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ReviewACS nano2022

Is Graphene Shortening the Path toward Spinal Cord Regeneration?

André F Girão, María Concepcion Serrano, António Completo, Paula A A P Marques

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Review in ACS nano, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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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

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

André F GirãoCentre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro (UA), Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7282-885X
María Concepcion SerranoInstituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, Madrid, 28049, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5010-644X
António CompletoCentre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro (UA), Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-3972-8432
Paula A A P MarquesCentre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro (UA), Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-7498-452X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Along with the development of the next generation of biomedical platforms, the inclusion of graphene-based materials (GBMs) into therapeutics for spinal cord injury (SCI) has potential to nourish topmost neuroprotective and neuroregenerative strategies for enhancing neural structural and physiological recovery. In the context of SCI, contemplated as one of the most convoluted challenges of modern medicine, this review first provides an overview of its characteristics and pathophysiological features. Then, the most relevant ongoing clinical trials targeting SCI, including pharmaceutical, robotics/neuromodulation, and scaffolding approaches, are introduced and discussed in sequence with the most important insights brought by GBMs into each particular topic. The current role of these nanomaterials on restoring the spinal cord microenvironment after injury is critically contextualized, while proposing future concepts and desirable outputs for graphene-based technologies aiming to reach clinical significance for SCI.

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GraphiteSpinal Cord InjuriesSpinal Cord RegenerationHumansPharmaceutical PreparationsSpinal CordGraphitePharmaceutical Preparationsbiomaterialselectrodesglial reactiongraphenenanocarriersneural cellsneural stimulationscaffoldsspinal cord injurytissue engineering

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PMID36000717
PMCPMC9776589

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