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ArticleMarine drugs2021

Cartilage Acidic Protein a Novel Therapeutic Factor to Improve Skin Damage Repair?

Rute Castelo Félix, Liliana Anjos, Rita Alves Costa, Sophia Letsiou, Deborah Mary Power

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Article in Marine drugs, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mechanisms and therapeutic insights from zebrafish models of wound healing.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rute Castelo FélixCentro de Ciências do Mar (CCMAR), Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology Group, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4144-3452
Liliana AnjosCentro de Ciências do Mar (CCMAR), Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology Group, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9474-522X
Rita Alves CostaCentro de Ciências do Mar (CCMAR), Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology Group, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
Sophia LetsiouLaboratory of Biochemistry, Scientific Affairs, APIVITA SA, Industrial Park of Markopoulo Mesogaias, Markopoulo Attikis, 19003 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9155-0889
Deborah Mary PowerCentro de Ciências do Mar (CCMAR), Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology Group, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-1366-0246
University of Algarve · PTShanghai Ocean University · CN

Funding

CRESC Algarve 2020 and COMPETE 2020 EMBRC.PT ALG-01-0145-FEDER-022121Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia "Norma Transitória" -DL57/2016/CP1361/CT0011Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia "Norma Transitória" -DL57/2016/CP1361/CT0020Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDB/04326/2020H2020 European Institute of Innovation and Technology 654008H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 691102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fish skin has been gaining attention due to its efficacy as a human-wound-treatment product and to identify factors promoting its enhanced action. Skin fibroblasts have a central role in maintaining skin integrity and secrete extra cellular matrix (ECM) proteins, growth factors and cytokines to rapidly repair lesions and prevent further damage or infection. The effects on scratch repair of the ubiquitous but poorly characterized ECM protein, cartilage acidic protein 1 (CRTAC1), from piscine and human sources were compared using a zebrafish SJD.1 primary fibroblast cell line. A classic in vitro cell scratch assay, immunofluorescence, biosensor and gene expression analysis were used. Our results demonstrated that the duplicate sea bass Crtac1a and Crtac1b proteins and human CRTAC-1A all promoted SJD.1 primary fibroblast migration in a classic scratch assay and in an electric cell impedance sensing assay. The immunofluorescence analysis revealed that CRTAC1 enhanced cell migration was most likely caused by actin-driven cytoskeletal changes and the cellular transcriptional response was most affected in the early stage (6 h) of scratch repair. In summary, our results suggest that CRTAC1 may be an important factor in fish skin promoting damage repair.

Indexed as

ZebrafishAnimalsAquatic OrganismsCalcium-Binding ProteinsFibroblastsHumansModels, AnimalWound HealingCalcium-Binding ProteinsCRTAC1 protein, humanelectric cell impedance sensing (ECIS)fish skin fibroblastscratch assayvertebrate CRTAC1zebrafish

Identifiers

PMID34677440
PMCPMC8536980
OpenAlexW3204303650

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Registered trials

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