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ReviewBioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy2024

Stem Cells and Stem Cell-Derived Factors for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease with a Particular Focus on Perianal Fistulizing Disease: A Minireview on Future Perspectives.

Amy L Lightner, Peter M Irving, Graham M Lord, Aline Betancourt

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Review in BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

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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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Amy L LightnerSurgery, Scripps Clinic, 10667 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA. alightner@scripps.edu.
Peter M IrvingGuy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
Graham M LordUniversity of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Aline BetancourtVitabolus Inc, San Diego, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease remains a difficult disease to effectively treat, especially fistulizing Crohn's disease. Perianal fistulas in the setting of Crohn's disease remain an area of unmet need with significant morbidity in this patient population. Up to one third of Crohn's patients will have perianal fistulizing disease and current medical and surgical interventions are of limited efficacy. Thus, most patients experience significant morbidity, narcotic use, and loss of employment and end up with multiple surgical interventions. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have shown efficacy in phase 3 clinical trials, but considerable infrastructure challenges make MSCs limited with regard to scalability in clinical practice. Extracellular vesicles, being derived from MSCs and capturing the secretome functionality of MSCs, offer similar physiological utility regarding mechanism, while also providing an off the shelf regenerative medicine product that could be widely used in daily clinical practice.

Indexed as

Mesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationRectal FistulaAnimalsCrohn DiseaseExtracellular VesiclesHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMesenchymal Stem CellsRegenerative MedicineStem Cell Transplantation

Identifiers

PMID38914783
PMCPMC11247053

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