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ReviewIbrain2023

Therapeutic effect of umbilical cord blood cells on spinal cord injury.

Jun-Yan Zhang, Z Du Steven, Ke-Hua Liao

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Review in Ibrain, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jun-Yan ZhangDepartment of Anesthesiology Southwest Medical University Luzhou China.ORCID 0000-0001-8679-1373
Z Du StevenDepartment of Integrative Biology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison Wisconsin USA.
Ke-Hua LiaoThe Sixth People's Hospital of Chengdu Chengdu China.
Southwest Medical University · CNThe Sixth People's Hospital of Shenyang · CNUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a nervous system disease characterized by sensory and motor dysfunction, axonal apoptosis, decreased vascular density, and inflammation. At present, surgical treatment, drug treatment, and cell therapy can be used. Surgical treatment can improve motor and independent function scores, and drug treatment can promote the recovery of neurons in the spinal cord, but only improve symptoms. Complete recovery of SCI has not yet been achieved. However, the differentiation of stem cells brings hope for the treatment of SCI. Umbilical cord blood cells (UCBs) are ethically readily available and can repair neuronal damage. However, it is still unclear how they can improve symptoms and repair nerve severity. In this paper, the role of UCBs in the treatment of SCI is described in detail from different aspects such as behavior, morphology, and molecular expression changes, so as to provide new ideas and theoretical directions for future research.

Indexed as

cell therapycord blood cellsspinal cord injurytherapeutic effect

Identifiers

PMID37786552
PMCPMC10529013
OpenAlexW4367853081

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Registered trials

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