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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2019

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiomyopathy: Potential Mechanisms, Governing Factors, and Implications of the Heart Stem Cell Debate.

Abdelrahman Ibrahim Abushouk, Amr Muhammad Abdo Salem, Anas Saad, Ahmed M Afifi, Abdelrahman Yousry Afify, Hesham Afify, Hazem S E Salem, Esraa Ghanem, Mohamed M Abdel-Daim

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-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

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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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdelrahman Ibrahim AbushoukFaculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Amr Muhammad Abdo SalemFaculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Anas SaadFaculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Ahmed M AfifiFaculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Abdelrahman Yousry AfifySchool of Medicine, New Giza University, Giza, Egypt.
Hesham AfifyWake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Hazem S E SalemFaculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Esraa GhanemFaculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mohamed M Abdel-DaimDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.
Ain Shams University · EGAl-Azhar University · EGSuez Canal University · EGWake Forest University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decades, researchers have reported several mechanisms for doxorubicin (DOX)-induced cardiomyopathy, including oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis. Another mechanism that has been suggested is that DOX interferes with the cell cycle and induces oxidative stress in C-kit+ cells (commonly known as cardiac progenitor cells), reducing their regenerative capacity. Cardiac regeneration through enhancing the regenerative capacity of these cells or administration of other stem cells types has been the axis of several studies over the past 20 years. Several experiments revealed that local or systemic injections with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were associated with significantly improved cardiac function, ameliorated inflammatory response, and reduced myocardial fibrosis. They also showed that several factors can affect the outcome of MSC treatment for DOX cardiomyopathy, including the MSC type, dose, route, and timing of administration. However, there is growing evidence that the C-kit+ cells do not have a cardiac regenerative potential in the adult mammalian heart. Similarly, the protective mechanisms of MSCs against DOX-induced cardiomyopathy are not likely to include direct differentiation into cardiomyocytes and probably occur through paracrine secretion, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. Better understanding of the involved mechanisms and the factors governing the outcomes of MSCs therapy are essential before moving to clinical application in patients with DOX-induced cardiomyopathy.

Indexed as

anthracyclinescardiac progenitor cellscardiomyopathydoxorubicinmesenchymal stem cells

Identifiers

PMID31258475
PMCPMC6586740
OpenAlexW2953058054

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