Scientific Journal Reveiw
The abstract to the article I have chosen does accurately summarize the main findings of the article. In the abstract written by Naoto Saito and Kunio Takaoka for the article “New Synthetic Biodegradable Polymers as BMP Carriers for Bone Tissue Engineering” published in Biomaterials, an overview of the article’s topic and a brief but accurate summary of the findings was given with enough technical jargon to allow the reader to decide whether or not to continue on to reading the full article. Since an abstract is a brief technical summary of a document, I feel that Saito and Kunio succeed in accomplishing the task required of the abstract. However, the abstract could have benefited by including information about the three methods for using bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), which are cell therapy, gene therapy, and cytokine therapy. The authors used a considerable portion of the article to discuss the methods for using BMP in bone tissue engineering but didn’t refer to the three methods in the abstract. In light of the article’s main topic being on biodegradable polymers that could be used as BMP carriers and the space limitations inherent to abstracts, it was probably better
There are three methods employed when BMP is used in bone tissue engineering. Although the procedure for the experimentation and research was given, I personally could not reproduce the work that the authors performed. The article, although fairly easy to read, is geared towards an audience that has a significant amount of scientific knowledge, especially with biology, physiology, biochemistry, and organic chemistry. I was able to follow the outline procedures the authors described but I wasn’t able to grasp the underlining details to the research. The area I found to be most complex was the portion of the article that described the methods the authors took to develop the optimal version of the biodegradable carrier polymer, polylactic acid-p-dioxanone-polyethylene glycol block copolymer (PLA-DX-PEG), which produced the most significant bone growth with the least amount of complications. However, I do believe that an individual with the proper scientific background and who is knowledgeable in bioengineering would be able to reproduce the work the authors performed since the steps the authors took in their experimentation are described in the article albeit not with full detail.
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