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SynthesisBioscience reports2022

Neurotrophic factors combined with stem cells in the treatment of sciatic nerve injury in rats: a meta-analysis.

Kuang-Pin Liu, Wei Ma, Chun-Yan Li, Li-Yan Li

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Synthesis in Bioscience reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kuang-Pin LiuInstitute of Neuroscience, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9613-5580
Wei MaInstitute of Neuroscience, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Chun-Yan LiInstitute of Neuroscience, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
Li-Yan LiInstitute of Neuroscience, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2411-4235
Kunming Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of peripheral nerve regeneration with stem cells (SCs) alone has some limitations. For this reason, we evaluate the efficacy of neurotrophic factors combined with stem cell transplantation in the treatment of sciatic nerve injury (SNI) in rats. PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, WanFang, VIP and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were retrieved from inception to October 2021, and control experiments on neurotrophic factors combined with stem cells in the treatment of SNI in rats were searched. Nine articles and 551 rats were included in the meta-analysis. The results of meta-analysis confirmed that neurotrophic factor combined with stem cells for the treatment of SNI yielded more effective repair than normal rats with regard to sciatic nerve index, electrophysiological detection index, electron microscope observation index, and recovery rate of muscle wet weight. The conclusion is that neurotrophic factor combined with stem cells is more conducive to peripheral nerve regeneration and functional recovery than stem cells alone. However, due to the limitation of the quality of the included literature, the above conclusions need to be verified by randomized controlled experiments with higher quality and larger samples.

Indexed as

Nerve RegenerationSciatic NerveAnimalsNerve Growth FactorsRatsStem Cell TransplantationNerve Growth Factorsmeta-analysisneurotrophic factorRATsciatic nerve injurystem cells

Identifiers

PMID34897384
PMCPMC8762346
OpenAlexW4200535438

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