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ReviewBioactive materials2026

Glycosaminoglycans in tissue regeneration: Insights into glycobiology and their biomedical application.

Alvile Kasarinaite, Junhan Ou, Kailin Chen, Dayang Peng, Wendi Jia, Chenyang Ding, Wenwen Huang, David C Hay, Yishan Chen

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Review in Bioactive materials, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 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

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

3 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

9 authors.

Alvile KasarinaiteZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Junhan OuZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Kailin ChenZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Dayang PengZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Wendi JiaZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Chenyang DingZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Wenwen HuangZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
David C HayZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
Yishan ChenZhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Joint Institute, Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tissue regeneration is orchestrated by both intracellular signaling programs and extracellular matrix remodeling. Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are essential sugar chains ubiquitously expressed throughout the body. Their spatiotemporal turnover is an important part of normal organ biology and essential to tissue repair following injury. Glycoscience is a hot topic and is its role in organ physiology is being increasingly unraveled due to both scientific and technological advances. The mechanistic understanding of GAG regulation and manipulation is multidisciplinary effort, spanning biology, chemistry, materials science and translational medicine. This review broadly examines how GAG biology is naturally regulated and precisely controlled in health and disease, including data analysis from a stem cell-based model of liver disease. Despite being limited in types, GAGs successfully regulate complex cell and tissue level biology. We also discuss preclinical and clinical applications of GAGs, with a focus on biomaterials for tissue engineering and precision drug delivery, stressing their importance in biomedical engineering and clinical therapy. In addition, we outline state-of-art detection techniques and molecular modeling tools for analyzing GAG quantity, structure and interactions with other molecules. This review provides a timely and comprehensive overview of GAG biology highlighting their role in tissue repair and engineering, and outlines future directions for their design and next-generation therapies.

Indexed as

GlycobiologyGlycosaminoglycanTissue engineeringTissue regeneration

Identifiers

PMID41657945
PMCPMC12874447

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