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ReviewAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Therapeutic Controlled Release Strategies for Human Osteoarthritis.

Dan Wang, Wei Liu, Jagadeesh K Venkatesan, Henning Madry, Magali Cucchiarini

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Review in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Dan WangCenter of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University and Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrbergerstr. Bldg 37, D-66421, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Wei LiuCenter of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University and Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrbergerstr. Bldg 37, D-66421, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Jagadeesh K VenkatesanCenter of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University and Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrbergerstr. Bldg 37, D-66421, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Henning MadryCenter of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University and Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrbergerstr. Bldg 37, D-66421, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Magali CucchiariniCenter of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University and Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrbergerstr. Bldg 37, D-66421, Homburg/Saar, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0323-8922

Funding

China Scholarship Council 201908150154China Scholarship Council 202208080231Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e.V
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteoarthritis is a progressive, irreversible debilitating whole joint disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite the availability of various options (non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments and therapy, orthobiologics, and surgical interventions), none of them can definitively cure osteoarthritis in patients. Strategies based on the controlled release of therapeutic compounds via biocompatible materials may provide powerful tools to enhance the spatiotemporal delivery, expression, and activities of the candidate agents as a means to durably manage the pathological progression of osteoarthritis in the affected joints upon convenient intra-articular (injectable) delivery while reducing their clearance, dissemination, or side effects. The goal of this review is to describe the current knowledge and advancements of controlled release to treat osteoarthritis, from basic principles to applications in vivo using therapeutic recombinant molecules and drugs and more innovatively gene sequences, providing a degree of confidence to manage the disease in patients in a close future.

Indexed as

Delayed-Action PreparationsDrug Delivery SystemsOsteoarthritisAnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsHumansBiocompatible MaterialsDelayed-Action Preparationsbiomaterialscontrolled releasedrugsgene sequencesin vivoosteoarthritisrecombinant molecules

Identifiers

PMID39506433
PMCPMC11730424

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