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ArticlePolymers2021

An Environmental Friendly Tapioca Starch-Alginate Cultured Scaffold as Biomimetic Muscle Tissue.

Che-Wei Lin, Po-Ting Wu, Kuan-Ting Liu, Yu-Jui Fan, Jiashing Yu

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Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Starch-Based Scaffolds for Cultivated Meat Production: Challenges and Perspectives.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2025
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Che-Wei LinSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 10675, Taiwan.
Po-Ting WuDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Kuan-Ting LiuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Yu-Jui FanSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 10675, Taiwan.
Jiashing YuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0782-2328
National Taiwan University · TWTaipei Medical University · TWUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan 109-2221-E-002 -101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural porous scaffolds have been studied and developed for decades in biomedical science in order to support cells with a simulated extracellular matrix in natural tissue as an ideal environment. Such three-dimensional scaffolds provide many degrees of freedom to modulate cell activity, such as porosity, pore size, mechanical strength, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. In this study, a porous, three-dimensional material of alginate incorporating tapioca starch was fabricated. A particular freeze-gelation method was applied to homogenously mix starch in the alginate, and the concentration was controllable. This pure natural composite porous scaffold was characterized physically and biologically. The synergistic functions, including biocompatibility, biodegradability, cell adhesion, and cell proliferation, were also investigated. A myogenic differentiation model further verified that the composite porous scaffold provided a suitable environment, supporting the differentiation effect in the myogenic process. The positive results demonstrated that this novel material has the potential to serve as a biomedical or clean meat appliance.

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alginatecomposite scaffoldmyogenic differentiationstarch

Identifiers

PMID34502923
PMCPMC8433989
OpenAlexW3196806602

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