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ReviewStem cell investigation2023

The quest for the holy grail: overcoming challenges in expanding human hematopoietic stem cells for clinical use.

Sepideh Bastani, Frank J T Staal, Kirsten Canté-Barrett

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Review in Stem cell investigation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  8. Bedside manufacturing of engineered stem cells using gene therapy foam.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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  10. Stem cell therapies in the clinic.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2025
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  12. Regulation of HSC development and function by Lin28b.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 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

3 authors.

Sepideh BastaniDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Frank J T StaalDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Kirsten Canté-BarrettDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation has been the golden standard for many hematological disorders. However, the number of HSCs obtained from several sources, including umbilical cord blood (UCB), often is insufficient for transplantation. For decades, maintaining or even expanding HSCs for therapeutic purposes has been a "holy grail" in stem cell biology. Different methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of cell expansion and enhance homing potential such as co-culture with stromal cells or treatment with specific agents. Recent progress has shown that this is starting to become feasible using serum-free and well-defined media. Some of these protocols to expand HSCs along with genetic modification have been successfully applied in clinical trials and some others are studied in preclinical and clinical studies. However, the main challenges regarding

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ex vivo expansiongene therapyHematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)NotchWnt

Identifiers

PMID37457748
PMCPMC10345135

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