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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2024

Revolutionizing bone defect healing: the power of mesenchymal stem cells as seeds.

Yueyao Zhang, Mengke Fan, Yingze Zhang

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yueyao Zhang *Trauma Emergency Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Mengke Fan *Trauma Emergency Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Yingze ZhangTrauma Emergency Center, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone defects can arise from trauma or pathological factors, resulting in compromised bone integrity and the loss or absence of bone tissue. As we are all aware, repairing bone defects is a core problem in bone tissue engineering. While minor bone defects can self-repair if the periosteum remains intact and normal osteogenesis occurs, significant defects or conditions such as congenital osteogenesis imperfecta present substantial challenges to self-healing. As research on mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) advances, new fields of application have emerged; however, their application in orthopedics remains one of the most established and clinically valuable directions. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the research progress regarding MSCs in the treatment of diverse bone defects. MSCs, as multipotent stem cells, offer significant advantages due to their immunomodulatory properties and ability to undergo osteogenic differentiation. The review will encompass the characteristics of MSCs within the osteogenic microenvironment and summarize the research progress of MSCs in different types of bone defects, ranging from their fundamental characteristics and animal studies to clinical applications.

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biomaterialbone defectbone microenvironmentbone tissue engineeringmesenchymal stem cells

Identifiers

PMID39497791
PMCPMC11532096

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