturing its function during later stages of pregnancy to increase the survival in pre-term births. However, in vitro models focusing on the uterine tissue itself would allow modelling of pathologies including endometriosis and uterine cancers, and open new avenues to investigate embryo implantation and human development. Motivated by these key questions, we discuss how stem cell-based uteri may be engineered from constituent cell parts, either as advanced self-organising cultures, or by controlled assembly through microfluidic and print-based technologies.

Indexed as

AnimalsEmbryo ImplantationFemaleFetal DevelopmentHumansModels, BiologicalPlacentaPregnancyPrimatesStem CellsTissue EngineeringTissue ScaffoldsUterus

Identifiers

PMID34140619
PMCPMC8211708
OpenAlexW3169579436

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Registered trials

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