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ReviewMicromachines2021

Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound for Bone Tissue Engineering.

Colleen McCarthy, Gulden Camci-Unal

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Alveolar Bone Regeneration: Smart Biomaterials and Physical Stimulation.Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials · 2026
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  12. [Osseointegration in amputation surgery : Representative studies].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
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  16. Advanced Piezoelectric Materials, Devices, and Systems for Orthopedic Medicine.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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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.

Colleen McCarthyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
Gulden Camci-UnalDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4258-844X
University of Massachusetts Lowell · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As explained by Wolff's law and the mechanostat hypothesis, mechanical stimulation can be used to promote bone formation. Low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) is a source of mechanical stimulation that can activate the integrin/phosphatidylinositol 3-OH kinase/Akt pathway and upregulate osteogenic proteins through the production of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and prostaglandin E

Indexed as

3D scaffoldsbone tissue engineeringLIPUSmechanotherapymechanotransduction

Identifiers

PMID34945337
PMCPMC8707172
OpenAlexW3215861602

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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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 Socratic graph.