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ReviewAdvanced healthcare materials2021

Mechanical Properties of Bioengineered Corneal Stroma.

Nello Formisano, Cas van der Putten, Rhiannon Grant, Gozde Sahin, Roman K Truckenmüller, Carlijn V C Bouten, Nicholas A Kurniawan, Stefan Giselbrecht

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Review in Advanced healthcare materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Keratin-Laden Bioink for Corneal Stroma Bioprinting.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  5. Bioinspired Tissue Transparency: Achieving Sclera-to-Cornea Transplantation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  11. Systematic review:Frontiers in medicine · 2025
    Review
  12. Corneal strain influences keratocyte proliferation and migration through upregulation of ALDH3A1 expression.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024
    Article
  13. Corneal injury repair and the potential involvement of ZEB1.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2024
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  16. [Characterization of rabbit corneal biomechanical properties after corneal refractive surgery based on rapid loading-unloading uniaxial tensile test].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2024
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  18. Animal Models in Eye Research: Focus on Corneal Pathologies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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.

Nello FormisanoDepartment of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.
Cas van der PuttenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AP, The Netherlands.
Rhiannon GrantDepartment of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.
Gozde SahinDepartment of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8712-947X
Roman K TruckenmüllerDepartment of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.
Carlijn V C BoutenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AP, The Netherlands.
Nicholas A KurniawanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AP, The Netherlands.
Stefan GiselbrechtDepartment of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 6229 ER, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1354-0167

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For the majority of patients with severe corneal injury or disease, corneal transplantation is the only suitable treatment option. Unfortunately, the demand for donor corneas greatly exceeds the availability. To overcome shortage issues, a myriad of bioengineered constructs have been developed as mimetics of the corneal stroma over the last few decades. Despite the sheer number of bioengineered stromas developed , these implants fail clinical trials exhibiting poor tissue integration and adverse effects in vivo. Such shortcomings can partially be ascribed to poor biomechanical performance. In this review, existing approaches for bioengineering corneal stromal constructs and their mechanical properties are described. The information collected in this review can be used to critically analyze the biomechanical properties of future stromal constructs, which are often overlooked, but can determine the failure or success of corresponding implants.

Indexed as

Corneal StromaCorneal TransplantationBioengineeringBiomedical EngineeringCorneaHumansTissue Engineeringbioengineeringcorneasmechanical propertiesstromal layers

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PMID34369098
PMCPMC11468718

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