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ArticleThe Journal of surgical research2024

A Scoping Review of Animal Models for Development of Abdominal Adhesion Prevention Strategies.

Samuel P Carmichael, Prafulla K Chandra, John W Vaughan, David M Kline, Edward H Ip, John B Holcomb, Anthony J Atala

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Article in The Journal of surgical research, 2024. 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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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.

  1. Cellular and molecular regulation of fibrotic postoperative abdominal adhesions.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2026
    Review
  2. A Developmental Roadmap Toward Abdominal Adhesions Prevention Technologies.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Samuel P CarmichaelDepartment of Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address: scarmich@wakehealth.edu.
Prafulla K ChandraInstitute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
John W VaughanInstitute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
David M KlineDivision of Public Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Edward H IpDivision of Public Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
John B HolcombDepartment of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Anthony J AtalaInstitute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Funding

Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001420 · NCATS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ARD, JAMY D, FOLEY, KRISTIE L · 2015 to 2023
$32.3M
Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science AwardKL2TR001421 · NCATS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MILLER, DAVID P · 2015 to 2023
$5.8M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001421NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAbdominal adhesions represent a chronic postsurgical disease without reliable prophylaxis. Animal modeling has been a cornerstone of novel therapeutic development but has not produced reliable clinical therapies for prevention of adhesive small bowel obstruction. The purpose of this scoping review is to analyze animal models for abdominal adhesion generation by key considerations of external validity (i.e., fidelity, homology, and discrimination).

methodsA literature review was performed in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews Extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. Peer-reviewed publications were included that described the development or quality assessment of experimental animal models for abdominal adhesions with inclusion of a scoring system. Studies that focused on treatment evaluation, implantation of surgical devices, models of nonsurgical etiologies for abdominal adhesions, non-in vivo modeling, and investigations involving human subjects were excluded.

resultsFour hundred and fifteen (n = 415) articles were identified by prespecified search criteria. Of these, 13 studies were included for review.

conclusionsTranslation of investigational therapeutics for abdominal adhesion prevention is dependent upon high-quality experimental animal models that reproduce the clinical adhesions seen in the operating room as a disease of the entire abdomen.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalAbdomenAnimalsHumansPostoperative ComplicationsTissue AdhesionsAbdomenAnimal modelBowel obstructionPeritoneumRegenerative medicineTissue adhesions

Identifiers

PMID39153357
PMCPMC11490394

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