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ReviewCureus2025

Methods for Pluripotent Stem Cell Characterization: A Narrative Review.

Fadoua Temsamani, Assia Agalit, Karima Idrissi Serhrouchni

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Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper 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

3 authors.

Fadoua TemsamaniLaboratory of Histology, Embryology and Cytogenetics, Laboratory of Life and Health Sciences Research, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tangier, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tangier, MAR.
Assia AgalitLaboratory of Histology, Embryology and Cytogenetics, Laboratory of Life and Health Sciences Research, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tangier, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tangier, MAR.
Karima Idrissi SerhrouchniLaboratory of Histology, Embryology and Cytogenetics, Laboratory of Life and Health Sciences Research, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tangier, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tangier, MAR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) have revolutionized medical research by offering significant advancements in regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery. Several research and clinical studies have successfully generated PSCs but with varying characterization methodologies. Characterization methods are crucial to guarantee the safety and efficacy of PSCs in research and therapeutic applications. Therefore, there is a need for standardization of characterization methods to ensure their quality, reproducibility, and comparability across laboratories. In this review, the authors discuss the mandatory and non-mandatory assessments used for morphological, molecular, genetic, and functional PSC characterization. We will present their advantages and limits with the aim of providing insights for assessment optimization and helping facilitate the standardization of characterization methods.

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applicationscharacterizationcharacterization methodologiespluripotent stem cells (pscs)standardization

Identifiers

PMID39944459
PMCPMC11815987

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