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ArticleExperimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)2023

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the mechanism of action, and other considerations for cell-based therapy candidates.

Arnold I Caplan

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Article in Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.), 2023. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Arnold I CaplanSkeletal Research Center, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8677-6621

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The focus of this Commentary is to introduce cell-based therapy in the context of how I believe the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) might establish criteria for the approval of clinical trials that could eventually lead to the final marketplace approval of these medically relevant, cell-based therapeutic products. It is important to emphasize that regulatory agencies have set up practices and procedures that are based on many years of evaluating pharmaceutically provided drugs. To consider cell-based therapies as single action drugs is inappropriate given the complexity of this technology. The regulatory agencies have been slowly reevaluating the criteria by which they allow clinical trials using cell-based therapies to proceed. This commentary focuses on a few key aspects of such considerations and provides suggestions for modifying the standard criteria.

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Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyPharmaceutical PreparationsUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationPharmaceutical PreparationsCell-based therapychimeric antigen receptorFDAmedicinal signaling cellsMSCsnonresponders

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PMID37632439
PMCPMC10583754

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