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ArticleNPJ Regenerative medicine2021

Personalized medicine for reconstruction of critical-size bone defects - a translational approach with customizable vascularized bone tissue.

Annika Kengelbach-Weigand, Carolina Thielen, Tobias Bäuerle, Rebekka Götzl, Thomas Gerber, Carolin Körner, Justus P Beier, Raymund E Horch, Anja M Boos

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Article in NPJ Regenerative medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 37 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Annika Kengelbach-WeigandDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery and Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany. annika.kengelbach-weigand@uk-erlangen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0583-1412
Carolina ThielenDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery and Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-0543
Tobias BäuerleInstitute of Radiology, Preclinical Imaging Platform Erlangen (PIPE), University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Rebekka GötzlDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery and Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9254-4018
Thomas GerberInstitute of Physics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
Carolin KörnerDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Science and Technology of Metals, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Justus P BeierDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery and Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Raymund E HorchDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery and Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6561-2353
Anja M BoosDepartment of Plastic and Hand Surgery and Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEUniversity of Rostock · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tissue engineering principles allow the generation of functional tissues for biomedical applications. Reconstruction of large-scale bone defects with tissue-engineered bone has still not entered the clinical routine. In the present study, a bone substitute in combination with mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) with or without growth factors BMP-2 and VEGF-A was prevascularized by an arteriovenous (AV) loop and transplanted into a critical-size tibia defect in the sheep model. With 3D imaging and immunohistochemistry, we could show that this approach is a feasible and simple alternative to the current clinical therapeutic option. This study serves as proof of concept for using large-scale transplantable, vascularized, and customizable bone, generated in a living organism for the reconstruction of load-bearing bone defects, individually tailored to the patient's needs. With this approach in personalized medicine for the reconstruction of critical-size bone defects, regeneration of parts of the human body will become possible in the near future.

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PMID34413320
PMCPMC8377075
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