Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40500954›Full record

ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Engineered MSC Aggregates with E/N-Cadherin and IL-6 Preconditioning for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis.

Yue Zhang, Mengyuan Qian, Yirui Shi, Jiaxu Cao, Min Xu, Xin Wen, Yunxia Yan, Sha Liu, Hongwei Chen, Shanshan Liu and 2 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
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

12 authors.

Yue ZhangDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Jiangsu University, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Mengyuan QianThe Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Science, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.
Yirui ShiDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Jiaxu CaoThe Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Science, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.
Min XuDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Xin WenDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Yunxia YanDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Sha LiuDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Hongwei ChenDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.
Shanshan LiuDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1220-8514
Jun YangThe Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Science, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.
Lingyun SunDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical College of Xuzhou Medical University, 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8563-2036

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2020YFA0710800National Natural Science Foundation of China 32071364National Natural Science Foundation of China 32371419Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province KYCX23_3768
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) transplantation is a promising therapy for systemic sclerosis (SSc) because of their distinctive antifibrotic and immunomodulatory properties. To enhance the effects of MSCs transplantation, novel engineered MSC aggregates preconditioned with human E/N-cadherin fusion protein (hE/N-cad-Fc) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) for SSc treatment are fabricated and named 3D-Cad/IL6-MSCs. These novel-engineered MSC aggregates possess tighter cellular cohesion and exhibit enhanced antiapoptotic, immunosuppressive, and proangiogenic capabilities according to transcriptomic analyses. Moreover, 3D-Cad/IL6-MSCs have improved immunoregulatory effects on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), CD4

Indexed as

CadherinsInterleukin-6Mesenchymal Stem CellsMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationScleroderma, SystemicAnimalsBleomycinDisease Models, AnimalHumansMiceMice, Inbred C57BLBleomycinCadherinsInterleukin-6aggregatescadherinIL‐6mesenchymal stromal cellssystemic sclerosis

Identifiers

PMID40500954
PMCPMC12333472

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.