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ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2019

Biomaterial-guided delivery of gene vectors for targeted articular cartilage repair.

Magali Cucchiarini, Henning Madry

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Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Magali CucchiariniCentre of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University Medical Centre and Saarland University, Homburg, Germany. mmcucchiarini@hotmail.com.
Henning MadryCentre of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University Medical Centre and Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
Saarland University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Articular cartilage defects are prevalent and are potentially involved in the initiation of osteoarthritis, yet the lack of efficient therapeutic options to treat cartilage defects represents a substantial challenge. Molecular treatments that require the delivery of therapeutic gene vectors are often less effective that specific, targeted approaches, and the scientific evidence for acellular biomaterial-assisted procedures is limited. Controlled delivery of gene vectors using biocompatible materials is emerging as a novel strategy for the sustained and tuneable release of gene therapies in a spatiotemporally precise manner, thereby reducing intra-articular vector spread and possible loss of the therapeutic gene product. Controlled, biomaterial-guided delivery of gene vectors could be used to enhance intrinsic mechanisms of cartilage repair while affording protection against potentially damaging host immune responses that might counteract the gene therapy component. This Review provides an overview of advances in gene vector-loaded biomaterials for articular cartilage repair. Such systems enable the sustained release of gene therapies while maintaining transduction efficacy. Strategies that harness these properties are likely to result in improved in situ cartilage tissue regeneration that could be safely translated into clinical applications in the near future.

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AdolescentAdultAnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsCartilage, ArticularCartilage DiseasesFemaleGenetic TherapyGenetic VectorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansHydrogelsMaleModels, AnimalOsteoarthritisRabbitsBiocompatible MaterialsHydrogels

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PMID30514957
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