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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2024

Harnessing the Stem Cell Niche in Regenerative Medicine: Innovative Avenue to Combat Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Gordana Velikic, Dusan M Maric, Dusica L Maric, Gordana Supic, Miljan Puletic, Oliver Dulic, Danilo Vojvodic

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

7 authors.

Gordana VelikicDepartment for Research and Development, Clinic Orto MD-Parks Dr. Dragi Hospital, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0001-6870-0079
Dusan M MaricDepartment for Research and Development, Clinic Orto MD-Parks Dr. Dragi Hospital, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
Dusica L MaricDepartment of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0001-7613-6631
Gordana SupicInstitute for Medical Research, Military Medical Academy, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0003-0350-4733
Miljan PuleticFaculty of Stomatology Pancevo, University Business Academy, 26000 Pancevo, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0003-3590-1581
Oliver DulicDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
Danilo VojvodicInstitute for Medical Research, Military Medical Academy, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.ORCID 0000-0001-9308-3076

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regenerative medicine harnesses the body's innate capacity for self-repair to restore malfunctioning tissues and organs. Stem cell therapies represent a key regenerative strategy, but to effectively harness their potential necessitates a nuanced understanding of the stem cell niche. This specialized microenvironment regulates critical stem cell behaviors including quiescence, activation, differentiation, and homing. Emerging research reveals that dysfunction within endogenous neural stem cell niches contributes to neurodegenerative pathologies and impedes regeneration. Strategies such as modifying signaling pathways, or epigenetic interventions to restore niche homeostasis and signaling, hold promise for revitalizing neurogenesis and neural repair in diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Comparative studies of highly regenerative species provide evolutionary clues into niche-mediated renewal mechanisms. Leveraging endogenous bioelectric cues and crosstalk between gut, brain, and vascular niches further illuminates promising therapeutic opportunities. Emerging techniques like single-cell transcriptomics, organoids, microfluidics, artificial intelligence, in silico modeling, and transdifferentiation will continue to unravel niche complexity. By providing a comprehensive synthesis integrating diverse views on niche components, developmental transitions, and dynamics, this review unveils new layers of complexity integral to niche behavior and function, which unveil novel prospects to modulate niche function and provide revolutionary treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

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Neurodegenerative DiseasesRegenerative MedicineArtificial IntelligenceBiological EvolutionHumansStem Cell NicheAlzheimer’s diseaseartificial intelligencemorphogenetic fieldsneurodegenerative diseasesneurogenesisorganoidsParkinson’s diseaseself-regenerationstem cell nichetumorigenesis

Identifiers

PMID38256066
PMCPMC10816024

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