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ArticleJournal of tissue engineering

Intramuscular injection of skeletal muscle derived extracellular matrix mitigates denervation atrophy after sciatic nerve transection.

Benjamin K Schilling, Jocelyn S Baker, Chiaki Komatsu, Kacey G Marra

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Article in Journal of tissue engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Benjamin K SchillingDepartment of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5509-0803
Jocelyn S BakerDepartment of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Chiaki KomatsuDepartment of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Kacey G MarraDepartment of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8437-4864

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral nerve injury and the associated muscle atrophy has an estimated annual healthcare burden of $150 billion dollars in the United States. When considering the total annual health-related spending of $3.5 trillion, these pathologies alone occupy about 4.3%. The prevalence of these ailments is rooted, at least in part, in the lack of specific preventative therapies that can be administered to muscle while it remains in the denervated state. To address this, skeletal muscle-derived ECM (skECM) was injected directly in denervated muscle with postoperative analysis performed at 20 weeks, including gait analysis, force production, cytokine quantification, and histological analysis. skECM was shown to be superior against non-injected muscle controls showing no difference in contraction force to uninjured muscle at 20 weeks. Cytokines IL-1β, IL-18, and IFNγ appeared to mediate regeneration with statistical regression implicating these cytokines as strong predictors of muscle contraction, showing significant linear correlation.

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FDA regulationinflammatory cytokineslinear correlation and regressionmuscle atrophyPeripheral nerve injuryskeletal muscle extracellular matrix

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PMID34567507
PMCPMC8458676

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