ArticleJournal of materials chemistry. B2026
Controlled release of bone morphogenetic protein-2 improves motor function after traumatic brain injury in a rat model.
Article in Journal of materials chemistry. B, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a life-threatening condition characterized by brain swelling within the cranial vault and commonly treated using a two-stage surgical approach. The interval between surgeries, generally spaced weeks to months, is associated with secondary neurologic complications from leaving the brain unprotected. Hydrogels may reshape TBI treatment by enabling a single-stage surgical intervention, capable of being implanted during the initial surgery, remaining flexible to accommodate brain swelling, and calibrated to regenerate bone after brain swelling has subsided. The current study evaluated the use of a pentenoate-modified hyaluronic acid (PHA) polymer with thiolated devitalized tendon (TDVT) for calvarial bone regeneration in a rat TBI model. Additionally, PHA-TDVT hydrogels encapsulating microspheres containing bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) were investigated to enhance bone regeneration. All hydrogel precursor formulations exhibited sufficient yield stress for surgical placement. The addition of TDVT to the crosslinked hydrogels increased the average compressive modulus.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.