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ArticleNature2023

Cartilage-like protein hydrogels engineered via entanglement.

Linglan Fu, Lan Li, Qingyuan Bian, Bin Xue, Jing Jin, Jiayu Li, Yi Cao, Qing Jiang, Hongbin Li

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Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 111 papers.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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111 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Linglan Fu *Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lan Li *State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Division of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Branch of National Clinical Research Center for Orthopedics, Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-4635-6331
Qingyuan BianDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Bin XueNational Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-0822-6501
Jing JinState Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Division of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Branch of National Clinical Research Center for Orthopedics, Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
Jiayu LiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Yi CaoNational Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-1493-7868
Qing JiangState Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Division of Sports Medicine and Adult Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Branch of National Clinical Research Center for Orthopedics, Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-2552-9686
Hongbin LiDepartment of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. hongbin@chem.ubc.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-7813-1332

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Load-bearing tissues, such as muscle and cartilage, exhibit high elasticity, high toughness and fast recovery, but have different stiffness (with cartilage being significantly stiffer than muscle)

Indexed as

Biocompatible MaterialsCartilageHydrogelsCollagenConnectinHumansProteoglycansTissue EngineeringBiocompatible MaterialsCollagenConnectinHydrogelsProteoglycansTTN protein, human

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